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Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

Green Car Congress

Trees are natural carbon sinks; they absorb carbon dioxide by photosynthesis, some of which is stored as carbon compounds in the wood—both during growth and even after harvesting, in the form of some wood products. Underground, forest soils and root structures store even more carbon. Calculating stored carbon; “additionality”.

Carbon 150
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Chevrolet Cruze station wagon to debut in Geneva; not for North America

Green Car Congress

The station wagon complements the Cruze sedan and hatchback, which together have combined sales of more than 1 million vehicles globally since launch in 2009. The new station wagon is not planned for sale in North America. Chevrolet Cruze station wagon. Click to enlarge. In addition to the current 1.6L gasoline engines, a new 1.4L

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THE UNOBVIOUS ONES: Serving to Genesis Canada promote ‘anything else that drives benefit’ outdoor untouched automobiles

Baua Electric

I could look at the dealer statements and in five minutes tell what’s not working in the store.” He held diverse roles at Nissan and upcoming Mitsubishi, and upcoming joined Hyundai in 2018 as a district gross sales supervisor. “I Sujaa has a four-person crew at Mazda’s head employment in Richmond Hill, Ont.

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Green Friday | Black Friday

My Energi

Each person can enter multiple times and the 9 Lucky Winners will be announced on Black Friday | Green Friday – 27th November 2020! Gallagher’s Music – Grimsby and Cleethorpes only music store. No guitar is the same and each has a unique personality and tone, something you can’t hear or feel when purchasing online.

Green 52
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Why Haven't Hoverbikes Taken Off?

Cars That Think

The challenge—in which 3,800 teams from 100 countries participated—was to “design and build a safe, quiet, ultra-compact, near-VTOL personal flying device capable of flying 20 miles [32 kilometers] while carrying a single person.” But 16 years after its 2008 maiden flight, the $85,000 Aero-X is still not available for sale.

Kansas 80
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The Day the U.S. TV Industry Died

Cars That Think

But at about $1000, the flat tube is not a consumer product and instead is benefiting Zenith’s latest focus of interest-its relatively new and highly profitable personal computer business. Zenith introduces first microprocessor-based tuning system and first cable-ready receiver; buys Heath to get into the personal computer business.

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Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported

Cars That Think

Terry Byland is the only person to have received this kind of implant in both eyes. I] went from being just a person that was doing the testing to being a spokesman,” he remembers. By June 2015, Byland was the only person on the planet with two bionic eyes. It was her Argus II retinal implant system powering down. Bob O’Connor.