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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

Green Car Congress

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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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. Project activities include: harmonizing. assessment and labeling.

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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. How to determine if you can use the EV tax credit? How our EV Climate Loan works: Pre-qualify in minutes.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

Mr. Raskin had proposed a computer that could be hooked up to a standard television set. to handle the finances of the Macintosh project. However, most standard computer displays were capable of holding 80 characters, and the portable computers with less capability were very inconvenient to use. in Cupertino, Calif.,

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

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It covers ten Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont). Financing Investments and Other Public Expenditures. Allowance value can be used to finance government expenditures of various kinds.

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