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California Legislature Considering Bill Requiring Smog Testing for Motorcycles

Green Car Congress

grams per kilometer (g/km) HC+NO x beginning with 2004 models and a Tier II standard of 0.8 On average, motorcycles sold in California by major manufacturers in 2004 achieved emissions of 0.92 g/km HC+NO x , compared to the 2004 Tier I standard of 1.4 The smaller engine group (280cc - 699cc) was required to meet a 1.0

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Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported

Cars That Think

Second Sight Medical Products , in his right eye in 2004 and the subsequent Argus II implant in his left 11 years later. The VPU converts the images to simple patterns of 60 pixels and sends that information to a transmitter on the user’s glasses. Terry Byland did not encounter any problems with his 2004 Argus I implant.

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Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

Green Car Congress

TCF acquired the 23,780-acre tract in 2004 for $18 million ($10 million California Coastal Conservancy, $3.5 how many trees the managers will remove either for sale or to better support the regrowth of the redwoods. Applying a -10% uncertainty factor to this outcome, over 100 years (2004 to 2104) the GRF will have 3,745,208.7

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Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

A PHEV with only a 20-mile all-electric range is 62% lower (see printed page 95 in the 2004 study ). They are converting up to 40 15-passenger Mercedes commercial vans into PHEVs, with some vehicles using NiMH and others advanced lithium-ion batteries, plus diesel and gasoline engines. The GREET 1.6

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Green Friday | Black Friday

My Energi

Established 2004 in sunny Cleethorpes England. Docks Beers – Docks Beers is a craft beer brewery and taproom inside a converted church near Grimsby’s famous Docks. There are so many unique handcrafted gifts and items, local products and opportunities for sale, that cannot be easily found online. Extreme Sports.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans. Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. We believe such production models could be available for sale in three years."Furia

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