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From Fixing Farm Equipment to Becoming a Director at 3M

Cars That Think

We couldn’t afford to pay [US] $350 to buy a machine at that time, so we had to build our own,” he says. He found work as a technician for telephone equipment supplier Automatic Electric , in Chicago. He “tried his hand at being an entrepreneur,” he says, and founded a startup in Chicago. about 32 kilometers away.

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Ford Smart Mobility shifts from research to implementation; company announces new programs, next areas of focus

Green Car Congress

Ford Credit is inviting 14,000 and 12,000 customers in six US cities and London, respectively, to sign up to rent their Ford Credit-financed vehicles to prescreened drivers for short-term use, offsetting monthly vehicle ownership costs. In many cities, driving a personal vehicle from home to work is not feasible. Earlier post.).

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