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Pioneering Calif. broker Bert Boeckmann dies at 92

Baua Electric

He informed Automobile Information in 2013 that he joined Galpin Ford on the urging of a pal and in the long run wound up staying longer than his pal. “Even here, at first, a week didn’t go by that I didn’t think of quitting,” he next informed Automobile Information. 21, 1930, in South Gate, Calif.,

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Cheap Electric Car Conversion Possible?

Electric Cars are for Girls

What would it take to convert a Saturn SC2 to electric? The information on web sites is all over the place. Some want $5,000.00 for a kit while another

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50 Years Later, This Apollo-Era Antenna Still Talks to Voyager 2

Cars That Think

Capturing every bit of the incident signals is crucial to gathering useful information from the transmissions. But by the time the signals traverse the multibillion-kilometer distance from the heliopause to Earth, their power has faded to a level 20 billion times weaker than what is needed to run a digital watch.

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The Pininfarina Battista is more than a Rimac Nevara in a wig

Teslarati

Still, with more recent information about the vehicle now being manufactured and it being reviewed by Top Gear and Edmunds , perhaps it deserves one more look. In Top Gear’s video in the rain, the hypercar handled more like the Saturn 5 rocket than a road-going vehicle.

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GM announces three new recalls of ~1.55 million vehicles

Green Car Congress

million Buick Enclave and GMC Acadia models from the 2008-2013 model years, Chevrolet Traverse from the 2009-2013 model years, and Saturn Outlook from the 2008-2010 model years. With respect to the Enclave, Traverse, Acadia and Outlook, the vehicles are equipped with a Service Air Bag warning light in the driver information center.

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Musk blames SpaceX’s latest Starship explosion on Raptor engine leak

Teslarati

As promised, the new information offers some insight into the cause of Starship SN11’s premature demise and the challenges of iteratively developing systems as complex as a fully-reusable Saturn V-class launch vehicle.

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SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket tests 27 engines for military rideshare launch

Teslarati

While the records of N1 , Saturn V , and Energia still stand, all three were retired decades ago. In terms of performance, Falcon Heavy is the fifth most capable rocket ever built and is second only to NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) today.

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