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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part VI)

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But behind the layers of finance and paperwork, Guidestar GPS was developed. When it arrived, the Oldsmobile Eighty Eight became the first production car available in the United States with a GPS navigation system. It was available on all three models for 1996. Acura followed with hard drive navigation in the 1996 3.5

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Video Friday: Happy Holidays!

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A variety of testing is taking place at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, Marshall Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. ACM ] The prevalent approach to object manipulation is based on the availability of explicit 3D object models.

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8-state alliance releases action plan to put 3.3M ZEVs on their roads by 2025

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The partner states are California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont. The Key Actions are: Promote the availability and effective marketing of all plug-in electric vehicle models in the states and support these efforts. Assessment of creative vehicle financing innovations.

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Berkeley Lab researchers develop Bchain protocol to make blockchain more robust

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More importantly, transaction records are only available to a small group of invited members—which is why financial and medical industries, as well as science research, tend to favor the private blockchain. Both are now faculty members at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

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DOE to award $11M to 20 new Clean Cities projects for alt fuel cars and trucks

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Indiana, will work to make existing municipal fueling stations available to. availability of transportation fuels across Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. the District of Columbia, Maryland and northern Virginia will develop. The Unlocking Private Sector Financing for Alternative Fuel Vehicles and.

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Analysis concludes that current transportation policy in most US states will likely worsen GHG emission trends in US

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However, most states use few of the available transportation policy tools to reduce. Only three states—California, Maryland, and New Jersey—landed in the top tier of the scoring methodology, and 12 states fell into tier three, the lowest. Prioritize cleaner transportation modes throughout all programs and policies.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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billion have been made available for transit improvements throughout the US. billion available for highway, transit, bridge, rail, shipyard and airport construction and repairs nationwide. Material is being financed and procured through the New York Power Authority. Maryland Transit Administration, Maryland: $522,000.

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