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Looking to get in a hybrid for cheap? Used Toyota Prius 1.5 HSD 2004-2009 Review

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People might be bored reading about the Prius but a review on four Priuses (2004, 2005, two 2006s) that my family owns that ran a total of 913k km (570k miles) should be interesting, right? Due to a sudden company relocation, my wife had no other choice but to drive to her office. My 2005 burns about 0.3-0.4 That is normal.

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Junkyard Find: 2007 Mini Cooper S

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and all the rest (FIAT is a tough one, since it started out as a legitimate acronym for F abbrica I taliana A utomobil di T orino, but the company itself ditched the all-caps spelling many years ago). They're cheap, quick enough to be fun, and junkyard parts are plentiful. They didn't make this car a real JCW , but still looked cool.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. During the 1990s, as the size of files and software increased, computer companies searched for alternatives. MB of data.

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KPMG study identifies 10 sustainability “megaforces” with accelerating impacts on business; imperative of sustainability changing the automotive business radically

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The report calculated that if companies had to pay for the full environmental costs of their production, they would lose 41 cents for every US$1 in earnings on average. billion in 2005. Yet the OECD projects that forest areas will decline globally by 13% from 2005 to 2030, mostly in South Asia and Africa. Source: KPMG.

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How to Navigate EV Charging Rebates and Successfully Fund Your Home Charging Station

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In this follow-up to our article covering commercial incentives from last month, we’ll explore some of the rebates that can help you bring EV charging home on the cheap. During peak demand, utility companies have to compensate for the surge in power needs by turning on “peaker” plants. Alternative Fuel Infrastructure Tax Credit.

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Delivery of renewable isooctane to Audi tips interesting potential non-biomass pathway for biogasoline; “e-benzin” as solar fuel

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LanzaTech, founded in 2005, has developed a novel gas-liquid fermentation process that produces fuels and chemicals from gas resources and is the first company to successfully demonstrate production of fuel-grade ethanol from steel mill gases. Earlier post.). —Thomas Buhl. Audi e-fuels.

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How Big Oil Stays on Top

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Almost every American who drives (and for better or worse that's most of us), must pay oil companies for the privilege. Today's NYTimes has a big story about one way oil and gas companies continue to steal from us. All the major oil companies have joined Kerr-McGee to try and derail Maxwell's suit, but it remains scheduled for January.

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