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Hagerty's 2024 Bull Market List Has a Few Surprises

The Truth About Cars

Hagerty’s list is meant to highlight cars that can be good values with enough research and time on the purchase side. Besides, as Hagerty notes, fun should be the primary goal with car buying, not necessarily making money. Image: Dave Goodman via Shutterstock] Become a& TTAC& insider.

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Frito-Lay buying 100 more Smith Electric Vehicle trucks in 2012; natural gas coming for tractor fleet

Green Car Congress

PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay North America division will purchase 100 Newton Series 2000 all-electric commercial vehicles in 2012 from Smith Electric Vehicles, bringing the total number of its electric fleet to more than 280. Each CNG vehicle, purchased from Freightliner, will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 23%, compared to diesel.

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Saudi Arabia And Iran Reignite The Oil Price War

Green Car Congress

Iran, OPEC’s third-largest producer, is trying to convince its oil customers to continue buying Iranian oil despite stringent U.S. The OSPs for Iranian Heavy and Forozan to Asia were slashed against the similar Saudi grades to their lowest levels since at least 2000, the year in which Bloomberg started compiling the data.

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Junkyard Find: 2002 Daewoo Nubira SE Sedan

The Truth About Cars

Today, it's the turn of the third member of the 2000-2002 Daweoo triumvirate: The compact Nubira, an example of which I found in a Denver self-service yard last week. The CEO of Daewoo fled South Korea in 1999 to avoid criminal charges, the company went bankrupt in 2000 , and the bad news for Daewoo just kept coming as the new century began.

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What You Need To Know About Pickup EVs

Clean Fleet Report

You might still be on the fence about buying a heavy EV pickup, given some of the misconceptions about electric vehicles in general. necessary Electric trucks can do the same work as an ICE–some times more Whether or not you decide to buy an EV comes down to your personal (or if it’s a commercial vehicle) or business needs.

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Who will be in the driver’s seat?

Electric Auto Association

Women may soon become the leaders in EV purchasing. She’s also been part of a decisive minority when it comes to electric vehicle (EV) purchases. She’s also been part of a decisive minority when it comes to electric vehicle (EV) purchases. Amy Sinclair speaks to friend about driving electric.

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How and When the Chip Shortage Will End, in 4 Charts

Cars That Think

However, those conditions meant a big fraction of the workforce recreated the office at home, purchasing computers, monitors, and other equipment. By the time car makers realized people still wanted to buy their goods they found themselves at the back of the line for the chips they needed.