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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part V)

The Truth About Cars

In 1984 GM completed a deal to purchase a company called Electronic Data Systems, or EDS. By the Eighties EDS was even larger, and didn’t come cheap. The board approved a purchase of all of Perot’s stock for $750 million ($2.1B asking price with specially-created and newly-issued stock called “letter stock.”

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EV Chargers for All!

Cars That Think

Even without a son soon to be entering college, the premium prices of EVs were a turnoff. Harry decided to forego buying an EV, but he remains open to purchasing one if both the affordability and charging issues are better addressed. “I And if they make an EV purchase, they often regret it. Two obstacles stood in his way.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

Cantwell said that cap-and-trade had been discredited by the Wall Street crisis, the Enron scandal and the rocky start to a carbon credits trading system in Europe that has been subject to dizzying price fluctuations and widespread fraud. If they don’t have enough allowances to cover their emissions they must purchase more or face a penalty.

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