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Ford, Chevy and Buick-GMC-Cadillac dealerships promote throughout 4 states

Baua Electric

They closed at the former Southworth Ford in Marion, Ind., It was once renamed Hunter Ford. “Russo introduced me to Southworth, and we got along, and we thought it was a good price, and we bought the store,” he stated. The automobile store on Feb. Marion is in central Indiana, north of Indianapolis.

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Moore’s Not Enough: ?4 New Laws of Computing

Cars That Think

Certainly, the phenomenon of scalability was well known in the automobile industry before it made a significant impact on the computing industry. Henry Ford was a notable example of the the application of this scalability law. Henry Ford’s company was perhaps the first company to apply this law at a grand scale.

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Letting in the Light

Electric Auto Association

It was like the early days of the automobile industry when everything was so scattered,” Smith explained. You could buy an LEV, but you could only get it serviced at the store you bought it from. LEV manufacturing and distribution were very disorganized back then.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012. Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) Mazda Ford Partner was reported to be developing Series PHEV based on Mazda 5 MPV platform. Establishing dealer network.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Posted by: AJ | Apr 13, 2009 3:24:59 PM Dont buy the hype, version 1 was the EV1 which GM released in 1996. Posted by: J-Bob | Apr 13, 2009 4:48:10 PM "Dont buy the hype, version 1 was the EV1 which GM released in 1996. If the EV1 was viable (or even close) we would see Ford, Toyota, Honda, etc all with 80 mile cars right now.do

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