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GM raises 2024 financial guidance on Q1 revenue

Teslarati

General Motors (GM) has detailed its first-quarter financial results for the year, citing its gas vehicles and continued growth of electric vehicle (EV) business and software-based platform development. “The engine of the company is truck and SUV at this point,” he added. billion to $11.5

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Chevrolet and GMC expand alternative fuel fleet offerings; expanded CNG/LPG lineup

Green Car Congress

liter V-8 compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)-capable engines starting in the first quarter of 2017. V-8 engine with hardened valves and valve seats to PSI, which in turn will install the fuel system and other hardware and ship directly to Chevrolet and GMC dealers in all 50 states. E85 Ethanol.

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Fulcrum Bioenergy breaks ground on Phase 2 of Sierra Biofuels plant; 1st garbage-to-fuels project

Green Car Congress

A venturi scrubber captures and removes any entrained particulate, and the syngas is further cooled in a packed gas cooler scrubber. The syngas then enters the secondary gas clean-up section that contains compression to increase syngas to the pressure required by the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process. million gallons of fuel each year.

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At the EV Crossroads

Clean Fleet Report

Here we are today, at that crossroads of “old” internal combustion engine technology and insurgent electric propulsion. It’s unusual to find two relatively equivalent vehicles offering a choice of gas or electric fuel. liter gas engine (28 mpg highway) for a run in the snow up to Lake Tahoe. Power/Powertrain.

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Polk County, Oregon Sheriff’s Office running 10 patrol cars on propane

Green Car Congress

The Polk County, Oregon, Sheriff’s Office is running 10 patrol cars converted to propane autogas, including seven Ford Crown Vics, two Chevy Tahoes and one Ford F-350 pickup truck; the office expects to save more than $20,000 every year by using the alternative fuel.

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AutoTrader.com June trend report shows increasing consumer interest in trucks and SUVs

Green Car Congress

AutoTrader.com’s June Trend Engine report, which provides analysis of site traffic as it relates to consumer shopping behavior, shows that trucks and SUVs have gained consumer interest since May and that interest in compact cars is starting to subside. 5, the used Chevrolet Tahoe moving up four spots to No.

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We drove the 500hp electric Arc Sport and holy heck, this thing rips

Baua Electric

Its cofounders, Mitch Lee and Ryan Cook, are engineers who met while working at Boeing. An electric motor is also easier to put where you want it, so there doesn’t need to be a big, loud, hot, vibrating mass in the middle of the boat (where engines often go), making it easier to use that space for socializing or moving around inside the boat.

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