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Eaton to develop affordable home refueling station for natural gas vehicles; liquid piston technology

Green Car Congress

Eaton Corporation will develop an affordable home refueling station for natural gas vehicles, utilizing existing natural gas sources in the home and innovative compressor technology. and Milwaukee and the Advanced Hydraulics group in Eden Prairie, Minn. The effort is funded in part by a $3.4-million Earlier post.).

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Azure Dynamics signs HEV/EV sales/service agreements with 76 additional dealerships

Green Car Congress

Azure Dynamics Corporation has signed agreements with 76 additional dealerships to represent Azure’s products including the Transit Connect Electric and the Balance Hybrid Electric in key markets across North America. The new agreements bring the total number of dealerships in the Azure program to 103.

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

Clean Fleet Report

I’ve always wondered how Harley would market its silent motorcycles. But the battery-powered two-wheelers get separate showrooms, sales methodologies and marketing programs aimed at different target audience. LiveWire Labs in Silicon Valley will communicate with Harley-Davidson in Milwaukee to “pioneer the future of motorcycling.”

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

Cars That Think

As author David Morton noted in his 2006 book Sound Recording: The Life Story of a Technology , 3M was one of the best-suited companies on the market to help Brush out. A number of years ago, back when I lived in Milwaukee, I found a couple of blank reel-to-reel tapes created by 3M using the Scotch name. inch floppy. inch floppy.

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Jim Wangers, the Godfather of the GTO, useless at 96

Baua Electric

Truth was we were taking Pontiac performance off the race track, like the Corporation wanted, and putting it on the street,” with the GTO, “like the Corporation didn’t want,” wrote Wangers in his reserve Glory Days. Wangers took it as an indication and attempted his hand working a automobile dealership in Milwaukee.

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IEEE STEM Activity Kits Are In Demand at 150 U.S. Public Libraries

Cars That Think

The collections have been made possible by the IEEE Region 4 Science Kits for Public Libraries program with funding from Region 4 members and corporate sponsors. Through the generosity of the section’s members and a few corporate donors, more than 25 libraries in the Chicago area began circulating the science kits.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

.” Although the carshare service model has been well established over the past 15 years, there have been some significant innovations in the market recently. Automakers have entered this market with mixed results, building substantial membership levels in only a few years, but they are also challenged with the new MaaS business model.

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