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History of the GEM Car and a Look at Its Future

Clean Fleet Report

A Small, Slow EV That Has Found an Expanding Niche You don’t need a high-speed sports car or heavy-duty truck when driving around your neighborhood. Global Electric Motorcars (GEM) has pioneered neighborhood electric vehicles (EVs), demonstrating a prosperous past and promising future. However, its slowness filled a particular need.

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Opinion: We Don't Need No Stinkin' Speed Warnings

The Truth About Cars

This is a horrible idea. At this point, you might point out that these systems would only start scolding drivers at speeds more than 10 mph over. No reasonable person would say that driving 15 mph over the limit in that situation is the same as flying down a neighborhood street.

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Univ of Utah studies find up to 27 seconds of mental distraction for drivers after using new hands-free technologies

Green Car Congress

One of the studies showed that it is highly distracting to use hands-free voice commands to dial phone numbers, call contacts, change music and send texts with Microsoft Cortana, Apple Siri and Google Now smartphone personal assistants, though Google Now was a bit less distracting than the others. The smartphone assistants’ scores were 0.3

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Car News: 2024 Consumer Electronics Show

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Generative AI for the Intelligent Personal Assistant uses artificial intelligence for speech processing which enable human-like conversations that allow drivers to keep their hands on the wheel and their eyes on the road. The RS touts 1,000+ hp with 0-60 mph under two seconds and a top speed of 200 mph.

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

Creative Greenius

Most have no idea. These are local investors who are very well capitalized and are personally known to the staff of the utility and city officials. It’s not their fault either – their local governments and the mainstream media have failed them big time. The rate of $0.32

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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A thinking person should ask, “How did the Leaf owner travel the unaccounted miles, the ones that were not e-miles?” has constructed prototype PHEV trucks for electric utility companies which can deliver energy to power an entire neighborhood during maintenance or repair when there is a power outage [ 4 ]. As long as a standard 1.5

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