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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. Of those, 1,000 were the units purchased by Avis.

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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. Encourage private fleets to purchase, lease, or rent ZEVs.

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

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Natural Gas Credit Purchase system; deliver technical and safety workshops. Purchasing Agreements; train and deploy Energy Coaches who will work. Indiana, will work to make existing municipal fueling stations available to. availability of transportation fuels across Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

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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. Statewide Paratransit Bus Hybrid Program: Purchase 31 paratransit hybrid buses to replace 31 gas and diesel vehicles. The DOT is making $48.1

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Osage Bio Energy: Winter Barley Ethanol as Advanced Biofuel for RFS-2

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In fact, growing barley is better than leaving the field fallow according to the Chesapeake Quarterly (published by the Maryland Sea Grant College, Vol 8, No. OBE views their financials as proprietary, but here are some publicly available numbers. Normalizing the weight of the bushel to the 56 lbs of a corn bushel, OBE expects 2.67

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EV Chargers for All!

Cars That Think

Harry decided to forego buying an EV, but he remains open to purchasing one if both the affordability and charging issues are better addressed. “I The transition to EVs in the United States will hit a deep pothole unless the more than one-third of the 124 million households that rent can be convinced to purchase an EV.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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It covers ten Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont). If they don’t have enough allowances to cover their emissions they must purchase more or face a penalty.

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