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2024 Hyundai Kona N-Line Review - A Solid Cup

The Truth About Cars

For those in the know, the area around Kona on the west coast of the big island of Hawaii is a major coffee producer, and some of the best beans in the world are grown there - though, if I’m being snobby, I generally prefer Sumatran coffees.& In lesser trims, it’s quite heavily applied, but here the styling looks reasonably tame.

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DOE to Award $106M to Six CO2 Conversion Projects; $156M in Matching Private Funding

Green Car Congress

Phycal will design, build, and operate a CO 2 -to-algae-to-biofuels facility at a nominal thirty acre site in Central O’ahu (near Wahiawa and Kapolei), Hawaii. Hawaii Electric Company will qualify the biocrude for boiler use, and Tesoro will supply CO 2 and evaluate fuel products. DOE Share: $24,243,509).

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

San Jose Mercury News ). Hermance speculates that "At the battery conference held in June in Hawaii it was said that Lithium Ion is about 3-5 years away for hybrids and another 5-8 years away to get to a rational price point." If that target is met, the largest U.S. Bloomberg News ). The truth is just the opposite. (IRV

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