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Volvo Cars, Starbucks begin installing ChargePoint EV fast chargers at stores between Denver and Seattle

Green Car Congress

It will mark the start of a pilot plan announced last March to electrify a major thoroughfare that opens electric vehicle travel between four critical markets including Seattle, Boise, Salt Lake City and Denver. ChargePoint’s DC fast chargers can bring the Volvo C40 Recharge, for example, from a 20% to a 90% charge in about 40 minutes.

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

The Truth About Cars

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 ? 417,046 miles is about the same as traveling 16-¾ times around Earth (using a great circle route, of course), and that distance is impressive even by Mercedes-Benz diesel standards.

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Junkyard Find: 1992 Chevrolet Camaro RS Coupe

The Truth About Cars

Today's Junkyard Find is one of the very last third-gen Camaros ever built, found in a Denver car graveyard recently. This car made it to nearly 200,000 miles, but most of its Van Nuys-built siblings didn't hold together quite so well. This car was built at the notorious Van Nuys Assembly plant in California's San Fernando Valley.

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Junkyard Find: 1988 Pontiac Sunbird SE Coupe

The Truth About Cars

Even by the standards of the far-flung General Motors Empire, the J-Body was found everywhere , from the Vauxhall Cavaliers of Great Britain to the Isuzu Askas of Japan to the Daewoo Esperas of South Korea. Today's Junkyard Find is a sporty Sunbird coupe, found in a yard just south of Denver, Colorado. Nope, there's no tachometer.

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Junkyard Find: 1991 Ford Escort LX 4-Door Hatchback

The Truth About Cars

Here's one of those first-year Mazdafied Escorts, found in a Denver-area car graveyard. Did you get air conditioning as standard equipment in the 1991 Escort? This one just squeaked past the 175,000-mile mark during its life. It looks like a sedan, but that "trunk" is really a hatch. No, you did not!

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Junkyard Find: Gray-Market 1981 Mercedes-Benz 380 SEL

The Truth About Cars

Today's Junkyard Find is one of those cars, found in a self-service boneyard near Denver, Colorado. After that, imported cars had to be brought into strict compliance with the smallest fine print of federal vehicle standards, something almost no shops could handle. After years of intensive Mercedes-Benz-backed lobbying, H.R.2628

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Junkyard Find: 1986 Subaru BRAT GL

The Truth About Cars

Today's Junkyard Find is a second-generation BRAT, found in a self-service yard between Denver and Cheyenne. Unlike the other versions of the Leone sold in North America, every BRAT had four-wheel-drive as standard equipment. Just a bit over 150,000 miles on the odometer at the end.