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Ford pauses Mustang Mach-E ‘Select’ trim orders due to demand

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” Order books for the hotly demanded Ford Mustang Mach-E only opened in August. The Ford Mustang Mach-E now starts at $54,975, matching the recently increased $50k price tag of the Ford F150 Lightning. For automakers that are willing to expand production, consumers will be there to buy their products.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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Here, Steve Jobs introduced the Apple II, with a price tag of US $1,298 (about $5,800 today), while rival Commodore unveiled its PET. Lowe reported directly to Cary, bypassing IBM's complex product-development bureaucracy, which had grown massively during the creation of the System/360 and S/370. IBM CEO Frank T.

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Labour's £5,000 sweetener to launch electric car revolution | Environment | The Guardian

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How the money would be distributed is yet to be decided but Hoon said it would be available only to people buying cars that ran entirely, or for the vast majority of their time, on electricity. Its that part that could incentivise consumers to buy an electric vehicle." Report errors or inaccuracies: reader@guardian.co.uk

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Urban transport | Two wheels good | The Economist

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AFP Some 21m electric bicycles were sold in China in 2008, according to Frank Jamerson, author of Electric Bikes Worldwide Reports. The British government, for example, announced recently that, in a few years, motorists will be able to get up to £5,000 in incentives to buy an electric car. The figure has doubled since 2005.

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Resounding success or a piece of scrap? The Green Piece

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According to Government figures, orders for new cars have been boosted by 60,000; Toyota has seen its order book lifted by more than 7,000; and Nissan has taken an additional 2,383 orders from customers looking to scrap their cars, prompting it to take on more staff on temporary contracts. Tags: The Green Piece. Faye Sunderland.

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Soot and Spin: Two Plug-in Paradoxes

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Yet according to Bill Moore's report in EVWorld on Toyota's own PHEV Prius , Toyota solved the cold start dilemma with "a vacuum bottle of sorts on the Prius that stores a heated fluid for up to three days and is used to pre-warm the converter, thus reducing cold start emissions." was smooth as silk and brimming with torque.

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Clean Tech - GigaOM - Salon.com

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sales for the third month in a row in March), and as the Wall Street Journal reports, the government is determined to help it grow an average of 10 percent a year for the next three years. According to reports from Chinese media picked up by AutoblogGreen and GM-Volt today, BYD has sold just 80 F3DM units in four months.

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