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All new vehicle sales in Oregon to be ZEVs by MY 2035

Green Car Congress

The Oregon Environmental Quality Commission adopted rules this week (3-1) to require all new passenger cars, trucks and SUVs sold in Oregon to be zero emissions (ZEVs) by 2035. Known as Advanced Clean Cars II , the set of rules builds on regulations in place since 2005.

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Chrysler Splits Dodge into Ram and Car Brand Organizations

Green Car Congress

Chrysler has split the Dodge Brand into two separate organizations: the Dodge Ram Brand and the Dodge Car Brand. Diaz will also be the lead executive for the Sales organization in the United States. Gilles will continue to lead the Product Design organization of Chrysler Group which he joined in 1992. Fred Diaz Jr.

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Daimler JV Beijing Benz Automotive named Factory of the Year by Produktion magazine

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In choosing BBAC in the “Excellent Large Series Assembly” category, the organizers recognized the facility’s adoption of newly developed analytical methods for process control and quality assurance, as data from sensors and machines are collected in real-time, evaluated heuristically and fed into the process as feedback.

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Rare Rides Icons: The Lincoln Mark Series Cars, Feeling Continental (Part XLIII)

The Truth About Cars

The more aerodynamic, organic shape of the Mark VIII meant ride height was slightly lower than before at 53.6 In 2003 the InTech appeared in its only SUV usage, as the motivator of the new and doomed Lincoln Aviator. British maker MG used the engine for three years on the crazy X-Power SV , on sale from 2003 to 2005.

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27 November 2009 - In First "Plug-in Arizona" Outing to Nogales, AZ, " the "Spirit" Made the News with Nogales International

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

He has driven his 2005 Prius, dubbed “Spirit of DC,” to 48 state capitals and five Canadian provinces, and now he’s launching a “Plug-in Arizona Tour,” he said.Spirit is a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV). Army in Washington, D.C., and moved to Bisbee, he said. Now he’s on a new mission to convert America to plug-in cars.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Several aftermarket companies and organizations have converted hundreds of Priuses -- see Where PHEVs Are.) Beginning in 2005, we excerpted individual statements of intentions by carmakers, but by the start of 2008, the number of comments became too numerous for us to track. See our frequent comments at our news archive.

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CalCars and PHEVs Frequently Asked Questions

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

For more on plug-in hybrids and V2G, see CalCars Resources , University of Delaware V2G Research Center , and papers from a June 2005 conference in Seattle. While other national and international organizations have been supportive at government hearings, they havent yet begun to advocate for PHEVs.

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