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Junkyard Find: 1992 Geo Metro 4-door hatchback

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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. In Japan, the second-gen Cultus made you hip-conscious. My guess is that the reels turned over once, for a total of 162,150.9 Gets 100 kilometers per 4.5

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U.N. Kills Any Plans to Use Mercury as a Rocket Propellant

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Bender is referring to the 2013 Minamata Convention on Mercury , a U.N. treaty named for a city in Japan whose residents suffered from mercury poisoning from a nearby chemical factory for decades. And it’s cheap—there’s not a lot of competition with anyone looking to buy mercury.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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Cheap pays off Although the Adobe group made some key technical breakthroughs, three other components were necessary to make PostScript a runaway success not just in low-volume professional publishing but in the high-volume office environment. As noted earlier, one was a cheap laser printer. Today, even Hewlett-Packard Co.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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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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Why are some EV chargers more expensive than others?

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We do not want to waste money on cheap, low-quality commodities. 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. These plug types include the CHAdeMO standard used in Japan EVs. We want to save money. Get a free EV charger quote now >.

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BMW, Daimler and VW Propose Global e-mobility Standardization on Vehicle2Grid Communication, Harmonization of Chargers

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This diagram shows requirements and technologies mapped against the OSI 7-layer reference model for interoperability. Since the use cases are the same, there should be one common set of standards based on the ISO OSI seven-layer reference model for interoperability, the companies are suggesting. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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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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