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• hybrid electric vehicles, which combine an electric motor with a conventional internal combustion engine
• battery electric vehicles, which rely solely on an electric motor - no conventional internal combustion engines
• plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, which combine an electric motor with a conventional internal combustion engine, but that can only run on electric power for short stints
• neighbourhood electric vehicles, which are battery powered vehicles that can only be used for lower speed limits, i.e., city driving, no highways. (As most students enrolled in mechanic training programs will already be aware, electric cars are, in general, slower to accelerate than their conventionally-powered counterparts.)

Parts of electric vehicles Students at mechanic colleges will also have to familiarize themselves with electric systems. Mechanic training will include an explanation of the different parts that make up an electric vehicle, including:

• battery
• fuse
• manual power switch - enables graduates of mechanic training to turn off the power in order to carry out repair work
• shunt - enables graduates of mechanic colleges to measure how much energy is being channeled through the system
• motor controller - determines how much of the car's energy should be applied to the motor
• throttle
• key - just as in a conventional car, ignites the system

Particularities of electric vehicles Even students of mechanic colleges who have no intention of specializing in electric vehicle production or repair will have to pick up some basic information on electric vehicles. What kind of information might students in mechanic training have to learn?

• that parts for electric cars can be more expensive than for conventional cars
• electric cars have quieter engines than conventional cars
• a car battery can usually be charged over night
• some provinces, states and municipalities feature charging stations in commercial parking lots
• electric cars have lower top speeds than their conventional counterparts
• electric cars emit less CO2 than their conventional counterparts (even when adjusted for different sources of electricity)
• electric cars require less frequent maintenance than their conventional counterparts (as students in mechanic training learn, they don't require oil changes, but it is still necessary to rotates the tires, maintain the air conditioning, repair the brakes, etc.)

These are just some of the new concepts related to electric vehicles that mechanic schools can expect to be adding to their curriculums in the years to come.

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Rima Hammoudi is an SEO Copywriter at Higher Education Marketing, a leading Web marketing firm specializing in Google Analytics, Education Lead Generation, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Mobile SMS Alerts, Social Media Marketing and Pay Per Click Marketing, among other Web marketing services and tools.


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CarSales.com Limited - carsales.com.au

The undisputed leader in selling used cars online boasting more than 200,000 cars for sale is carsales.com Limited, but when you look at it closely their website reveals that more than 65% (145,000) of their car listings are provided by commercial car dealerships throughout Australia. This is great for people that don't want to do the typical visit to car yards to look at cars in person, but ultimately means that if you want to find a car for sale by a private individual you'll need to look beyond the flood of dealer listings.

How up to date these listings are is also questionable with a quick ring around revealing that several dealership cars were no longer available. We were, however, assured that similar stock would be coming in shortly.

News Limited - carsguide.com.au

Marketing efforts by the News Limited giant is attempting to place CarsGuide in the mind of Australians that they are the number two in online car sales, however from an inventory perspective this is not the case and their proportion of private to dealer cars is worse than that of CarSales.com Limited. CarsGuide.com.au lists more than 125,000 cars on their website, however only 12,000 of these are listings by private individuals which equates to more than 90% of their online stock coming from car dealerships. The same stock that is listed on CarSales.

Recent marketing efforts by CarsGuide declares themselves as being the "smart place" to sell your car online, with a strong emphasis towards the private seller market. Whether they will succeed in improving their ratio of dealer cars versus private cars is yet to be seen. Instilling in people that they are "stupid" if they don't advertise on my site is not the marketing angle I would have chosen, but time will tell.

Given the similar numbers of cars from dealerships between CarsGuide and CarSales we can assume that they have very similar dealer inventory. Therefore if you were looking for a new or used car from a dealership than it wouldn't matter if you choose one site or the other as they essentially contain the same database of cars from dealerships throughout Australia.

Telstra - tradingpost.com.au

Despite clear SEO techniques and traditional marketing adopted by Telstra, their market penetration in the private seller space continues to struggle despite the Trading Post's long history of being the place to buy and sell from private individuals dating back several decades - well before the internet was mainstream.

