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Used Car of the Day: 2006 Acura RSX Type S

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Today we have a 2006 Acura RSX Type S for your perusal. Yes, this one has the six-speed manual transmission. It's been a daily driver with no track use -- and no wrecks. The mileage is a quite high 204K, and our seller says that the clutch and serpentine belt are new. So, too, are the motor mount and battery.

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Tesla dominates Cars.com’s Made in America Index with clean sweep

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percent in 2006, but that number has shrunk to 70.3 Masterson says the global supply chain is still extremely crucial to even the most American-built cars on the market. The average domestic parts content of the Top 10 cars was 83.4 percent in this year’s rankings.

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These Companies Were the Patent Powerhouses of 2024

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In 2006, IEEE Spectrum ranked patenting powerhouses in our first annual patent survey. This article is best viewed on desktop. The survey, conducted by the research firm 1790 Analytics , examined the number and influence of U.S. patents generated by more than 1,000 organizations.

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IEEE Recognizes Itaipu Dam’s Engineering Achievements

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In 2006 and 2007, it was expanded to 14 GW with the addition of two more units, for a total of 20. Itaipu was designed for continuous expansion. It initially launched with two 700-megawatt turbine units, providing 1.4 gigawatts of capacity. By 1991, the power plant reached its planned 12.6 GW capacity. Although Chinas 22.5-GW

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New breed of Chinese automakers rewriting script

China EV

Ive been reading over some stories I wrote for Automotive News in 2006, when I worked for AN in China. Lets go back to 2006 and take a peak and what was happening in the China automotive world. In March of 2006 I wrote a story with the headline Chinese carmakers global quest faces hurdles. I am chuckling as I type that.

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Massive solar array to power airside electric ground service vehicles at JFK Airport’s New Terminal One

Charged EVs

Case study: Early electric tugs designed specifically for GM In 2006, GM came to Eagle Tugs with a project to standardize its tow tractor (tugger) fleet across all its plants worldwide. Each bus can travel approximately 230 miles on a charge, and it takes four hours to fully recharge the bus.

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AlexNet Source Code Is Now Open Source

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Beginning in 2006, and against conventional wisdom, Li envisioned a dataset of images covering every noun in the English language. Here, Li [right] talks with Tom Kalil at the Computer History Museum.

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