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Acura unveils all-new electrified ARX-06 race car

Green Car Congress

In the case of the ARX-06, HPD and Acura have elected to continue their successful relationship with ORECA (ORganisation Exploitation Compétition Automobiles). This has been recently validated in a full-scale wind tunnel test. The group worked closely with ORECA on the overall aerodynamic concept of the ARX-06.

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Can Alt-Fuel Credits Accelerate EV Adoption?

Cars That Think

federal government has mandated that the country’s government-operated planes, trains, and automobiles run on a fuel blend partly made from corn- and soybean-based biofuels. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which stewards the RFS, had repeatedly downsized the targets by nearly 25 percent. For the past decade and a half, the U.S.

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Ferrari’s Plug-in Hybrid One-Ups the Combustion Engine

Cars That Think

liter V-8 shrieking, as technically advanced as any automobile engine ever. Automakers are finding it difficult to challenge those boldface numbers with internal combustion alone, especially as engines are relentlessly downsized to meet regulations. Yes, behind my helmeted head there’s a twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter

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