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GM Maven introduces monthly offering for members; vehicles include the Chevrolet Tahoe and Chevrolet Volt

Green Car Congress

Members can download the Maven app to view pricing by market in real time for Maven Reserve. Members can access popular GM vehicles for an extended time period without the commitment of leasing, financing or buying. Maven members pay a monthly fee to reserve a new GM vehicle loaded with technology for 28 days.

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High School Students Built This iPhone App for the Visually Impaired

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Blind Industries and Services of Maryland , a not-for-profit organization in Baltimore that provides training and career resources to the state’s visually impaired. Assistive devices on the market for the blind can cost as much as US $6,000, he says. They tried many iterations before they had a working prototype. IEEE Spectrum.

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Man sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for selling $9 million in fraudulent renewable fuel credits

Green Car Congress

According to evidence presented at the six day trial, Hailey owned Clean Green Fuel, LLC, located in the Baltimore, Md. to buy his home in Perry Hall, Md. Hailey registered Clean Green Fuel with EPA under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program as a producer of biodiesel.

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Plug In Auto Nation

Plug In Partners

We believe Americans will buy these vehicles , which is why we want to sell them. The coalition is working with its partners to generate "soft" fleet orders to demonstrate the potential market for plug-in hybrid vehicles. Mike Jackson certainly knows what type of vehicles that Americans will buy.

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Campaign Begins

Plug In Partners

This campaign will demonstrate to automakers that the market is also there.” For example, an area pest control company has pledged to buy up to 150 light weight plug-in trucks, once they are produced. EV world NATIONAL COALITION LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN TO URGE AUTOMAKERS TO PRODUCE PLUG-IN HYBRID VEHICLES WASHINGTON, D.C.—January

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

We would like to take this opportunity to report on our efforts to demonstrate to automakers that a market for plug-in hybrid vehicles exists in the United States today. Soft” fleet orders are a critical component of the Plug-In Partners goal of demonstrating to automakers that a market exists for flexible fuel plug-in hybrids.

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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The lingering questions around actual commercial applications gave promoters reason to continue organizing public demonstrations, such as the Enterprise Networking Event (ENE) in Baltimore, in June 1988. Every sector of the market is planning to purchase TCP/IP products in the next year,” the report stated.

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