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Junkyard Find: 1986 Dodge Aries SE Four-Door Sedan

The Truth About Cars

Lee Iacocca 's Chrysler Corporation sold K-Cars in the United States for the 1981 through 1989 model years, saving itself from near-certain bankruptcy in the process. I recall angrily futzing with video codecs in order to watch the file I'd laboriously downloaded of this spoof Aries commercial, circa 2000.

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FedEx Converts 92 Delivery Trucks to Hybrids, Expanding Hybrid-Electric Fleet by 50%

Green Car Congress

The converted hybrids were developed with Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC) and Eaton Corporation, which provided the hybrid-electric systems ( earlier post ). The standard FedEx trucks used in the retrofit program were 2000 or 2001 models with 300,000 to 500,000 miles driven. over the past six months.

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FedEx boosts fleet with hybrid-electric trucks

Green Cars News

The hybrid conversions took place in Charlotte, North Carolina over the last six months and were developed with Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC) and Eaton Corporation. These standard trucks used in the retrofit programme were models from 2000 or 2001 with 300,000-500,000 miles on the clock.

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Environmental Charter High School Gets Solar; Greenius Goes EcoMedia

Creative Greenius

The Pacific Coast Termite grant also funded an environmentally friendly XT-2000 Orange Oil termite treatment for the greenhouse. The on-stage banner heralding the ribbon cutting event @ ECHS. Courtesy of CBS EcoMedia). Plants in black tubes behind the ECHS Science teacher are being fed by aquaponic system in the new solar-powered greenhouse.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

Cars That Think

Convinced that Xerox was making a mistake, Warnock and Geschke left PARC to implement their page description language once again, but this time within a corporation they controlled. They intended both to sell this setup as a turnkey system and to franchise the publishing equivalent of a one-hour photo store. What’s NeXT?

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Toyota FCV Mirai launches in LA; initial TFCS specs; $57,500 or $499 lease; leaning on Prius analogy

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—Akio Toyoda, Toyota Motor Corporation President/CEO. This includes hot testing in Death Valley, cold testing in Yellowknife, Canada, steep grade hill climbs in San Francisco and high altitude trips in Colorado. For example: A quick flashback to the year 2000. High-pressure Hydrogen Tanks. Expectations.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

Cars That Think

founders Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, Intel chief executive officer Andrew Grove Favorite restaurants Postrio and Bella Voce in San Francisco, Beausejour in Los Altos, Calif. The Intel marketing department they estimated that sales [of microprocessors] might total only 2000 chips a year. You’re crazy.” But word went out.

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