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Junkyard Find: 2004 Mitsubishi Diamante LS

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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. The MSRP for the 2004 Diamante LS (which was the top trim level, after the VR-X and ES) was $27,619, or about $45,791 in December 2023 dollars. The engine is a 3.5-liter

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Satellite study shows drought-stricken Colorado River Basin states depleting their groundwater

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A new satellite study finds more than 75% of the water loss in the drought-stricken Colorado River Basin since late 2004 came from underground resources. The Colorado River Basin (black outline) supplies water to about 40 million people in seven states. Credit: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Click to enlarge. Castle, Brian F.

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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

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If we look at the fine print, GM actually introduced a sort-of-a-hybrid vehicle as a 2004 model , though the 2004 Chevrolet Silverado Hybrid/GMC Sierra Hybrid didn't have regenerative braking. A 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line hybrid in a Colorado wrecking yard. A 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line hybrid in a Colorado wrecking yard.

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Junkyard Find: 1964 Mercury Montclair Four-Door Hardtop Marauder

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Built in Missouri, probably shipped to Colorado by train, then sold new in Greeley, located about 60 miles north of Denver and the site of a famous Utopian community during the late 19th century. It was brought back to life on the 2003-2004 Marauder , a version of the Grand Marquis powered by the Lincoln Mark VIII 's DOHC engine.

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Lightning Systems receives California ARB Executive Order for the Transit Bus Repower powertrain

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Lightning’s first Transit Bus Repower powertrain was deployed in a 2004 30-foot GILLIG bus and has been on the road with a transit operator in Colorado for the past 9 months. The powertrain features an active thermally-managed battery system, sourced from a Tier 1 battery cell manufacturer. Lightning Electric Repowered Gillig bus.

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Colorado State University Spinoff to Commercialize 3D Li-ion Battery Technology for Higher-Capacity, Longer-Life Cells

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In a 2004 paper in the ACS journal Chemical Reviews , Long et al. Credit: ACS. Click to enlarge. proposed configuring charge insertion batteries (i.e., A 3-D matrix of electrodes (in a periodic array or an aperiodic ensemble) is necessary to meet both the requirements of short transport lengths and large energy capacity. —Long et al.

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Kimbal Musk exercises options to buy 25k of Tesla stock at $74.17 per share

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Kimbal Musk, the brother of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has been a board member at Tesla since 2004. Kimbal is also a notable businessman in his own right, owning “The Kitchen Restaurant Group,” which operates a number of community restaurants in Indianapolis, Colorado, and Chicago. .

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