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Give Me Mono: BAC Expanding American Dealer Network

The Truth About Cars

That’s when the boutique manufacturer introduced its North American dealer network.& & Direct sales and service were initially limited to Manhattan and Dallas. & The new stores will be located in Philadelphia, Greenwich, and Newport Beach — thanks to BAC having hooked up with RDS Automotive Group.

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Profile: Li-ion Battery and Pack Supplier Valence Technology

Green Car Congress

Two global fulfillment centers—one in Rotterdam and one in Dallas—can ship product to customers within 72 hours. The Smith website mentions that Sainsbury, a UK grocery store with on-line food ordering, aims to have 20% of their home delivery fleet electrified by 2009. The vehicle is slated to arrive at select Ford dealers in 2010.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

Generally, a multitasking operating system tracks the progress of each of the programs it is running and then stores the entire state of each program—the values of its variables, the location of the program counter, and so on. The Macintosh would have no multitasking capability but would execute only one applications program at a time.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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And in a true smart grid, electric cars will not only be able to draw on electricity to run their motors, they will also be able to do the reverse: send electricity stored in their batteries back into the grid when it is needed. “Electric vehicles could be connected to the grid and could store energy at times when too much is produced

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