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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

Cars That Think

So I wrote the article to try to get the point across: This is the way the industry is going to get things really cheap.” In 2002 Moore received a U.S. Along with his wife of 72 years, in 2000 Moore established the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation , which has donated more than US $5.1 billion to charitable causes.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

By about 2000, BYD had become one of the worlds largest manufacturers of cellphone batteries. Put simply, this little-known upstart has accelerated ahead of its much bigger rivals in the race to build an affordable electric car. we could not afford to do anything like this." "Its a completely different business model."

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