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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

The Truth About Cars

Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. Toyota followed with the Prius a year later, but it took GM until 2006 to introduce its first true gasoline-electric hybrid here. gallon gas in order to recoup its cost over the pure-gazzoline version.

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Review: 2024 Chevy Silverado EV RST arrives for civilians

Baua Electric

The 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV full-size electric pickup truck was first delivered in Work Truck specification to fleet buyers nearly a year ago; but only now can civilians take one home. That’s more than any other electric truck on the market, and it should reassure shoppers who can afford one that they won’t run out of range unexpectedly.

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Bring Back the EV1 Press Conference

Revenge of the Electric Car

City Council Member, held a press conference demanding General Motors apologize to the American people for destroying the automaker’s EV1 plug-in electric vehicle. Former EV1 driver Doug Korthof's 2002 Toyota RAV4-EV. Chris Paine’s film “ Who Killed the Electric Car ? said Holden.

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Paying Tribute to 1997 IEEE President Charles K. Alexander

Cars That Think

At the time of his death, he was a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Cleveland State University and served as dean of its engineering school. He switched his interests and then earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1965 from Ohio Normal (now Ohio Northern University ), in Ada.

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Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

Green Car Congress

The good news? For $100 million in one year, we’ll demonstrate how to rapidly reduce use of oil in transportation with safe, warrantied retrofits of tens of millions gas-guzzlers. We’re now in the crisis CalCars knew, when we began in 2002, would some day arrive. (We The good news? Finally, it’s time to begin.

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Road Test: 2021 Ford Mustang EcoBoost Premium

Clean Fleet Report

The electric power-assisted rack-and-pinion steering delivered confident road feel, aided by the Pirelli PZero Corsa4 ZR rated 265/40 summer tires on 19-inch, luster nickel-painted aluminum wheels. We do our best to present our unvarnished evaluations of vehicles and news irrespective of these inducements.

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News: 2024 Volkswagen ID.Buzz

Clean Fleet Report

News: 2024 Volkswagen ID.Buzz Reimagining a Classic Surfers and hippies are frequently associated with a mid-century Volkswagen microbus, seen with surfboards on top or flowers painted on the sides, chugging along in the slow lane. We do our best to present our unvarnished evaluations of vehicles and news irrespective of these inducements.

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