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Junkyard Find: 1986 Dodge Aries SE Four-Door Sedan

The Truth About Cars

These cars are becoming difficult to find in the Ewe Pullets of the land, and I hadn't written about a true K in the Junkyard Finds series since way back in 2019. Today, we'll look at a K sedan that survived 36 years before being retired in California. My personal K-Car experience hasn't been as positive.

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Street network patterns reveal global trend towards increasing urban sprawl

Green Car Congress

New research from McGill University and the University of California, Santa Cruz has found that the local streets of the world’s cities are becoming less connected, a global trend that is driving urban sprawl and discouraging the use of public transportation. SNDi for streets added years 2000 to 2014. Barrington-Leigh and Millard-Ball.

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Who will be in the driver’s seat?

Electric Auto Association

An early adopter Sinclair’s first venture into the world of clean energy vehicles came in the early 2000’s when she and her husband purchased a Ford Escape Hybrid, a car they still own today. And in California, we have to keep diversity in mind when it comes to putting women in EVs.

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Study: California will hit climate targets >100 years too late at current pace of reductions; transportation, wildfires & landfills

Green Car Congress

California will meet its 2030 climate targets more than three decades late, in 2061, and could be more than 100 years late in meeting its 2050 target if the average rate of emissions reductions from the past year hold steady, according to a new study tracking more than a decade of environmental and economic indicators in the state.

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Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77

Cars That Think

He left Tokyo in 2013 to become president of the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and served in that position until 2019. Among the awards he received was a 2016 Bunka Korosha (Person of Cultural Merit) Award , one of the highest honors bestowed by the Japanese government. Boehm’s honors included the 2000 IEEE Harlan D.

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EV Tax Credit: The Guide Your Car Dealer Doesn’t Want You To Read

EV Life

4 2023 $7500 $80,000 Personalize incentives Note: If you bought your EV before April 18, 2023, you can also check EV tax credit eligibility on FuelEconomy.gov. 4 2023 $7500 $80,000 Personalize incentives Note: If you bought your EV before April 18, 2023, you can also check EV tax credit eligibility on FuelEconomy.gov.

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Gallium Nitride and Silicon Carbide Fight for Green Tech Domination

Cars That Think

Consider: Electricity consumption in the state of California remained essentially flat from 1980 even as the economic output of the state skyrocketed. Switching power supplies are the type used to power virtually all personal computers, mobile devices, and appliances that run on DC.

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