article thumbnail

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

The Truth About Cars

& Location information was more accurate than a few years prior, given increasing civilian and corporate access to military-grade GPS information. This cringy clip shows an Eighty Eight with Guidestar navigating the tony Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills, and arriving at a suitably contemporary mansion. Let me know.

Parts 100
article thumbnail

Junkyard Find: 1959 Renault Dauphine

The Truth About Cars

Of all those companies, Renault was the only one to score big-time North American sales success. The cheapest '60 Falcon four-door cost just $1,974 ($19,092 in 2023 dollars), and it was a genuine Detroit machine with a six-cylinder engine. Peugeot stuck it out until 1991 , when the last new 405s hit American streets.

article thumbnail

GM Working with Communities to Develop Roadmap For Plug-in Infrastructure

Green Car Congress

Employers (3 major corporations) provide work-place charging (25 park/charge spots) and employee vehicle purchase incentives (add’l $2,500/vehicle); Commit/fund corporate fleet purchases (25 vehicles). Large local employers (as early adopters). Local Universities. Cities have an indispensable role in making plug-in vehicles successful.

Plug-in 150
article thumbnail

Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

More Recharging Detroit The future of the U.S. and we must do it quickly to save Detroit. Developing a domestic car-battery industry should be the focus of both corporations and the U.S. 107.12% Rite Aid Corporation 0.66 40.40% Unisys Corporation 1.49 6.23% Lam Research Corporation 27.89 To keep U.S.

2009 39
article thumbnail

MAEAA Web Links

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

PlymouthHorizon : RLewits Home Page, car was for sale but he sold it. PowerBrakes/Vacuum Pumps : A nice website with information on the GM12 volt vacuum pump Why Wait for Detroit? Pontiac Fiero : rechargedwith solar array. Porsche911T : D. Discover the potential!

article thumbnail

How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

We believe such production models could be available for sale in three years."Furia which hopes to sell cars here in three to five years, used the Detroit Auto Show to display a prototype sedan it says can run 60 miles on batteries developed in-house and another 190 miles on a gas/electric system. Detroit Free Press ).

Plug-in 45
article thumbnail

Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The car came straight to Omaha from the Detroit auto show. BYDs breakthrough all-electric E6, photographed at this years Detroit auto show. MidAmericans David Sokol, BYDs Wang, and company advisor Li Lu flew with Sokol from Detroit to Omaha so that Wang could meet Buffett in person. 107.12% Rite Aid Corporation 0.66

BYD 62