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Electric Car Company Aurica Motors Enters Two Partnerships for Manufacturing Training and Engineering

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Electric car company Aurica Motors, which plans to retool the NUMMI plant in California to build not only electric cars but compatible battery charging stations ( earlier post ), has entered two partnerships in support of its mission. Motive develops concept vehicles for major automakers such as Dodge, Hyundai, Suzuki, Chrysler, and Toyota.

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Jim Wangers, the Godfather of the GTO, useless at 96

Baua Electric

The all-new 1955 Bel Wind splendidly redefined Chevrolet with abundance kudos to Jim Wangers. Even Eighties automobiles won the Motortown contact, together with the Dodge Charger 2.2. With promise of Daytona spreading throughout the media, dealerships had been unprepared to cater to lovers inquiring about high-performance Chevrolets.

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Road Test: 2022 Subaru BRZ Limited

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After spending a fun week tooling around Southern California in the BRZ, there isn’t any argument coming from us. In our week driving through Southern California we averaged 24.7 Designed to cut through the wind with underbody aerodynamic panels and a 0.28 Road Test: 2016 Dodge Challenger. Raw Sports Car Fun.

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GM and Chrysler Submit Updated Restructuring Plans; Up to $18.6B More Needed; Outlines for Product Plans

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the Fiat plan, earlier post ); and the “orderly wind down”—filing for Chapter 11 as the first step in an orderly wind down. Chrysler is pushing for the strategic partnership with Fiat. Chrysler product plans. The difficulty in compliance would be in the passenger car segment, rather than the light-duty truck segment.

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Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Subscribe Green News Events Manufacturers Region New Cars Used Cars Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Chrysler , Dodge , AutoblogGreen Exclusive , SAE World Congress Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day by Sebastian Blanco on Apr 22nd 2009 at 7:48PM Two months ago we went for a ride in the Dodge Circuit EV.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Other than sports car wanna-bes, modern cars are so quiet that you hear tire/wind noise much more than engines. Reply ↓ ↑ report 3 Snowdog 6:22PM (4/17/2009) Totally agree. I have stated the same before. If they force noice makers on Hybrids and EVs, this will be yet another break down in common sense. Follow us on Twitter!

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion? Smart Grid City will easily support up to 1,000 easily dispatched distributed generation technologies including PHEVs, distributed batteries, solar and wind. A Perfect Storm for Water Counting Calories and Counting Carbon: The Role of.

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