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- Daily Debrief: GM goes lean and green
- CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi chats with CarTech Senior Editor Wayne Cunningham about GM's decision to close four North American truck manufacturing plants. The news behind the headline indicates a trend toward smaller vehicles and a push to roll out the company's hybrid car, the Chevy Volt.
- Tags: General Motors Corp., Manufacturing, News, kara tsuboi, wayne cunningham, chevrolet, chevy volt, hummer, green, hybrid, prius, electric car, environment
- Videos 2008-06-03
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- Renting a car: it'll cost you to save on gas
- Renting a car: it'll cost you to save on gasJust drive a low emission car insteadInstead of trying to join the queue for a Hybrid, just choose a low emission car from the normal range.A Honda Fit or other small rentals will give up to 50mpg, and have A/C which...
- Tags: car
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Intel's roadmap comes into focus: Can rivals respond?
- Intel's developer forum in San Francisco has more than its share of chest thumping and as the roadmap comes into focus you really wonder how competitors will respond. To be sure, Intel won't have a cakewalk, but it's making a lot of waves, creating new markets (Netbooks...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Chip, Atom, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- McCain's copyright problem: oh, the hypocrisy
- McCain's copyright problem: oh, the hypocrisyAnother hit job on McCainLooks like another leftist hit job on McCain to me. Too bad McCain is going to win anyway! :-)RE: McCain's copyright problem: oh, the hypocrisyThis is just petty politics on Browne's part. This bleeding heart liberal would not have said a...
- Tags: hypocrisy, copyright problem, John McCain
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- When equivalence is the wrong question
- When equivalence is the wrong questionSo, replace one tool with many?Since Microsoft Word can be used for a varity of tasks, and Writer can not, therefore one must use writer and a varity of other tools to do the work of one program.And here you claim that open source is...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Databases, Microsoft Access, tool, Murph, Microsoft Office, database
- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
- 2008 GMC Yukon Hybrid
- Photo gallery:2008 GMC Yukon HybridThe 2008 GMC Yukon Hybrid is either the first guilt-free full-size SUV or an example of unrestrained excess. The Yukon is big, with three rows of seating and a cliff-like front-end. And it uses one of the bigger engines available in the Yukon line, a 6-liter...
- Tags: Engineering, cabin electronic, GMC Yukon, GMC Yukon Hybrid, Yukon Hybrid, battery, gas pedal, pedal
- Product reviews 2008-08-08
- Rejaw launches, but seems a little Twittery
- If Twitter is a busted old '66 El Camino, then Rejaw is a Toyota Prius. The new kid on the block claims to be better, but it's more fun to ride around with your friends in a classic car with the windows down and the breaks squeaking. ...
- Tags: twitter, rejaw, desktops, corporate communications, hardware, marketing, andrew mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Kelley names 2008's greenest cars. Or, another reason to buy a way-cute Mini Cooper.
- Having owned exactly two cars in my life, I have consulted the Kelley Blue Book Web site exactly once: To take a guess at how much my Volkswagen Jetta could fetch when it was totalled last year. (Note, I wasn't driving it when said total happened. Ironically someone totalled their...
- Tags: Car, Alternative Fuel, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- Car crash on Wall Street: many injuries and heavy losses
- Car crash on Wall Street: many injuries and heavy lossesHolding our breathThe auto-owning public is holding their collective breath to see what comes next. You don't want to be the person that paid an arm and a leg for a Prius then found out a year later there were...
- Tags: heavy loss
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Chrysler to offer Wi-Fi in 2009 autos
- Chrysler to offer Wi-Fi in 2009 autosMaybe just maybeChrysler should start working on the quality of their cars and leave the installation of gizmos to car owners who like modding their cars. Back to the basics, a quality product that can hold a candle to the likes of Toyota. Disclaimer:...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Ford Motors, Chrysler LLC, Wi-Fi
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- Auto MPG in the US, per the EPA rankings: Lamborghini #1 gas hawg
- Auto MPG in the US, per the EPA rankings: Lamborghini #1 gas hawgcomparing apples and ....When you state "the least efficient car in every category is european" you fail to see that the cars listed as the least efficient connot be compared to the most efficient cars. I dont see...
- Tags: Smart Cars, Lamborghini, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Discussion threads 2008-06-22
- Auto MPG in the US, per the EPA rankings: Lamborghini #1 gas hawg
- Here you can see the Environmental Protection Agency's gas mileage ratings on cars you can buy in the U.S. The Toyota Prius, called by some denigrators, "The Pius," has the best ranking. Lamborghinis the worst. In fact the worst car in each category is European-made. ...
- Tags: Car, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toyota Prius, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-21
- Car makers are doing all they can, you and I are the problem
- Car makers are doing all they can, you and I are the problem....Not buying it Harry. People didn't buy the more efficient vehicles because they were not marketed with the same "sexy" fervor as the larger and less efficient ones. That is a fact. Almost every car commercial or advertisement...
- Tags: Manufacturing, I-told-you-so, Blame Game, big vehicle, efficient vehicle
- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
- Too green? Too much information? Global warming a natural process? Give up yet?
- If you believe a rag published in Manhattan, many Americans are overloaded with eco-info, advice on what to do to be more responsible in using the earth's resources. The explosion of green as marketing and political and social and ethical and trendy and...well, you know. We're just greening all...
- Tags: Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- America's ready. Where the electric car? The fuel cell SUV?
- America's ready. Where the electric car? The fuel cell SUV?One thing I really wish for...Is that GMC brings back the original EV1.nah, I'll just get a Th!nk Ox when they are availableI have my PriusNice to finally have a car that isn't a penis substitute. I fill...
- Tags: Fuel cells, fuel cell, SUV
- Discussion threads 2008-06-01
- America's ready. Where's the electric car? The fuel cell SUV?
- The American consumer has spoken: give us smaller or lighter or more efficient cars. Not some day. Now. But as is too often the case, the public is way ahead of the business and marketing folks. Example: my daughter's old car recently developed serious...
- Tags: Fuel Cell, America, SUV, Toyota Motor Corp., American Consumer, Fuel Cells, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-01
- Will the sun power your future iPhone?
- Will the sun power your future iPhone?Yes!!That's "Thinking Different"All devices?Give me a small panel that I can put onto any device that charges via mini-USB (not Apple devices though, they have their own connectors. Suckers). Better yet, just start putting this on everything-- it needn't be under the...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Solar Powered, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-05-28
- Universal coverage changes the debate
- Universal coverage changes the debateJust one point"Questions of how much money is spent on drugs cease being academic. Government can freely decide what people can and can’t take."This is quite right. You can take what ever your doctors prescribes. You have to pay for it after all. The visit to...
- Tags: Financial Planning, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, insurance, health care
- Discussion threads 2008-05-16
- Hybrid cars becoming ever more political
- Hybrid cars becoming ever more politicalThey have printable solar cells nowShould be easy to cover cars with solar cells.RE: Hybrid cars becoming ever more politicalThe power the corps have over the government should be disconcerting to all of you. As for the alternatives, of course Detroit is hemming and hawing....
- Tags: Engineering, Insurance, Hybrid-car, ever-more
- Discussion threads 2008-04-03
- Hybrid cars becoming ever more political
- It's not just in California where hybrid and plug-in cars are a political issue. The Union of Concerned Scientists UCS is working to take the issue global. They have launched a campaign to get General Motors, still the latrgest car manufacturer based in America, to speed up its...
- Tags: Car, Plug-in, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
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