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

Cars That Think

On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. The personal computer vastly expanded the number of people and organizations that used computers. With that, the preeminent U.S. Press coverage of the announcement was lukewarm.

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Off With His Head: Heritage Customs Shows an Open-Top Defender

The Truth About Cars

A custom shop in The Netherlands has changed that with a new creation called the Valiance. Far from a backyard Sawzall job, this conversion involves a semi-electric soft top, roll cage which conforms to FIA standards, snazzy new wheels, different upholstery (water resistant, perhaps), and the expected scattershot blast of badges and emblems.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

Green Car Congress

While OEMs and utilities continue to define and refine hardware standards and communication protocols for smart charging, a tremendous amount of work needs to be done in preparing both the grid and the process to accommodate the expected influx of plug-ins, and to make the process as easy as possible for consumers. But we see a 6.6

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Eaton to Support Project to Develop and Deploy Medium-Duty Plug-in Hybrid Systems; Stimulus Funding to Support Largest Commercial PHEV Demonstration to Date

Green Car Congress

The funding is part of the recently announced $2.4 The production and demonstration of this fleet of vehicles is a significant step in driving PHEV technology beyond the personal transportation platform to a daily work application. The entire system can be recharged by plugging it into a standard 120- or 240-volt electrical outlet.

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OnStar Service to Launch in China in December

Green Car Congress

SGM will provide one year of OnStar as standard to customers with OnStar equipped vehicles. Next year, OnStar will play an important role at the SAIC-GM Pavilion at the World Expo 2010 Shanghai where visitors will see a vision for personal urban transportation in the year 2030. Source: GM. Click to enlarge.

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I bought Harley’s new electric motorcycle. Delivery was a hot mess, but still awesome

Baua Electric

It also carried an equally high price tag of nearly $30k. The high price tag combined with the Harley branding meant that the market was limited mainly to wealthy, older brand loyalists, and they weren’t exactly buying it by the thousands. The actual hard part, I would soon learn, would be the delivery. All the better for me.

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Inkjets Are for More Than Just Printing

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To fill a standard letter page that has 2.5-centimeter These include making DNA microarrays for genomics, creating electrical traces for printed circuit boards, and building 3D-printed structures. Future uses could include personalized medicine and development of advanced batteries.

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