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Junkyard Find: 1992 Pontiac LeMans SE Aerocoupe

The Truth About Cars

Part of this is due to the action-packed rise and fall of the Daewoo brand here, the 1999-2002 rollercoaster ride that included the company's CEO going on the lam to evade embezzlement charges, but mostly it's because of Daewoo's fascinating role in The General's Greater East Asia Co-Misery Sphere. The LeMans was cheap but not that cheap.

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KPMG study identifies 10 sustainability “megaforces” with accelerating impacts on business; imperative of sustainability changing the automotive business radically

Green Car Congress

The KPMG study, “Expect the Unexpected: Building Business Value in a Changing World”, explores issues such as climate change, energy and fuel volatility, water availability and cost and resource availability, as well as population growth spawning new urban centers. —“Expect the Unexpected: Building Business Value in a Changing World”.

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Our Hands-On Citizen-Scientist

Cars That Think

That project reinforces a theme running through many of Dave’s projects: The only way most nonspecialists can explore these pursuits themselves is by using materials at hand or scored on the cheap. The exoplanet detector is an absolute delight for the frugal DIYer.

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Alpine Says A110 Successor Will Come to United States, Outlines Expansion Plan

The Truth About Cars

European outlets have suggested that Alpine is hoping to build something to compete with the Porsche Taycan. But the brand isn’t known for SUVs and crossovers, it’s known for building extremely lightweight performance and race cars in small quantities. One could have also said that of Porsche in 2002.

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SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell to oversee Starship program, Starbase facilities

Teslarati

Hired in 2002, it’s entirely possible that SpaceX wouldn’t have survived if her sales acumen hadn’t convinced NASA to take a billion-dollar bet on the company in 2008.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. Over time, however, the research focus in bidirectional EV applications shifted from the grid to homes and commercial buildings.

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Junkyard Find: Nissan Leafpocalypse in California

The Truth About Cars

These cars had NiMH batteries and were sold/leased in California from 1997 through 2002 (only fleet buyers could get them for 1997-2001). Good replacement batteries for these cars aren't cheap. It must have been fun building the filthy gas-powered devices used in this TV commercial. Nissan Leaf in California wrecking yard.

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