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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

Green Car Congress

I was able to spend 10 minutes driving a Saturn Aura sedan with an (HCCI) engine system. GM expects HCCI, when combined with enabling technologies like variable valve actuation and advanced electronic engine controls, to provide a 12-15% improvement in overall fuel economy while being more affordable than hybrid or diesel technologies.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

In 1974 the laser printer first became available outside PARC when a small group of PARC researchers under John Ellenby—who built the Alto II, a production-line version of the Alto, and who is now vice president of development at Grid Systems Corp., Xerox PARC had this aura of being a very far-out place. Mountain View, Calif.—began

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