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

The Truth About Cars

One could assume the touchscreen was rated more poorly since it was the most cutting edge part of the navigation process. Not to mention the ancillary systems and sensors required for each car, as well as the mandatory car phone connection. Fast forward a couple decades, and the general public loves a touchscreen.

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Ricardo Study Suggests E15 Poses Minimal Risk to MY 1994-2000 Vehicles

Green Car Congress

A study by Ricardo for the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) concludes that the adoption of E15 as the blend limit for standard US pump grades of gasoline rather than the current E10 should not adversely affect vehicles manufactured between 1994 and 2000 in terms of their performance and durability based on normal specifications and usage profile.

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Ford, St. Petersburg State project reaches final stage; advancing production connected car technology

Green Car Congress

As a result of the work that leverages university telematics expertise in space robot communications, Ford has filed several patents on technologies that can serve to advance connected cars of the future. These first results are very promising in terms of offering more reliable communications technology for the future of connected vehicles.

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Union College Partners with EV Connect to Provide EV Charging for Faculty, Staff, and Students

EV Connect

The Challenge As part of their climate action plan, Union College laid out different sustainable initiatives and objectives, which included installing a 2 dual port electric charging stations on campus in 2016. Whenever we reach out to EV Connect about a specific issue we get a response in less than 24 hours.” It’s a good relationship.

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Street network patterns reveal global trend towards increasing urban sprawl

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New research from McGill University and the University of California, Santa Cruz has found that the local streets of the world’s cities are becoming less connected, a global trend that is driving urban sprawl and discouraging the use of public transportation. SNDi for streets added years 2000 to 2014. emissions for a century or more.

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NTNU study finds ships’ and spare parts’ contribution to offshore wind power lifecycle impacts has been underestimated

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Components: WT = wind turbine; Fnd = foundation; EC = electrical connections, including substation; Inst = installation; IOo = input-output, other; Mnt = Maintenance, excluding replacement parts; RP = replacement parts; EOL = end-of-life. ships and spare parts”—to the total life cycle impacts of offshore wind power.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. But Trek 2000 hardly became a household name. This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000.

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