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Junkyard Find: 2012 Hyundai Equus

The Truth About Cars

When the first Hyundai Excels appeared on American streets as 1986 models, bearing shockingly cheap price tags, did anyone imagine that someday there would be a big, ostentatious Hyundai luxury sedan with serious V8 power available here? Starting in the 2017 model year, the successor to the Equus became the Genesis G90.

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Saudis Expand Price War Downstream

Green Car Congress

The crude is so cheap it’s pretty much free for them, the margins are going to be massive. Along with acquiring a controlling stake in Korea’s S-Oil, the desert kingdom is commissioning a new refinery in Jizan which would have a capacity of around 400,000 barrels per day when it begins operations in 2017.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. Henn Tan, shown here in 2017, fought a series of mostly losing battles against those who pirated Trek 2000’s ThumbDrive design and against rival patent claims.

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Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

My Electric Car

Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term. 2017) Toyota admits ‘Elon Musk is right’ but moves forward with fuel cell anyway [link] accessed 27/10/2017. As already mentioned, it also needs to be highly pressurized to gain any useful energy density and this takes further energy. Fletcher, S.,