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SWISS SQUEEZE (Part 1 of 2 ).
Byline: DUTCH MANDEL, ROGER HART, BOB GRITZINGER, MATT DAVIS
So many people, so many cars, what's not to like?
Everything we've come to know about the annual Geneva Auto Salon at the Palexpo Center stayed true to form. More than any other international auto show, Geneva remains the best place to see people from every car company and every design house. Its neutral setting inspires an openness not felt at the home court of Frankfurt, Paris, Detroit or Tokyo. Add the serious carrozzeria from Italy and the fanciful car builders from Switzerland and crowd them all on a small show floor, compared with the others, and you get a big return on human contacts. ...
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- Magazine article from: AutoWeek April 5, 2004 700+ words
...shores by 2005 (AW, March 22). Even more significant Sources tell AutoWeek that Italdesign-Giugiaro's Toyota Alessandro Volta hybrid gas-electric sports car, named our Most Significant car at the Geneva motor show (AW, March 15...
- Bicentennial of Alessandro Volta's Invention of the "Electric Pile": Discovery...
- Magazine article from: Canadian Chemical News Conway, B.E. January 1, 2000 700+ words
...Electrochemistry (ISE) has recently celebrated the 200th anniversary of the invention of the so-called electric "pile" by Alessandro Volta, at a major conference held in the historic university town of Pavia, Italy, where most of Volta's research and many...
- Hybrid highlight: Geneva Motor Show sees compact supercar which points to...
- Magazine article from: The Engineer Fowler, David March 5, 2004 700+ words
...Geneva Motor Show. The Toyota Alessandro Volta, a collaboration between...said Guigiaro. 'With the Alessandro Volta, we have achieved the same...electric motors give the Alessandro Volta a 0-100Kph acceleration...
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- Magazine article from: AutoWeek June 23, 2008 700+ words
...derivation of the Ferrari Enzo) as Best in Show, the BMW M5 concept as Most Fun, the Italdesign-Giugiaro Toyota Alessandro Volta as Most Signifi-cant and the Rolls-Royce 100EX as Best Concept. Also appearing: Lamborghini Murcielago...
- TOYOTA ATTACKS URBAN JUNGLE.(News)
- Magazine article from: AutoWeek March 6, 2006 700+ words
...usually make a big splash at Geneva, its most significant show car to date being the 2004 Italdesign-Giugiaro Toyota Alessandro Volta. Toyota holds true to this under-the-radar pattern with the tiny Urban Cruiser concept. Based on the same...
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- Newspaper article from: Curriculum Review October 1, 2003 700+ words
Count Alessandro Volta, an Italian physicist and pioneer in electricity, is credited...cell This battery is an example of the very first one created by Alessandro Volta in 1800. Materials: Lemons, coins (such as copper pennies...
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- Magazine article from: Canadian Chemical News Kauffman, George B. January 1, 2005 700+ words
...Habashi has included photographs of eight stamps among the figures as well as a 10,000 live Italian banknote depicting Alessandro Volta and his Voltaic pile. Name and subject indexes make the book extremely user-friendly. George B. Kauffman is a contributing...
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- Magazine article from: Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science Plous, Evan March 22, 2007 700+ words
...between a cathode and an anode through an electrolyte matrix has been relatively unchanged (Morgenstern 2004). When Alessandro Volta invented the modern battery, he used zinc and copper separated by a salt solution. Although this battery worked, the...
Source: HighBeam Research, SWISS SQUEEZE (Part 1 of 2 ).