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Junkyard Find: 2004 Mitsubishi Diamante LS

The Truth About Cars

Having read all four episodes, you now know that 2004 was the final model year for the Diamante in North America, and that only 4,379 examples were sold here that year. Are those paltry sales the result of Mitsubishi's puzzling major refresh of the body for '04, which made the car look like a bloated Lancer ? The engine is a 3.5-liter

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Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported

Cars That Think

Second Sight Medical Products , in his right eye in 2004 and the subsequent Argus II implant in his left 11 years later. Yet in 2020, Byland had to find out secondhand that the company had abandoned the technology and was on the verge of going bankrupt. Terry Byland did not encounter any problems with his 2004 Argus I implant.

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Green Friday | Black Friday

My Energi

Smaller local businesses have undoubtedly felt the brunt of shopping restrictions throughout 2020, due to covid 19. The myenergi Green Friday Giveaway starts tomorrow 18/11/2020. Each person can enter multiple times and the 9 Lucky Winners will be announced on Black Friday | Green Friday – 27th November 2020!

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Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

Green Car Congress

TCF acquired the 23,780-acre tract in 2004 for $18 million ($10 million California Coastal Conservancy, $3.5 MRC lists the amount of chemical usage on its website, monitors chemicals in the water table, doesn’t use the herbicide within the watercourse protection zones, and plans to phase out the use of the chemical by 2020.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans. We believe such production models could be available for sale in three years."Furia GM is committed to putting the system in the Chevrolet Volt for sale by 2010, Lutz said. Detroit Free Press ).

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