The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I suspect that the radio was a junkyard-obtained unit swapped in long after purchase, since body parts have been swapped as well. Gas was cheap during the late 1980s and early 1990s, other than a spike after Iraq invaded Kuwait , but some car buyers still wanted good fuel economy. Gets 100 kilometers per 4.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

We reached peak oil consumption in the US in 2008 and the same is true in the EU and Japan. ” In general, the sponsor’s goal is to use as much cheap debt financing and as little equity as possible to complete the deal. The 300 refers to 300 basis points with a basis point being 1/100 th of a percent (300 basis points = 3%).

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Green Charging

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

We do not want to waste money on cheap, low-quality commodities. This method of charging is much slower and much more unsafe than purchasing a purpose built EV charger. Almost all EV chargers on sale today in the UK are “Type 2” Type 2 refers to the type of plug that the charger uses. We want to save money.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 2, 2022

You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. Jack [Tramiel] made the bet that by the time we were ready to produce a product, 64K Rams would be cheap enough for us to use,” Charpentier said. There were additional VIC-20 assembly facilities in Japan, where the disk drive for the C-64 was to be manufactured.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

"Importing batteries from Japan was very expensive," Wang says. "When I first visited the BYD factory, I was shocked," says Daniel Kim, a Merrill Lynch technology analyst based in Hong Kong, who has been to the fully automated production lines in Japan and Korea. "If we put our staff in Japan or the U.S.,

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Cheap to run but expensive to buy, they offer theprospect of low or zero carbon emissions, but manufacturers won’t sell themunless motorists want to buy them – and motorists won’t buy unless the priceis right and there are enough places to charge the batteries.

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EV Sales

MARCH 22, 2021

Tesla’s now-made-in-China Model 3 won the local crown with 140k sales, but the real surprise was the teeny and dirt-cheap WHGMiEV (see the linked story to decipher the acronym), launched only mid-year and reaching 120k, the second Chinese model to score 6 digits in a year. And two months into 2021 it has already scored another 57k sales!

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