Cars That Think

JUNE 26, 2023

Back in 2001, she spotted a poster on her professor’s door advertising for an internship, and she applied without knowing the company she’d be working for. But as her degree program came to a close in 2001, Chakraverty was undecided about her next move. “I That’s a critical part of getting ahead.

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MAY 28, 2010

In addition, as part of its on-going acreage build strategy, Shell has acquired ~250,000 net acres (1,000 square kilometers) of mineral rights in the Eagle Ford shale play, in South Texas, in 2010. Shell’s 2009 North America tight gas production was some 140,000 boe/d (810mmcfe/d), an increase of 62% from 2008 levels, from a 3.7

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MARCH 10, 2016

Eight university teams will take part in the competition at the Audi museum mobile in Ingolstadt. ADTF has been developed by Audi Electronics Venture GmbH since 2001 in collaboration with various specialist departments at Audi. The software has been sold by Elektrobit (EB) since January 2008.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

parts per million (ppm) by 2024. In 2008, the 8-hour standard was lowered to 0.075 ppm. In 2008, the 8-hour standard was lowered to 0.075 ppm. The more stringent ozone NAAQS recently shelved by President Obama would have further reduced the 8-hour standard to within the range of 0.060-0.070 parts per million (ppm).

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JUNE 18, 2016

The Government of Canada has published proposed Locomotive Emissions Regulations in the Canada Gazette, Part I. These regulations were updated in 2008. 1973–2001. After considering all comments received, Transport Canada will finalize the regulations and publish them in the Canada Gazette, Part II. 1973–1992. 1993–2004.

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Cars That Think

JULY 13, 2023

It later became the chemistry of choice for early electric cars including the 2008 Tesla Roadster. He was part of a team there that developed the world’s first random-access magnetic memory. Within the battery community, Goodenough is known for more than just lithium cobalt oxide, though. After Goodenough earned a Ph.D.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Currently, almost half of China’s oil consumption is imported, and with the projection that demand for fossil fuel oil will reach 250 million tons by 2030, it is crucial for the country to consider biomass alternatives as part of their renewable energy plan. million tons in 2008.

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DIY Electric Car

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

There have been 5 recession since then until now and I wanted to see if Oil had anything to do with them, because deep in my heart, I knew the most recent recession was directly caused by the oil price spikes that started in 2007 and peaked in 2008. The oil price continued to increase all the way into the middle of 2008. but gradually.

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APRIL 16, 2015

billion gallons in 2001 to 1.4 MMT CO 2 ) from 1990 due, in large part, to increased demand for travel as fleet-wide light-duty vehicle fuel economy was relatively stable (average new vehicle fuel economy declined slowly from 1990 through 2004 and then increased more rapidly from 2005 through 2013). billion gallons in 1990 to 12.6

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JULY 23, 2014

The approach is similar in concept to technologies Ford described as part of its release of the S-MAX Concept ( Earlier post.) In 2008 there were 1.2 All are invisible to the user. With a short time-to-market scope, Project Harken will shortly have vehicles in the streets in order to run tests in real traffic scenarios. Background.

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MAY 29, 2013

A new white paper published by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) comparing official and “real-world” fuel consumption and CO 2 emission values for passenger cars in Europe and the United States shows that the average discrepancy between the values in Europe increased from less than 10% in 2001 to 25% in 2011.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels in 2008 were nearly 40% higher in 2008 than in 1990. surface temperatures, 1980-2008. For example, a La Niña climate pattern was active in 2008. However, 2008 was the ninth warmest year on record. Annual variability and averaged linear trend of global.

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MAY 11, 2009

As part of the trial, which will start this summer, a London bus will be fitted with ISA. Research on ISA in the UK has been going on for more than 10 years, including a major ISA-UK project funded by the UK’s Department for Transport (DfT) between 2001 and 2006. Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Though this was before Apple’s 2001 iPod made these devices popular worldwide, a number of MP3 players of varied quality were already on the market in the late 1990s. An appeals court in the United Kingdom, however, was not persuaded, and Trek lost its patent there in 2008. The thumb drive was all that—and more.

