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Honda announces second plug-in vehicle testing program; Japan joins US, China may follow

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In the US program, the city of Torrance, California along with Stanford University and Google Inc., Study the low noise impact of electric vehicles in residential neighborhoods. First launched in 2006, this 4-wheel electric cart will also be used as a testing vehicle. Solar-powered charging station for the test vehicles.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Yen Meng Jiin/Singapore Press/AP Tan, the third of six brothers, was born and raised in a kampung (village) in the neighborhood of Geylang, Singapore. Henn Tan holds up a ThumbDrive during an interview in Singapore in January 2006. Meanwhile, worldwide sales of computer equipment had started to boom. Trek’s struggles and Tan’s fall.

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