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BAE Systems reports more than 3,500 HybriDrive series hybrid systems delivered or ordered worldwide

Green Car Congress

Buses powered by HybriDrive currently transport nearly two million passengers a day in cities across North America and the UK including Houston, London, Manchester, New York, Ottawa, Oxford, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, and others. Atlanta, Ga. and Everett, Wash., Atlanta, Ga. and Everett, Wash., and suburban Chicago by the end of 2011.

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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

Cars That Think

In Jules Verne’s 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon , members of the fictitious Baltimore Gun Club, all disabled Civil War veterans, restlessly search for a new enemy to conquer. Disabled people are still not the arbiters of prosthetic standards; we are still not at the heart of design. When I first spoke with.