Cars That Think

DECEMBER 10, 2022

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. Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995.

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Singapore 2000 Store IDEA 144

EV Adoption

JANUARY 22, 2022

I say apparently as a PR person with Stellantis, the parent company of Jeep, stated the following to me in a January 18 email: I can tell you that it is true, we were the best selling plug-in hybrid SUV last year in the US. credit off the the cap cost makes it a real cheap lease on 53k Jeep. Leased mine. Rocksteadyrobk, 4xeForums.

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Jeep PHEV Tax Credit Sale 98

Cars That Think

APRIL 23, 2022

This article was first published as "‘PostScript’ prints anything: a case history." It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. As noted earlier, one was a cheap laser printer. It appeared in the May 1988 issue of IEEE Spectrum. What’s NeXT?

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Design Engine Standards San Francisco 105

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

This article discusses: (a) why the focus should have been on the transfer of proven renewable energy technology from developed to developing countries; and (b) how this technology transfer can be financed with currently available funds. Other transaction costs include the search of partners, the drafting of contracts, legal assistance, etc.

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Climate Change Climate Carbon Emissions 244