Safety related recall campaigns for motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment, including tires, reported to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration by domestic and foreign vehicle manufacturers, January 1, 1988 to December 31, 1988.

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Safety related recall campaigns for motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment, including tires, reported to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration by domestic and foreign vehicle manufacturers, January 1989 to December 1989.

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Safety related recall campaigns for motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment, including tires, reported to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration by domestic and foreign vehicle manufacturers, January 1, 1990 to December 31, 1990.

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Safety related recall campaigns for motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment, including tires, reported to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration by domestic and foreign vehicle manufacturers, January 1, 1991 to December 31, 1991.

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Safety related recall campaigns for motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment, including tires, reported to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration by domestic and foreign vehicle manufacturers, January 1, 1993 to December 31, 1993.

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Safety related recall campaigns for motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment, including tires, reported to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration by domestic and foreign vehicle manufacturers, January 1, 1994 to December 31, 1994.

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Safety related recall campaigns for motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment, including tires, reported to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration by domestic and foreign vehicle manufacturers, January 1, 1995 to December 31, 1995.

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Safety related recall campaigns for motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment, including tires, reported to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration by domestic and foreign vehicle manufacturers, January 1, 1996 to December 31, 1996.

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Safety related recall campaigns for motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment, including tires, reported to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration by domestic and foreign vehicle manufacturers, January 1, 1998 to December 31, 1998.

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Motor vehicle safety. Hearing before the Surface Transportation Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, United States Senate, Eighty-sixth Congress, second session, on H.R. 1341, an act to require passenger-carrying motor vehicles purchased for use by the federal government to meet certain safety standards. June 22, 1960.

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The Art of Adaptation : A study on the Europeanization of Finland's foreign and security policy

This study examines how Finnish foreign and security policy has been influenced by the European Union and its Common Foreign and Security Policy. It points to a growing interplay and misfit between the external expectations originating from the European level and the domestic expectations and traditional ways-of-doing-things. It is concluded that the deepening European integration in the sphere of foreign, security and defence policy has played a significant role in a number of transformations in the Finnish policies since 1995. New, more European, meanings have been attached to the key concepts of Finnish foreign and security policy. Neutrality and traditional peacekeeping have been replaced by a minimalist reading of military non-alignment and participation in crisis management operations and EU battle groups. Traditional small state identity has been recast more and more as small member stateness . At the same time Finland has entered an era of post-consensus in national foreign and security policy. A key theoretical argument in the background of the study is that collective understandings attached to European policies, when not resonating well with domestic understandings, cause adaptation pressures on domestic-level processes and may lead to changes in the way interests and identities are constructed. This means that Europeanization is principally seen as identity reconstruction. Consequently, the theoretical framework of the study builds on the Europeanization research literature and constructivist IR theory on state identity. Foreign and security policy is defined as the practice in which state identity is reproduced, and the key foreign and security policy concepts are seen as the vehicles of identity production. It is concluded that for Finland, participation in the EU s foreign, security and defence policies represents not only a tool for responding to the changes in the international security environment but also a new means of self-identification. Concerning the Finnish attempts of projecting national interests on the European security policy agenda, it is concluded that they mainly relate to the compatibility of the potential development of EU s defence dimension with the Finnish military non-alignment. Although neutrality was cast aside in the official security policy when Finland joined the EU, the analysis shows that its impact has continued in the domestic political debate and in the mind-set of the decision-makers. The primary research material includes official Finnish foreign and security policy documentation and the related parliamentary debates from 1994 to 2007. This study serves also as a comprehensive empirical overview on Finland s reactions and contributions to the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy.

The emergence of battery electric vehicles : A NZ manufacturing opportunity?

Personal passenger transport faces several challenges in the coming decades: depletion of cheap oil reserves, increasing congestion, localised pollution, the need for reduced carbon emissions and the long term goal of sustainability. One way of solving some of these problems could be to introduce comfortable, energy efficient, battery electric vehicles.

Currently, hybrid vehicles have been presented as a means to reducing the transportation related oil demand. New developments in materials and technologies have made them, cleaner and safer as well as more fuel efficient. However, hybrids will only prolong the use of oil until alternatively fuelled vehicles are developed.

One long term alternative is the battery electric vehicle (BEV). A BEV designed to be light, aerodynamic with high efficiency drive train and latest battery technology would have a performance comparable to a typical internal combustion engine vehicle (ICEV). Recent developments in virtual engineering, rapid prototyping and advanced manufacturing might enable low-cost development of niche market BEV’s designed and built in New Zealand for export markets.

This work examines the collaborative development of a twin seat BEV using new materials and latest technologies by the University of Waikato’s Engineering Department and a group of NZ and foreign companies. The car will be used to research the potential of BEVs and will also compete in the Commuter Class of the World Solar Challenge in 2007.