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EPA fuel economy report finds weight and power leveling off, footprint stable

Green Car Congress

Preliminary MY 2017 values suggest that average weight will be up 9 pounds and horsepower up 2 hp. EPA will not have final MY 2017 data until next year’s report. ft 2 (2.4%); cars increased 1 ft 2 (2.1%); minivans/vans increased 1.0 Preliminary MY 2017 values are essentially unchanged from MY 2016. Source: EPA.

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Consumer Reports: Tesla and other domestic brands take big steps backwards in reliability rankings

Green Car Congress

Every domestic automaker landed in the bottom-half of CR’s latest reliability rankings, which covers 29 brands this year—two more than 2017. Making air suspension and AWD standard in the 2017 model has added more complexity and more things that could potentially falter. —Jake Fisher. Chrysler drops seven spots to number 24.

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

Clean Fleet Report

Nissan’s Leaf stood alone as an EV. Good examples of all-new electric cars are the Nissan Leaf battery-electric and the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid , which both debuted in 2010 as 2011 models. Next up will be the ID.Buzz electric minivan. There is no all-electric or gas-only Prius—that’s not its identity.

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Road Test: 2021 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid Limited

Clean Fleet Report

doesn’t have a ranking system for the cars, crossovers, minivans and trucks we review. Road Test: 2017 Honda Accord Hybrid. First Drive: 2016 Nissan Altima. Clean Fleet Report’s Sonata Hybrid Limited, with $155 in options and the $1,005 freight and handling fee, had a final MSRP of $36,460. Clean Fleet Report.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

Cars That Think

Editor’s note: Lotfi Zadeh died in 2017 at the age of 96. Leisure activities Portrait photography (has photographed U.S. After graduation, Zadeh had a business association with the US. Army Persian Gulf Command. So I consider myself to have been lucky that this thing came about.”. With fuzzy sets, I can definitely say, ‘Yes.’”.