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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. engineers were forming hobby clubs to learn about the new machines.

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Getting the personal story `

Electric Auto Association

We help folks understand the health of the battery when they’re looking at buying a used car,” Cary continued. It’s scary when you’re buying something new and it can help to talk with someone who has had a similar experience.” Sometimes we recommend they take it to the dealer for a check.”

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Canadian Club: The Small Cars That U.S. Buyers Can’t Have

Green Car Reports

the distances are equally vast; and there’s way more land area per person. And yet Canadians tend to buy smaller cars. Canada is bigger than the U.S.; Why is this? The simple answer, at least from the south side of the border, is that Canadians are less ostentatious. Canada forbidden fruit small cars'

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UK’s largest car club formed as City Car Club buys WhizzGo

Green Cars News

Pay-as-you-go car company City Car Club has finalised the purchase of key competitor WhizzGo for an undisclosed sum to create the UK’s largest national network of hourly rental cars. With the acquisition completed, City Car Club has now extended its reach to 15 UK cities with 500 cars and over 16,000 members.

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Advocating electric in the heartland

Electric Auto Association

You buy your own solar panels, you power your house and your car, and the utility wants to get paid for your doing that.” With the support of the Sierra Club and other organizations, the ordinance was challenged legally and eventually landed in the Kansas Supreme Court where it was ruled illegal last April. “It

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CEO Mary Barra & General Motors Make Sure The Greenius Is Rewarded For His Many Years Of EV Advocacy

Creative Greenius

Last week, as part of the little known and unadvertised “Bolt Buyback” program GM quietly created in response to the recall of all their 2017- 2019 Bolts, Chevy paid $37,900 to buy this car back from us. Showing Sierra Club bigwig, Evan Gillespie how much cargo room our car has. Let me tell you about it. I pushed my friends to get one.

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2023 Lexus LX 600 Review - The Chauffeured Land Crusher

The Truth About Cars

Outside a few wealthy suburban enclaves, much of this region traditionally has valued restraint, and the only acceptable response when questioned about buying a luxury good is to reply that you got it on sale. Here we see Lexus’ signature Nori Green Pearl paint, which really looks much better in person than I can manage to convey in photos.

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