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

The Truth About Cars

Guidestar was developed in conjunction with Oldsmobile engineers, the newly formed Delco Electronics (Hughes), and component supplier Zexel USA. The high-tech navigation relied on multiple hard disk cartridges rather than multiple map CDs. Can you find an Oldsmobile for sale with Guidestar intact? Let me know.

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Video Friday: Robot Arms for the ISS

Cars That Think

Unlike Sox, our robot dogs are real and for sale! Georgia Tech ] NASA’s VIPER team practiced driving the rover down Griffin’s sizeable ramps to mimic safely egressing onto the lunar surface. points and Team RoMeLa, USA came in third. The programmable robot dogs run on Arduino with the open source quadruped framework OpenCat.

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Think to resume electric car production

Green Cars News

The company continues to be backed by a very loyal group of investors, made up of some individual Norwegian investors as well as leading venture capital and clean-tech investment firms from the USA and the UK. . from the USA, Valmet Automotive from Finland and Investinor, the Norwegian Government-backed investment fund.

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Audi going to the moon; Audi lunar e-quattro rover

Green Car Congress

The key competitor teams for PT Scientists that also received milestone prizes are: Astrobotics (USA), Moon Express (USA), Hakuto (Japan) and Team Indus (India). —Luca de Meo, Audi Board Member for Sales and Marketing. The concept of a privately financed mission to the moon is fascinating.

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A 100 m.p.g. truck? A Bright IDEA | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

car when tech-savvy types can configure one in their garage by rewiring their existing hybrids. Now, of course, Bright Automotive is ready to unveil the IDEA, with the expectation it will have 50,000 ready for sale in 2013. The 100 m.p.g. mark has pretty much been the Holy Grail in the land of alternative vehicles for some time.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Breaking News Feed Chryslers first EV will be the Dodge Circuit Vectrix in trouble, may be for sale REPORT: Toyota claims 40,000 pre-orders for new Prius Cadillac Converj reportedly approved for production *UPDATED New York 2009: Mitsubishi confirms i-MiEV will come to U.S. Follow us on Twitter! 61) REPORT: Buyer perception holding back U.S.

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VIDEO: Driving a Tesla-powered Smart

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

I wish the thing was for sale as-is. Nokia cellphone batteries for example have been halved in size, which shows just how much better the tech is getting, without even getting into supercapacitors and alternate chemistry. But yes, there was no slalom to see how it handles the twisties.

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