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What Kind of Cars Do Women Actually Want?

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Women also seemed to appreciate its novel design and how the cabin was oriented. No other vehicle has taken the same risks and pushed the design and engineering boundaries to the same limit,” said Tanya Gazdik. However, common themes seemed to be the availability of electrified powertrains, engaging designs, and a bevy of features.

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What Kind of Cars Do Women Actually Want?

The Truth About Cars

Women also seemed to appreciate its novel design and how the cabin was oriented. No other vehicle has taken the same risks and pushed the design and engineering boundaries to the same limit,” said Tanya Gazdik. However, common themes seemed to be the availability of electrified powertrains, engaging designs, and a bevy of features.

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GM To Manufacture Electric Motors; First GM Motors Will Go Into Next-Gen Two-Mode Hybrid in 2013

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By doing so, Stephens said, GM will lower cost and improve performance, quality, reliability and manufacturability of electric motors by controlling design, materials selection and production processes. GM also has developed state-of-the-art math-based design and computing capacity for electric motors. ” Quality and reliability.

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MIT Report Finds Natural Gas Has Significant Potential to Displace Coal, Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Role in Transportation More Limited

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In the transportation sector, the study found a somewhat smaller role for natural gas. The two-year study, managed by the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), examined the scale of US natural gas reserves and the potential of this fuel to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. The first two reports dealt with nuclear power (2003) and coal (2007).

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

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Consumption of anhydrous ethanol has grown steadily since the 1990s, peaking in 2003. Brazil introduced its current generation of ethanol-powered cars in 2003, the same year in which anhydrous ethanol consumption peaked. The Model T Ford, which debuted in 1908, was originally designed to operate on alcohol. 40 CFR § 80.27(d)

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Unique hybrid propulsion system makes UK debut on London buses

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Transport for London (TfL) is trialling the buses as part of an extensive long-running study into the performance of different hybrid systems and their various specifiable components such as controls, batteries and transmissions. Tags: Allison Transmission Inc. Allison Transmission.

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Studying Climate Change with an Ice Radar Drone

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This data has come in large part from ICESat , launched in 2003, and its successor, ICESat-2 , launched in 2018. Peregrine is a modified UAV carrying a miniaturized ice-penetrating radar that we designed around a software-defined radio. Some Baslers flying missions in Antarctica today flew World War II missions in their past life.)