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Green Car Congress
AUGUST 23, 2010
The basics of the D975 specification for diesel fuel, written to describe a particular cut from a barrel of petroleum oil, have been relatively unchanged since first approval in 1949. Tags: Brief. Steven Westbrook, chairman of ASTM International Subcommittee D02.E0.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 16, 2009
It took 48 years to grow from 2,300 vehicles in 1949 to one million in 1997; the second million took 6.5 Tags: Brief. “Compared with other metropolises in the world, the growth of vehicles in Beijing is dramatic,” said Guo Jifu, researcher with the Beijing Municipal Communication Research Center.
Green Car Congress
MAY 6, 2010
In 2009, energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in the United States saw their largest absolute and percentage annual decline (405 million metric tons or 7.0%) since the start of US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) comprehensive record of annual energy data that begins in 1949. Tags: Climate Change Emissions. mpg US in 2009.
Revenge of the Electric Car
OCTOBER 5, 2008
GM Tech Center, Designed by Eero Saairnen 1949. Tags: Production Diary Production News Past Shoots EV Events GM Chevy Volt. To our surprise, some of the industrial battery testing equipment came from Aerovironment, the company who had built the SunRaycer and Impact EV prototypes back in the early 1990s.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
The probability of an exploratory oil well being successful was 20% in 1949 and just 16% in the late 1960s, but by 2007 that figure had risen to 69%; today it’s around 50%, according to the US Energy Information Administration.
EV Central
APRIL 8, 2024
READ MORE: Abarth 500e landing with $60,500 price tag, nudging Tesla Model 3 money READ MORE: Driven: Abarth 500e EV READ MORE: 2024 Fiat 500e review: Is this pint-sized electric vehicle worth the price premium over the GWM Ora and MG4 Excite? The Abarth 600e is based on the Fiat 600e which is unlikely to be sold in Australia.
The Truth About Cars
APRIL 24, 2023
The firewall tag says it's a 59V Deluxe, which the Standard Catalog describes as being built only for "special order sales, Marshal sales, fleet sales and sales outside the United States." The data plate tells us that this car was built at the South Bend plant , fairly deep into the model year.
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