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DECEMBER 16, 2009

The Council of European Ministers adopted the limit as policy on behalf of the European Union in 1996, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) subsequently employed the limit as context in its Third Assessment Report (TAR), published in 2001. [ 1 ] Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Third Assessment Report , 2001. [

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

The National Academies have released a third review of the 21 st Century Truck Partnership (21CTP); the review follows the Phase 1 and Phase 2 reviews by the National Research Council in 2008 and 2012 ( earlier post ) and assesses the progress the partnership has made. These new targets need to be set for the research efforts.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

CPI, established in 2001, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of LG Chem of Korea. Source: DOE, ALBAA 2008. Mini-cells” Source: LG Chem, ALBAA 2008. The cell is the smallest part of the battery pack that can be handled independently. Source: Alamgir and Sastry (2008). Convergence 2008, 08CNVG-0036)

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 27, 2022

That success can be traced in part to Kim, now an emeritus professor at KAIST. From 1975, when the nation had barely begun producing its first transistors, to 2008, when he retired from teaching, Kim trained more than 100 students, effectively creating the first two generations of South Korean semiconductor experts.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

as compared to 1990 emissions, to be achieved between 2008 and 2012. 9 ] In addition, the complex, deliberate, and lengthy publishing cycle of the IPCC’s Assessment Reports—which have so far been produced in 1990, 1995, 2001, and 2007—has not kept pace with the abrupt acceleration of many key indicators of climate change.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 31, 2009

In 2001 she terminated our grass lawns and replaced them with drought tolerant plants because of her concerns for water use. We’re taking part in Bill McKibben’s 350.org’s My wife, Debra, is a horticulturist and works at our local South Coast Botanic Garden. org’s October 24 Day of International Climate Action.

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JULY 14, 2011

became the first zero-waste-to-landfill auto plant in North America at the outset of production in 2001. also started production as a zero-waste-to-landfill plant in 2008. kg) of industrial waste to landfills for every automobile produced in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2001 (FY2001), to an estimated 1.8 pounds (28.5

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As part of the job, in Oghara, Nigeria, then a small fishing village along the Niger River, he collected fares and directed passengers on and off the bus. The presence of oil and gas installations in his village, which is in the oil-producing part of Nigeria, led him to wonder how they worked and how they were remotely controlled.

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JULY 1, 2015

After rising during the 2000s, the state’s overall greenhouse gas emissions fell in 2008 as a result of the recession. The decline leveled off from 2009 to 2011 and increased by 2% in 2012, due in part to the closure of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station and a drop in hydropower generation. tons per person in 2001 to 12.0

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 12, 2009

The EPN has been around since 2001 and to be honest, I should have gotten involved with them a long time ago. If you’re not already a member of the EPN, you’ve run out of time and you’ve run out of excuses if you live around these parts. I don’t know what took me so long. There is no opting out, kids.

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AUGUST 17, 2015

As part of the analysis, carbon emissions related to the planting, growing, harvesting, transportation and production of corn into ethanol were compared to that of oil recovery and production. Published surveys of the ethanol industry showed that 2008 ethanol plants use 30% less energy to convert corn to ethanol than 2001-era plants.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

From FastLane: In order for plug-in electric vehicles to become part of the mainstream, a plug-in “ecosystem” must be in place when vehicles like the Chevy Volt extended-range electric vehicle hit the market. And for this ecosystem to be robust, there must be commonality, especially when owners are plugging into the electrical grid.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

Westbrook, 2001 "Gasoline to Electric Conversion Manual: A Workshop Guide for High Schools", published by the Electric Vehicle Society of Canada, July 2005 "History of the Electric Automobile: Hybrid electric vehicles", by Ernest H. 1 Point Reyes EVs Did You Know? Batteries Included $142,000 Grant 2006 Archive GM Plug-in Series Hybrid?

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JULY 17, 2011

The insured losses, around US$60 billion, were also nearly five times greater than the average since 2001. As part of this natural climate oscillation, atmospheric disturbances from the northwest recurrently move over the central states of the USA and meet humid warm air in more southerly and easterly regions.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The easiest conversions are for 2004-2008 Prius (not 2001-2003 Prius) and the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrid. As for warranties , there is legal precedent that original auto warranties cannot be voided completely by modifications — only the part(s) affected by retrofit will have their warranties affected.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 19, 2009

Yes, even these unfortunate dimwits can still save what’s left of their retirement funds while helping out the rest of us who weren’t fooled by the right wing, unabashed carbon pimps who ran things in the US government from 2000-2008 and did more damage to our environment than any government in history. The Big Dick Cheney Effect.

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Cars That Think

MAY 21, 2023

Taking up a big part of this valuable real estate are the cameras—just about every gadget needs a camera, or two, three, or more. And the most space-consuming part of the camera is the lens. They published the discovery in 2001 in Science , causing a stir as people imagined invisibility cloaks.

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