A search for "all cars" on their website reveals in excess of 110,000 results, however, when you look closely more than 83,500 of these listings are from car dealerships making up 85% of their online inventory. Unfortunately for TradingPost their online inventory makes it clear that they are a long way behind CarSales and CarsGuide, despite what they're marketing attempts to portray.

eBay Motors - cars.ebay.com.au

eBay is an intriguing competitor because they have taken a similar approach to Telstra by denying users the ability to remove dealer cars from search results until after the initial results are given- where advanced refining options are then revealed. A quick analysis is all that's required here because eBay Motors Australia only has a little over 17,000 cars listed for sale, 11,000 of which are from dealers, and just 6,000 from private sellers. Whilst their ratio between dealer and private listings is similar to CarSales at 65%, the lacking number of listings does not demonstrate eBay as a one stop shop when it comes to buying cars online in Australia.

eBay - Gumtree.com.au

The reason eBay is intriguing in this market is because they purchased a well known free private listings website known as "Gumtree.com.au" quite some time ago, which is exceptionally popular in regional areas throughout Australia. What makes Gumtree unique compared to the aforementioned websites is that it does not list car dealership vehicles and is 100% private seller cars only and contains an inventory of over 60,000 private cars for sale. This puts it ahead of everyone else for private car listings including being marginally ahead of the believed market leader CarSales.com.au.

However, the biggest question that remains is why did eBay purchase Gumtree.com.au when it is a completely free website with no charge for listings; a stark contrast to eBay's traditional pricing model on the well known auction website eBay.com.au. Perhaps eBay considered Gumtree‘s market dominance a threat to eBay's ongoing success in Australia and purchased it to protect their interests? If that is the case one would conclude that Gumtree will not remain a free website for the foreseeable future.

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Hayley Woodgate is degree qualified in Media, Marketing and Public Relations and has more than ten years experience working alongside some of Australias largest companies. While having worked in a number of sectors, her main area of expertise is the automotive industry with a recent focus on the online car sales marketplace; gained while working with Boost Classifieds - Used Cars and other well known automotive companies.

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The online car sales market in Australia has been dominated by CarSales.com.au for the last fifteen years however new players in the market are pushing hard to fight for a share of the market.

However any effort to compete may be in vain as one of the biggest challenges for other used car sales related websites is to appear in search enginge result pages (SERP) for the search terms "car sales" and "used cars". There is a distinct advantage to the domain name CarSales.com as it naturally dominates search engine results for the search query "car sales", yet there is some variation in SERP position for the next most popular search query "used cars".

The TradingPost.com.au has recently made a significant effort to compete with the search term "used cars" with SEO optimization techniques as their website has been on the first page of search queries in recent months. It has began appearing as the number 1 result for the Australian version of Google (www.google.com.au) lately, and is rotating it's position with the otherwise dominant CarSales.com.au.

Another competitor in the space is CarsGuide.com.au, which is part of News Limited. They have recently taken a different approach to compete with CarSales.com.au by swamping traditional media such as radio and billboards with messages similar to marketing themselves as "the smart choice for selling your car online". A commentators in the industry suggested that CarsGuide are attempting to establish themselves as the "Number 2" in the industry and have accepted the premise that beating CarSales off their top podium position is an impossibility.

Perhaps such an assumption narrow minded since CarsGuide is a News Limited entity which has tremendous resources at it's disposal. Afterall, News Limited is one of Australia's largest media conglomerate companies, employing more than 8,000 staff nationwide and approximately 3,000 journalists. The publicly listed company's interests span newspaper and magazine publishing, Internet, Pay TV, National Rugby League, market research, DVD and film distribution, and film and television production trading assets.

Nonetheless, CarSales announced in their end of Financial Year 2011 Report that Profit was up 35% from the previous financial year to $58.3m after tax. Who would have thought that a website dedicated to facilating the selling of vehicles in Australia would be so profitable? Being a public listed company offers transparency to competitors and may inevitably drive those competitors to the beleif that competing is worthwhile.

