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Navigant Research forecasts new EV global sales of > 346,000 units in 2014; 10 predictions for the year

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Taking legal action over the ZEV mandates would be a repeat of the late 1990s: automakers filed a federal lawsuit that led California to water down its ZEV requirements beginning in 2001, thus effectively ending most automakers electric vehicle (EV) programs for more than a decade. Tesla Motors will have a bumpy year. million tons.

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The Real Story of Pixar

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The story, instead, goes back to a time when I and other researchers in computer graphics scattered around the United States began to see the technology as allowing a new art form: the creation of digitally animated movies. Lucasfilm did go for it, and Steve Jobs became the venture capitalist who financed Pixar. Ross Perot.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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The South Korean government had established the institute in 1971 with financing from the United States Agency for International Development and had invited. Patents: 15 (3 in the United States, 12 in South Korea). Frederick E. Since 2000, the country has been a major importer of South Korean chips. Kim Choong-Ki.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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The 15 th Congress, also known as the 15 th Conference of Parties, or COP 15, was initially intended to be a largely procedural summit, with many major negotiating points settled and most environmental ministers prepared to sign a binding emissions treaty that contained specific emissions targets as well as commitments to financing structures.

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The Most Powerful Greenius In America

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My new solar system only needs to be 2 kilowatts now instead of 4 – which is good because solar’s still too damn expensive and the process for putting AB 811 financing in place is taking too damn long, (and that’s another Greenius post that I’m still working on).

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