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Tesla Model 3 most popular luxury car model (LendingTree study)

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The Tesla Model 3 is the most popular luxury car model according to an analysis by LendingTree, which noted that San Jose, California has the most luxury vehicles. The study echoes the recent news that the Tesla Model 3 and Model Y are both best sellers in California’s auto market. BMWs made up 17.5%

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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part VI)

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A daring aerodynamic shape, frameless windows, grandiose full-width heckblende, and in-dash Guidestar navigation were all present on the 1994 Oldsmobile Aurora show car. The show car was production ready, save for the Guidestar. & Competition in the in-car navigation space heated up after Oldsmobile’s lead.

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Civil Maps joins Renovo AWare Ecosystem to provide interoperability for HD mapping and localization

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Civil Maps, creator of the world’s first edge-based HD mapping and localization platform for self-driving cars ( earlier post ), has teamed up with Renovo, the software technology company behind AWare ( earlier post ), to provide highly automated vehicle makers and technology providers with seamless access to Civil Maps’ vehicular cognition stack.

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Samsung plans $41M enlargement of EV battery operations in Michigan

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Samsung SDI The us has its North American headquarters in Auburn Hills and an workplace in San Jose, Calif., The post Samsung plans $41M enlargement of EV battery operations in Michigan appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News. with world headquarters in Yongin, South Korea.

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Hertz adds 2016 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid to rental fleet

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The Hertz Corporation, which includes the Hertz, Dollar and Thrifty brands, has expanded of its Green Traveler Collection car rental fleet to include the 2016 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid ( earlier post ) in select cities across the US. All of the Green Traveler cars have fuel efficiency ratings starting at 33+ highway mpg.

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UC Berkeley study confirms that yes, EVs do what they promise to do

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Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley , found that between 2018 and 2022, CO2 emission from all sources (industries, homes, traffic) across the San Francisco Bay Area dropped around 1.8% EVs made up nearly 40% of new auto registrations in San Jose and 34% in San Francisco last year. “We

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Clean Energy Fuels delivered 143M gallons of Redeem renewable natural gas in 2019, up 30% year-on-year

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The environmental impact of replacing 143 million gallons of diesel fuel with RNG is the equivalent of reducing 745,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions—also equal to planting 12 million trees, or removing 158,000 cars off the road, or reducing 260,000 tons of waste that would otherwise be sent to the landfill, the company said.

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