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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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I knew I wanted something for her that was cheap to maintain, had a reliable automatic transmission, came with cruise control, AC. That 10 years is now only applicable for the Generation 3 made from 2010-2015, but at least there are options. It is something very cheap to fix and to inspect. It was time to buy our first car.

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Researchers use melamine to create effective, low-cost carbon capture; potential tailpipe application

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Using an inexpensive polymer called melamine, researchers from UC Berkeley, Texas A&M and Stanford have created a cheap, easy and energy-efficient way to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks. This work creates a general industrialization method toward carbon dioxide capture via DCC atomic-level design strategies. —Mao et al.

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AlixPartners study finds post-crisis auto industry facing new set of challenges; sales projected below historical levels for foreseeable future

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AlixPartners also estimates that on-going unemployment and underemployment could cost the auto industry up to 1.5 Technologically, the auto industry could well be on the cusp of its biggest set of changes since the invention of the internal-combustion engine more than 100 years ago. million units in 2011 and only 13.6 million in 2012.

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Biden rumored to announce quadrupling of tariffs on Chinese EVs, up to 100%

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China was originally somewhat slow to adopt EVs – in 2015, EV market share was just.84%, But with these increased tariffs, that makes it a little less likely that US consumers will gain access to these cheap, high-tech Chinese EVs. 84%, similar to the US market share of.66% 66% and well below California at 3.1% at the time.

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Lund researchers develop optimized two-phase enzymatic process for production of biodiesel

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For these reasons, the use of liquid lipase preparations has attracted interest, but the optimisation of these processes is needed in order to establish them as a realistic industrial alternative. The results, the authors suggested in their paper, constitute a good starting point for efficient and cheap biodiesel production.

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$67 Oil Has All The Majors Converging in Argentina

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But with the crash in prices since mid-2014, the effect of the regulation has reversed: motorists are now effectively subsidizing the oil industry. That means consumers are not reaping the benefits of cheap fuel. The higher prices they pay offer a huge lifeline for the oil industry. per million Btu (MMBtu).

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Nissan and Enel to launch major V2G trial in the UK; LEAF and e-NV200

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The announcement follows the signing of a partnership agreement between Nissan and Enel in Paris in December 2015 during the 21 st UN Conference on Climate Change (COP21) to trial V2G technology in Europe. Earlier post.) A trial comprising 40 V2G units began in Denmark in January 2016. —Paul Willcox, Chairman of Nissan Europe.

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