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Junkyard Find: 1982 Mercedes-Benz 300 D With 417k Miles

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If you owned a car that had traveled more than 400,000 miles during its life, could you bear to send it into the cold steel jaws of The Crusher ? Here's a very solid Mercedes-Benz W123 oil-burner that now languishes in a self-service boneyard in Phoenix, Arizona. 1982 Mercedes-Benz 300 D W123 in Arizona wrecking yard.

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Autonomous trucking startup TuSimple using NVIDIA DRIVE

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Autonomous trucking startup TuSimple has been hauling mail more than 1,000 miles between Phoenix and Dallas as part of a two-week pilot with the US Postal Service. The pilot comprises five round trips, each consisting of nearly 2,200 miles along the I-10, I-20 and I-30 corridors. —Chuck Price, chief product officer at TuSimple.

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London Taxi relaunches as London EV Company; order for 225 vehicles from The Netherlands

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Applied to the all-new electric TX, the technology allows for a range of more than 400 miles including well over 70 miles range with zero emissions. LEVC expects strong demand from its launch market in London once the order book opens on 1 August 2017.

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UPS adding 200 more series hybrid delivery trucks

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will be deployed beginning in January 2017 starting in Arizona, Texas, Nevada, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida, and, possibly in other states as well. The trucks, manufactured by Workhorse Group, Inc.,

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UPS updates 125 Workhorse E-GEN series hybrid electric step vans with smaller genset engine for better fuel economy

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The trucks will be deployed in Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Nevada, Ohio and Texas later this year. The trucks were purchased under UPS’ commitment to log 1 billion miles with alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles by the end of 2017. Workhorse and AMP Electric Vehicles.

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ASU research finds that Cash for Clunkers rebates were too high to prompt car upgrades

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New research from a team at Arizona State University shows that even when receiving a big rebate from the government, consumers won’t always behave in expected ways. Overall, the average miles-per-gallon of the traded-in vehicles was 15.8, Thaler, a professor at the University of Chicago, won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2017.

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These StartUps are going to Challenge Tesla

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With such a combination, the Badger will cover a distance of 600 miles until another refill is needed. Faraday gained popularity in 2017 after launching its first EV, named FF91. This upcoming vehicle will be capable of covering over 400 miles and can run at a speed of 60 miles per hour within 2.5 Faraday Future.