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Junkyard Find: 2007 Mini Cooper S

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When BMW bought the Rover Group in 1994, the original Mini (which began production by the British Motor Corporation in 1959) was still being built. A six-speed manual was standard equipment. They're cheap, quick enough to be fun, and junkyard parts are plentiful. Here's an '07 Cooper S model in a Colorado yard.

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Request government for protectionist measures in Budget; remove duty on raw materials: Abhyuday Jindal – ET Auto

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He suggested levying Basic Customs Duty (BCD) on imports as the domestic market is being affected by cheap and sub-standard stainless steel products from select group of countries like China and Vietnam.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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That goal led ultimately to a page description language called PostScript, today the de facto standard of desktop publishing. This article was first published as "‘PostScript’ prints anything: a case history." proved loath to support a truly standard language. It appeared in the May 1988 issue of IEEE Spectrum. s laser printers.

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Opinion: The End Of An Era: Is The US Petrodollar Under Threat?

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But in 1971, US President Richard Nixon took the country off the gold standard, which formally ended the linkage between the world’s major currencies and gold. The Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944 established a system of exchange rates that allowed governments to sell their gold to the US Treasury. Rise of the Yuan.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. Parts of this article are adapted from the author’s new book, Age of Auto Electric ( MIT Press, 2022). Electric Car tzero 0-60 3.6

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Charged EVs

Those guys don’t have the wherewithal to finance a battery-electric truck that costs twice as much as a diesel truck, and they’re usually buying third- or fourth-owner diesels anyway, that are super-cheap. Iron phosphate batteries are great because they’re durable, they’re cheap. So WattEV is going to offer truck-as-a-service.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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As another panelist pointed out, “ The New York Times is well-equipped to write the article about how Stimulus Funds have been wasted ”. They were hoping it was going to be more aggressive in combating carbon directly through a stronger cap and trade and indirectly with a higher federal renewable energy standard. chance of default.

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