IEEE Technology Time Machine 2012: Siemens the Car Maker

Source: IEEE Spectrum

As far-fetched as the idea may sound, Gernot Spiegelberg, head of development electric mobility at Siemens, delivered a presentation at the symposium in Dresden that envisioned a whole new class of players vying for ...
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The Default Decade

Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Other similarities are inescapable. The Financial Panic of 1893 was the worst depression known in America to that date, while by that decade's end the Spanish-American War had put us on the world stage as th ...
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The Continental: An Extensive Drive in Volvo’s Diesel Hybrid and Goodbye to Two (Questionable) Icons

Source: Car and Driver

Can hybrids be fun? Last week, I spent several hours behind the wheel of the Europe-only Volvo V60 D6 plug-in hybrid, and it’s so interesting that I’d like to devote a few paragraphs to it. Using the 212-hp, 2.4 ...
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Fort Kent students walk and bike to school in statewide health promotion effort

Source: Fiddlehead Focus

YOUNG AND BOLD - The younger children stepped ahead of the older students as groups of participants climbed off of school buses at Main and Pleasant Streets to make the final leg of the journey to school without the aid of an internal combu ...
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Lower Insurance for EV Drivers?

Source: HybridCars.com

Although they cost more to buy or lease than internal combustion engine equivalents, electric vehicles not only save in operation costs, it appears insurance premiums can be less as well. According to Jack R. Nerad, executive editorial director of ...
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Why did our Minister of Works and Transport endorse this technology company? Does he own stock?

Source: Barbados Free Press

“Utilizing the Start FEED unit in Barbados on our government vehicles will result in tremendous fuel costs savings, in addition to major reductions of toxic automobile emissions and assist the government in accomplishing the goal of a cleaner and h ...
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MarketsandMarkets Global Low (Zero) Emission Vehicle Market Worth $103.13 Billion by 2017

Source: iStockAnalyst

According to a new market research report "Low (Zero) Emission Vehicle Market (2012 - 2017) - By Degree of Hybridization ...
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Pictures: History of Auto Fuel Efficiency

Source: National Geographic Museum

Few inventions have shaped more facets of modern life than the car. We spend hours behind the wheel each week, we live in cities and suburbs built around the automobile, and most painfully, we burn money ...
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Work starts on Va. Capital Trail's Charles City segment

Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch

The Virginia Capital Trail is about to move forward on three fronts, all leading to Richmond. Ground was broken Thursday for a 13½-mile segment of paved, recreational trail between the Chickahominy River Bridge and C ...
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