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Looking to get in a hybrid for cheap? Used Toyota Prius 1.5 HSD 2004-2009 Review

Green Car Congress

Used Priuses, especially the Generation 2 that were made from 2004 to 2009 are becoming a bargain to buy, especially for the MPG and features you get in return. It was time to buy our first car. I knew I wanted something for her that was cheap to maintain, had a reliable automatic transmission, came with cruise control, AC.

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Volvo Buses in project researching use of second-life electric bus batteries to store solar energy

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It can also be used to buy and store electricity from the national grid when it is cheap and green, for later use. Use of the batteries in an energy warehouse gives them an extended service life which in turn means better resource utilisation and less environmental impact.

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Israel carves playground as automobile era powerhouse

Baua Electric

Participants of the gang needed to create the cheap and a advertising and marketing plan. The price range got here into steadiness handiest then Barel’s daughter realized the group may get shoe disciplines with out buying footwear. “The access to venture capital resources is pretty immediate, at least the seed stage round.”

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Gas War: Biden Admin Decides Against Refilling Dwindling Oil Reserves, Citing High Prices

The Truth About Cars

Others, such as House Natural Resources Chair Bruce Westerman (R-AR), have speculated that the White House was attempting to drive down energy prices ahead of the election. The Biden administration has a target to buy oil at $79 or lower to refill the reserve, though spent an average of about $81 a barrel in its latest purchase of 2.8

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Could Sucking Up the Seafloor Solve Battery Shortage?

Cars That Think

Texas is top of The Metals Company's list for the processing plant given the state's ports and access to cheap renewables. "We And with much of the world's high-grade resources already spent, companies have turned to low-grade mining resources that produce more waste and emissions.

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SpaceX to launch Varda Space’s first Rocket Lab-derived ‘space factory’ satellite

Teslarati

Instead of having to build and qualify their own satellites, Photon thus gives certain customers the opportunity to focus their time and resources on developing the payloads they want to deploy and services they want to operate. No need to reinvent the wheel, in other words.

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Intel Will Keep Selling RealSense Stereo Cameras

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If you want to buy a RealSense camera from a distributor, great, go ahead and do that, but I wouldn't look for much else. Intel had the resources to make sensors with excellent performance and sell them for relatively cheap, and they've done exactly that.

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