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Junkyard Find: 1986 Dodge Aries SE Four-Door Sedan

The Truth About Cars

A decade ago, I endured enjoyed the misfortune character-building experience of a Denver-to-San Francisco journey with the K-It-FWD 1987 Plymouth Reliant 24 Hours of Lemons race car (feel free to send nastygrams to Car and Driver about whatever terrible glitch jankified the formatting in those articles, by the way).

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Who will be in the driver’s seat?

Electric Auto Association

“There’s definitely change on the horizon,” said Sinclair, who is a member of both the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of Women of Electric Vehicles (WEV) , as well as EV Gals, a smaller, Bay Area-only group. A WEV chapter started in the San Francisco Bay Area in the last year,” Sinclair said.

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California Governor announces $120M settlement with NRG will fund electric car charging stations across California; new Executive Order to accelerate commercialization of ZEVs

Green Car Congress

stemming from claims reaching back to Dynegy and the California energy crisis in 2000 and 2001) that will mostly be applied to fund the construction of a statewide network of plug-in vehicle charging stations, including at least 200 public fast-charging stations and another 10,000 plug-in units at 1,000 locations across the state.

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Volkswagen partners with D-Wave on quantum computing; CeBIT premiere of research project for traffic flow optimization

Green Car Congress

In the course of this project, experts from the Volkswagen Code Lab in San Francisco and the Volkswagen Data Lab in Munich and used data from approximately 10,000 taxis in Beijing. In 2017 it released the D-Wave 2000Q system with 2000 qubits and advanced control features.

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Opinion: Alternatives to the RFS

Green Car Congress

The RFS has been controversial from its beginnings in the early 2000’s. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and is the author of “Advancing Fuels: A review of the challenges facing the emerging advanced biofuels industry” ( amzn.to/ZsC2JA Earlier post.) ZsC2JA ).

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FedEx Converts 92 Delivery Trucks to Hybrids, Expanding Hybrid-Electric Fleet by 50%

Green Car Congress

The standard FedEx trucks used in the retrofit program were 2000 or 2001 models with 300,000 to 500,000 miles driven. The 92 retrofitted hybrid vehicles will be placed into service in California, primarily in the Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco metropolitan areas.

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General Motors Kicks Off National Electric Vehicle Training Tour For First Responders

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Additional workshops are planned for cities including Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., OnStar employs approximately 2000 application advisors, and responds to roughly 10,000 requests for emergency services each month, including around 2,000 crash events.