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Why Are Modern Vehicles So Much Bigger?

The Truth About Cars

In the 1960s, Americans were enjoying cheap gasoline and everyday automobiles boasting some of the largest engines ever manufactured. Meanwhile, Congress prepped the new Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards to force manufacturers to build more efficient vehicles. Here’s an example from The Washington Post.

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Smart-grid project matches wind to electric cars | Green Tech - CNET News

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Along with other industry executives, IBMs Schurr spoke Wednesday morning about smart-grid technologies in Washington, D.C., In an interview on Tuesday, Schurr said that he planned to tell members of Congress that smart-grid technologies are already available and can deliver substantial improvements in efficiency. E-mail Martin.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

So, the used batteries are almost arbitrarily cheap since an arbitrarily large fraction of their cost of production can be loaded on their use in transportation. Of course building a new alternative energy infrastructure would put millions of now unemployed people to work, but why rebuild when your not done wrecking everything.

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

Cars That Think

“There wasn’t a single tap-free telephone on the east side of New York,” professional wiretapper. News of the discovery made the front page of the New York Times a week later. Evelyn Straus/NY Daily News Archive/Getty Images. The fact that the case involved New York Telephone employees only reinforced this conjecture.