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What Kind of Cars Do Women Actually Want?

The Truth About Cars

Noticing a declining market share in the 1990s, Subaru elected to re-target the niche markets that offered it secure footing upon its regional launch. Subaru also didn’t turn away male customers, even courting them through its involvement with motorsport, with Subaru’s North American volumes absolutely exploding after the 1990s.

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What Kind of Cars Do Women Actually Want?

The Truth About Cars

Noticing a declining market share in the 1990s, Subaru elected to re-target the niche markets that offered it secure footing upon its regional launch. Subaru also didn’t turn away male customers, even courting them through its involvement with motorsport, with Subaru’s North American volumes absolutely exploding after the 1990s.

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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

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The government assisted the shift by giving sugar companies subsidized loans to build ethanol plants, as well as guaranteeing prices for their ethanol products. Automobile manufacturers were given tax breaks to produce cars that ran on hydrous ethanol, and, by 1980, every automobile company in Brazil was following this lead.

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Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

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CA, NY, MA and other states have had Zero-Emission Vehicle programs since the early 1990s because battery electric vehicles in those states, taking into account power plants, are far cleaner than gasoline cars in reducing urban air pollution and smog. In 2003-04, the US Marine Corps demonstrated a diesel-electric PHEV-20 HUMVEE.

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Toshiba Launches Direct Methanol Fuel Cell in Japan as External Power Source for Mobile Electronic Devices

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The company has conducted R&D on both active and passive fuel cells since the early 1990s. Toshiba demonstrated the first DMFC for portable PCs in March 2003. one of Japan’s leading packaging container companies. Tags: Fuel Cells Methanol. The palm-sized Dynario is Toshiba’s first DMFC product.

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

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Why hes banking on an obscure Chinese electric car company and a CEO who - no joke - drinks his own battery fluid. MidAmericans David Sokol, BYDs Wang, and company advisor Li Lu flew with Sokol from Detroit to Omaha so that Wang could meet Buffett in person. tech industry during the 1990s.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Batteries not ready.

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