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Yamaha Motor produces 3 mn Performance Damper since 2004 – ET Auto

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has produced a total of three-million of the Yamaha Performance Damper , an anti-vibration damper for automobiles since its manufacturing began in 2004, the company said. New Delhi: Yamaha Motor Co., This achievement was marked with a function at the Numazu Factory No.2 2 of Yamaha Motor Hydraulic System Co.,

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Japanese officials raid a Toyota group plant after the company admitted cheating on engine testing – ET Auto

Baua Electric

The urgent warning Monday covers certain Corolla compact cars and Matrix hatchbacks from the 2003 and 2004 model years, as well as the RAV4 small SUV from 2004 and 2005. Also covered are about 11,000 Pontiac Vibes from 2003 and 2004, which are essentially the same as the Matrix and were made at the same California factory.

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EPA: US greenhouse gases up 2% in 2013; increased coal consumption, cool winter

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MMT CO 2 ) from 1990 due, in large part, to increased demand for travel as fleet-wide light-duty vehicle fuel economy was relatively stable (average new vehicle fuel economy declined slowly from 1990 through 2004 and then increased more rapidly from 2005 through 2013). MMT CO 2 in 2004, and since then have declined about 13%.

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

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Romm, 2004 "Out of Gas, The End of the Age of Oil", by David Goodstein, 2004 "Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage", by Kenneth S. Real Life EV Stories A Case for Electricity Plug In America Positions Energy Policy Frequently Asked Questions About Plug-in Buses Who Killed the Electric Car?

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Urban transport | Two wheels good | The Economist

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Skip to main navigation Skip to main content Search Section search Economist.com Print edition only Economics A-Z EIU The World In Requires subscription Home This weeks print edition Daily news analysis Opinion All opinion Leaders Letters to the Editor Blogs Columns KALs cartoons Correspondents diary Economist debates World politics All world politics (..)

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

Cars That Think

The interview transcripts can be downloaded here and here. For these stories, Sutherland’s new oral history interviews are an incredible source, as are this event with the Sutherland brothers in 2004 and this retrospective lecture by Ivan Sutherland at the Computer History Museum in 2005.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans.

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