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What Kind of Cars Do Women Actually Want?

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However, common themes seemed to be the availability of electrified powertrains, engaging designs, and a bevy of features. 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. Though it was hardly a buffet of information.

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What Kind of Cars Do Women Actually Want?

The Truth About Cars

However, common themes seemed to be the availability of electrified powertrains, engaging designs, and a bevy of features. 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. Though it was hardly a buffet of information.

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Norway-US Project Developing Diesel/Biodiesel, Cool Flame Reformer and Solid-Acid Fuel Cell APU

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NPS acquired licensing rights to the cool flame reformer technology developed at RWTH Aachen University in the late 1990s. This allows SAFCell stacks to run more easily on commercially available gas fuels (e.g., 2004) High-Performance Solid Acid Fuel Cells Through Humidity Stabilization. Tags: Diesel Fuel Cells.

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

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Under the Proalcool Program, sugar companies were ordered to increase production and the state-run oil company, Petrobras, was required to make álcool (ethanol) available at its fuel stations. However, the drop in oil prices throughout the 1980s and 1990s made it uneconomic for the Brazilian government to continue its ethanol program.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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Here, Steve Jobs introduced the Apple II, with a price tag of US $1,298 (about $5,800 today), while rival Commodore unveiled its PET. By the early 1990s, that investment had boosted the firm's worth to $27 billion. Whimsical ads for the PC starred Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp and carried the tag line “A Tool for Modern Times."

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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 many areas of the country, overnight power is available at a lower cost.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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The authors argued that the IPCC’s reference scenarios, which had been developed in the early 1990s as potential baselines which do not take emissions reductions into account, were no longer accurate. Tags: Climate Change Policy. April, 2008 : In an article entitled Dangerous Assumptions ( earlier post ), Roger Pielke, Jr.,

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