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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part VI)

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But behind the layers of finance and paperwork, Guidestar GPS was developed. & In case you were curious, in 1996 Guidestar worked in California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Virginia.

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8-state alliance releases action plan to put 3.3M ZEVs on their roads by 2025

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The partner states are California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont. It also includes working with automakers and dealers to identify, evaluate, and implement creative financing approaches and other effective strategies to reduce vehicle purchase price and increase ZEV sales.

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DOE to award $11M to 20 new Clean Cities projects for alt fuel cars and trucks

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availability of transportation fuels across Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The Unlocking Private Sector Financing for Alternative Fuel Vehicles and. The project Removing Barriers, Implementing Policies and Advancing. Alternative Fuels Markets in New England will work to diversify the. 500,000.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Material is being financed and procured through the New York Power Authority. Rhode Island Public Transportation Authority – RIPTA, Rhode Island: $345,000. TIGGER will fund the labor portion of the project only. Ames Transit Agency, Iowa: $1,600,000.

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EV Tax Credit: The Guide Your Car Dealer Doesn’t Want You To Read

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EV Climate Loan: Getting the Most Out of Your EV Incentives Traditional auto lenders don’t believe EVs should be financed differently than gas-powered cars, but we do. Finance your EV for less. How to determine if you can use the EV tax credit? How our EV Climate Loan works: Pre-qualify in minutes.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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to handle the finances of the Macintosh project. After thinking about the problem for three months, Mr. Smith concluded in July 1982 that “the difference in size between this chip and the state of Rhode Island is not very great.” Mr. Jobs hired Debi Coleman , who was then working as financial manager at Hewlett-Packard Co.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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It covers ten Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont). Financing Investments and Other Public Expenditures. Allowance value can be used to finance government expenditures of various kinds.

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