Meanwhile, there are a number of other sizeable corporations competiting as well, including eBay with their "Motors" section in combination with the eBay owned company Gumtree.com.au.

A striking difference between CarSales and it's competitors, is that CarSales is the most expensive option to list your car for sale in Australia. A direct approach taken by CarsGuide is to simply offer listings for "half the price" at $30 versus $60, however is listing on CarsGuide at least half the value? If we take a look at the "Private Cars for Sale" on CarsGuide, the number of cars listed as at 9th April 2012 is not even close to half with just 12,112 versus 72,819 on CarSales. On these metrics alone it would appear that 16% of the cost compared to CarSales comes to less than $10, so it really does not appear to be good value for money. Of course, the true value for money comes from the number of potential buyers, however these types of metrics are not publicly disclosed.

In contrast, what if we were to analyze the FREE market of online car sales in Australia, is it possible that there is some value there instead? Thankfully for many faithful users of Gumtree it continues to be a free option available despite it's ownership by eBay and it boasts 63,246 cars for sale at the same date. While these numbers appear to be similar to CarSales, the downside however is that Gumtree seems to have significant regional popularity and lacks market penetration in the capital cities throughout Australia. For example, there are only 4,443 cars listed in Brisbane versus 16,341, so the largest population market is still clearly dominated by CarSales.

A surprise competitor in the free Boost Classifieds - Car Sales category which boasts 8,615 Private Used Cars listed in Brisbane, which is obviously significant value for money since it is absolutely free.

With such fantastic free options available we're led to question why people continue to pay to sell their cars online? The simple reasoning is the lack of marketing, while CarsGuide, TradingPost and CarSales can afford to help convince the public that paying to sell their car on their sites is good value for money, the truth is that even selling one of your greatest assets online can be acheived without cost.

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Hayley Woodgate has university qualifications in Marketing and Public Relations with more than ten years experience in the Australian industry, with a recent focus within the Used Cars and Car Sales marketplace with Boost Classifieds.

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If you want a Rent Porsche in Dubai, there are different types of vehicles provided by the rental companies. They vary according to the range of budget and requirements of a customer. Different cars are available at different rates depending upon the vehicle model, condition and brand. Mostly, those people rent cars who are having some problems in their cars or who do not have a car at all. A company takes care of different things when giving and receiving car like getting full information of the individual who is taking the vehicle, how much mileage covered by the car during a specified time, what was the maximum speed during travel checking with the help of GPS, etc. and they keep the records of certain things as well. Some companies offer discounts on the next visits, but normally these things depend on the policies of the companies.

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When you are starting the business of towing services, it is important to obtain insurance. Insurance acts as security and gives you relaxation. Insurance is an important factor and considerable use when any accident occurs during the process of towing any vehicle. It is important to keep your insurance copy with you all the time in towing truck. The main element of any business is its employees. If employees are well trained and do their jobs efficiently, then business can grow easily. When you want to hire employees, always check their qualifications and background properly to hire a good employee. It is important to check their driving license that they are official. It is also important to check their driving records that they are annulled of any illegal activities like a drink while drunk. Always make sure that employee can drive and handle a towing vehicle. Always make sure that he doesn't have any criminal records to avoid difficulties in the future. An honest worker with no criminal record is the asset for your company.

The other important thing you need to require from the towing company is equipment. You can not run your business successfully without having proper skills and tools. If you don't have proper tools but your employees are highly skilled even then you can not run the business. The equipments must be up to date and well maintained and in good working condition. Many countries have specified the rules and regulation for towing trucks and vehicles being used in it. If your country has also these types of law, always keep in mind while purchasing the tow truck. The best method to advertise your towing company is to display the company name and business contact number so if anyone need they will call you. It is also better to give two way walkie talkie or radio system for driver of the tow truck to stay in touch in case of emergency.

