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

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Half a decade later Smith was gone, and the remaining brass began to unwind the costly EDS and Hughes deals and return GM to its standard operating procedure. But behind the layers of finance and paperwork, Guidestar GPS was developed. And the first time the public got to see it was in 1994 in a very exciting debut.

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8-state alliance releases action plan to put 3.3M ZEVs on their roads by 2025

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The partner states are California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont. It also includes working with automakers and dealers to identify, evaluate, and implement creative financing approaches and other effective strategies to reduce vehicle purchase price and increase ZEV sales.

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Electric Vehicle Spotlight: Financing Tesla Cybertruck 

EV Life

In this article, we’re going to check out some of the specs, design, and performance of the Tesla Cybertruck and show you how you can save money on one by financing through EV Life. Interior The interior of the four-door, six-seater Cybertruck is stripped down and minimal, even by Tesla standards. It’s that easy.

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The State of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Electrification

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Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Washington, and Vermont are adopting the same rules. To succeed, public charging networks will require standardization to ensure interoperability. However, that is likely to change. With approval from the U.S.

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DOE to award $11M to 20 new Clean Cities projects for alt fuel cars and trucks

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availability of transportation fuels across Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. the use of alternative fuels; and coordinating standards for fuel quality. The Unlocking Private Sector Financing for Alternative Fuel Vehicles and. Alternative Fuels Markets in New England will work to diversify the.

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EV Tax Credit: The Guide Your Car Dealer Doesn’t Want You To Read

EV Life

EV Climate Loan: Getting the Most Out of Your EV Incentives Traditional auto lenders don’t believe EVs should be financed differently than gas-powered cars, but we do. Finance your EV for less. If you purchase your EV in January, it could take up to 18 months to see the benefits of your tax credit in your tax return.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

The architecture goes back to the TX-2, built with 32 program counters at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratories in the late 1950s. Networking: The Story of Ethernet By today’s standards the Alto was not a particularly powerful computer. A lot of the ideas in Ada [the standard programming language of the U.S.

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