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What Kind of Cars Do Women Actually Want?

The Truth About Cars

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. However, assuming their purchasing trends have remained consistent since roughly 2018, there are a few obvious takeaways.

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What Kind of Cars Do Women Actually Want?

The Truth About Cars

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. However, assuming their purchasing trends have remained consistent since roughly 2018, there are a few obvious takeaways.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

Cars That Think

On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. And in 2005, the Chinese computer maker Lenovo Group purchased IBM's PC business. With that, the preeminent U.S. Press coverage of the announcement was lukewarm.

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Azure Dynamics Reports Sales of 16 More Balance Hybrid Electric Vans and Buses

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Azure Dynamics Corporation, which partners with Ford commercial truck dealerships across North America to market its hybrid technology to fleet operators, reports sales of 16 additional Balance Hybrid Electric vans and buses. Goshen Coach, of Elkhart, Indiana will supply the bodies for the Littleton purchases. Tags: Brief.

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GE Oil Gas Awarded $400+M Contract for Gorgon Natural Gas Projects; GE Turbomachinery to Drive LNG Production and World’s Largest CO2 Injection Project

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GE Oil & Gas has been awarded a competitive bid, worth more than $400 Million, to deploy advanced liquefied natural gas (LNG) technology for the development of Gorgon, one of the world’s largest untapped natural gas fields, which also features the world’s largest ever CO 2 sequestration technology project. Tags: LNG.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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According to the market-analysis firm Point Carbon, if a cap-and-trade system is instituted in the United States, the demand for carbon credits could explode into a $2 to $3 trillion market. But Kyoto also allows companies to purchase “offsets”: credits from emissions-reducing projects in developing countries.

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Will CARB’s New Rules Damage EV Startups?

Revenge of the Electric Car

The new regulations will drive up the price of such conversions, putting them out of reach for most Prius owners, and ensuring that the only way to purchase a next generation eco-friendly car will be from one of the world’s two largest auto companies. The award-winning 2006 documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?

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