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Global auto production may hit 80+ million units this year; hybrids below 2% of total output

Green Car Congress

South Korea has improved its fuel economy by one third since 2003. E.g., the 2025 CAFE/GHG limits in the US would be similar to what Japan already requires for 2015. In Japan, the average driver covers only about 6,400 km, while in China, the average distance per person works out to a much shorter 1,000 km. l/100 km (52.3

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. The dot-com boom of 1995 to 2000 further increased demand for personal computing gear. MB of data. Clones, in a sense, are marvelous….it

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Berkeley Lab study forecasts China energy use will peak within 20 years; 356 million private cars by 2050

Green Car Congress

Under CIS, China’s per capita energy use will be below South Korea and Spain in 2050 while under ERI’s base scenario, China will be well below the per capita energy use in Australia and France. By 2050, personal car ownership reaches 0.68 Appliance sales and expansion of urban areas also drive electricity demand.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

Welcome to the 7th Annual Top 10 EV Countries list — my own very personal version of March Madness! However, I won’t ignore that its CEO, among the world’s richest persons, loudly undermined sensible pandemic policies in his home state, thus helping kill more of his fellow Americans and his own workers. 2ND PLACE: CHINA!

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