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Step 4: Read and react-Perfecting this plan to promote research in the keyword takes time. Watch each of your ads carefully for performance. Its aim is that this ad appears just before the potential buyers. If you see an ad purchase multiple prints but un-selectivegeneratestraffic which is a sign that ad copy is not correct or is not aimed at visitors to the right place. Check the same ad across multiple keywords and then multiple listings of identical search phrases. When you see the peaks of positive end results do note that you are working and then try to expand. Similar adverts and comparable key phrases, keep working and not working off that. Step 5: Develop a Media Campaign-The Social Communication last piece of the puzzle is to start using tools like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and MySpace the organization. These efforts are free, but can be time consuming. Require active participation to generate the variety of emotions essential to what we boostyour business looking for scoring. This is a number applied by the search engines to measure "buzz" about your company. The buzz more are much more important to really feel is to present data to search engines.

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Master lock report that 70 percent of trailer owners did not fully know the correct way to tow their cargo.Many cars fitted with tow bars, most are likely to have fitted towing electrics which are hidden from the car. This system is used to protect the cars lighting systems from potential damage if wiring in a trailer should malfunction. Is a tried and tested system in very wide use. Bypass system are found both in universal system and in dedicated and OEM systems.Some of the advanced system being introduced in certain vehicles that may make use of detecting the presence of a trailer are: lane change assistant, brake electronics, adaptive cruise control, suspension system, engine electronics, engine cooling system, parking aids, and reversing camera.On vehicles that do not have safety features that depend on the vehicle sensing the presence of a trailer, bypass systems, properly installed by expert fitters, are very efficient and cost effective alternatives to expensive OEM and other dedicated kits.

They have the built-in advantage of completely isolating the trailer from the vehicle's lighting system, thus protecting against damage to the car caused by any failure within the trailer's wiring. However, a number of manufacturers do not recommend connections to be made on the lighting harnesses.This system is used to protect the car's lighting systems from potential damage if wiring in a trailer should malfunction. It is a tried and tested system in very wide use. It does not communicate with the vehicle and will not activate any safety or convenience systems. It is not advised for use in cars that depend on sensing the presence of a trailer to activate towing-related safety features within the car. In addition to this, there are a number of vehicle manufacturers that do not recommend or actually ban any connections to be made from the vehicle lighting harness.

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The earliest cars, perhaps not unexpectedly, borrowed heavily from horse drawn carriage designs. With this in mind, we can draw a line directly from the horse-drawn coupe of the 19th Century and the stylish two-door cars of today. The first luxury cars were sometimes strikingly similar - in the case of the Benz Mylord automobile, launched in 1901, there was a space for the driver separate from that of the passengers, with the passengers benefitting from adequate shielding from the elements. The driver, however, had to face rain, wind, snow and any other weather conditions that the ten horsepower car could handle.

The earliest coupe cars usually only had room for two people. This changed in the 1950s, when fashion dictated that the seating capacity be increased to allow for four people - a trend that continues, in the most part, to this day. Though modern variants of the style may look quite different to those made fifty or more years ago, there are a number of features that persist - long, flowing lines, for example, are found on almost every coupe model, as is a short roof and frameless side windows.

Over the years, manufacturers have used many different prefixes with the term coupe, including ‘club', which referred to a car with a larger rear seat; ‘business', which had no rear seat at all, or a removable rear seat; ‘sports', which features a gradually sloping roof; and ‘quad', which uses bi-parting side doors, typically with a longer front door than rear door.

The ‘four-door', meanwhile, resembles a sedan with the proportions of a coupe. The name was first used in 1962 to describe a low-roofed version of the Rover P5, and has been used sporadically since - for the 1992 Infiniti J30, the 2005 Mercedez-Benz CLS, and the 2009 Jaguar XJ, for example.

One of the more unusual styles is the fully-retractable hardtop, which uses a solid roof that can be lifted off entirely at the touch of a button. This style was introduced many years ago by a number of companies, including Peugeot and Ford - but during the 21st Century we have seen the fully-retractable hardtop become more popular than ever.
Some might argue that choosing to own a classic coupe means that you value style over comfort or practicality. However, modern variants do not dispense with utility value in any significant way, with many contemporary models featuring a spacious trunk and a folding rear seat bench, for example.

The term sedan is often used interchangeably with coupe, although the latter style tends to be sportier.


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