Hallier, who likes to press personalized toy cabs into the hands of executives he meets, got a plug for Show Media during the U.S. Open tennis tournament last summer when its displays were featured in a series of Nike videos starring boxing promoter Don King.
McLaren is set to officially unveil its 903-horsepower P1 hybrid supercar at the Geneva show, and Volkswagen will show off its new XL1 plug-in hybrid, which gets a whopping 261 miles to the gallon.
Now, you bring your car to a service station, plug it in to a computer and the diagnostics show up immediately.
It's seriously cool -- the clients all see the server's tuners as their own, so the experience is seamless, and since it all runs on the Tru2way stack, it doesn't matter what kind of client you plug in -- the three clients on the show floor were running interfaces from Intel, Comcast (Rovi), and Digeo.
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Get a plug by Oprah Winfrey, or maybe an appearance on the Today show.
The marquee green car for the show was the Fusion Energi, a production-intent plug-in hybrid with, Ford says, a combined fuel economy of over 100 MPGe (a measure of gasoline-gallon energy equivalence).
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Hybrids--both traditional ones and the plug-in variety--are also generating buzz at this year's show.
Akerson, speaking on the sidelines of the Automotive News World Congress during the Detroit auto show, said he has been pleased with consumer response to the newly launched Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid, so much so that GM now expects to sell more than 25, 000 Volts in 2011 and will add another Volt-like product, perhaps in the form of a small electric van, in 2012 or 2013.
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At last month's Frankfurt motor show almost every big carmaker could boast of new hybrids in the pipeline, some of them plug-ins, and prototype all-electric vehicles were all over the place.
Freshdesk had initially hoped its results would show apps with customer support crushing their support-less counterparts since the company offers app developers a free plug-in software product, MobiHelp, to serve as a layered-on customer support solution.
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