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What Kind of Cars Do Women Actually Want?

The Truth About Cars

However, saying that this is the vehicle women most desire — let alone are willing to spend money buying — is probably a stretch. Despite often being framed as though there’s some colossal demographic consensus, plenty of awards are effectively decided by a small number of handpicked judges that are supposed to represent the larger group.

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What Kind of Cars Do Women Actually Want?

The Truth About Cars

However, saying that this is the vehicle women most desire — let alone are willing to spend money buying — is probably a stretch. Despite often being framed as though there’s some colossal demographic consensus, plenty of awards are effectively decided by a small number of handpicked judges that are supposed to represent the larger group.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

Green Car Congress

Since 2005, when major greenhouse-gas emitters among the Kyoto signatories were issued caps on their emissions and permitted to buy credits to meet those caps, there has been more than $300 billion worth of carbon transactions. REFERENCES. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Policy. Perspective by Brian J. INTRODUCTION.

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

Green Car Congress

GM produces several successful vehicles: The Chevy Malibu has won several car of the years awards and is recommended by Consumer Reports. You saw the reaction in the room today, it was astonishment, at how high the number was ” said one senior leader referring to the unveiling press conference and the 230 mpg number.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

a small mainframe computer company that Taylor had tried to convince Xerox to buy as a way of starring up PARC. Larry Tesler , now manager of object-oriented systems at Apple, who had graduated from Stanford, was still hanging around the campus when the university was considering buying an IBM 360 timesharing system.

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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

Plug In India

We realised quite early that the Tigor’s fast tag had a zero balance - so we ended up paying double the toll on the first three gates. A SOS call to Jayasuriya resulted in 1000 Rs appearing on the tag - and from then on it was easy going. He wins the Zeon’s heavy user award hands down. The first halt was Krishnagiri.

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Will CARB’s New Rules Damage EV Startups?

Revenge of the Electric Car

The award-winning 2006 documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? This high-pollution moment is referred to as a cold start. If one company offers a two-year warranty on its battery, and another offers three years, then consumers should decide which company to buy from. Tags: CARB In the Media Government Regulations.

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