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A mini industry spawns under the hood of a booming car market – ET Auto

Baua Electric

As per the company’s internal report, the market is poised to grow at a 15% CAGR in the said period. Back in 2001, Maruti Suzuki was one of the first players in this segment with its True Value channel, enabling trust and breaking stereotypes attached to the purchase of ‘second-hand’ vehicles.

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Opinion: Oil Market ShowdownCan Russia Outlast The Saudis?

Green Car Congress

and China markets, while the Russian Finance Ministry recently backed away from a tax proposal which Russian crude producers said would reduce their output. The Finance Ministry sought a change in the mineral extraction tax formula to generate an additional 609 billion rubles in 2015 and 1.6

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The Real Story of Pixar

Cars That Think

Then we figured out how to move those objects, shade them, and light them before rendering them as frames of a movie. Philips, partnering with GM to share the financing load, was interested in our rendering technology that yielded three-dimensional internal views of human beings from CAT scans. But that deal never happened.

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Navigant Research forecasts new EV global sales of > 346,000 units in 2014; 10 predictions for the year

Green Car Congress

Taking legal action over the ZEV mandates would be a repeat of the late 1990s: automakers filed a federal lawsuit that led California to water down its ZEV requirements beginning in 2001, thus effectively ending most automakers electric vehicle (EV) programs for more than a decade. PEV makers pursue revenue beyond vehicle sales. million tons.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

Cars That Think

By the beginning of the 21st century, South Korea had become a dominant power in the global semiconductor market, meeting more than 60 percent of international demand for memory chips alone. Kim’s colleagues at Fairchild Semiconductor’s research and development laboratories called him “Professor CCD.” Chang Hae-Ja. Frederick E. Chang Hae-Ja.

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The Most Powerful Greenius In America

Creative Greenius

My new solar system only needs to be 2 kilowatts now instead of 4 – which is good because solar’s still too damn expensive and the process for putting AB 811 financing in place is taking too damn long, (and that’s another Greenius post that I’m still working on).

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