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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

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Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. That car was the 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line, and I managed to find one in a Denver-area car graveyard recently. A 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line hybrid in a Colorado wrecking yard.

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DTNA Freightliner new Cascadia first SAE Level 2 automated truck in NA; 35% better fuel efficiency than 2007 Cascadia

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Detroit Connect Analytics will provide fleets with analysis and key insights on the performance of the new Detroit Assurance 5.0 The new Cascadia delivers a 35% improvement in fuel efficiency compared to the first Cascadia introduced in 2007. safety features. Aerodynamic and powertrain efficiency gains.

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Oak Ridge researchers studying tension wood to gain insights for better tailored bioenergy crops

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Although tension wood itself is not considered to be a viable feedstock option, insight gleaned from studying its unique physical and molecular characteristics could be used to design and select more suitably tailored bioenergy crops. BESC is one of three DOE Bioenergy Research Centers established by the DOE’s Office of Science in 2007.

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Spikemoss genome offers new paths for biofuels research; insight into lignin

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The newly completed sequence can provide biofuels researchers with information that could influence the development of candidate biofuel feedstock plants and offer botanists important insights into plant evolution. “When you burn coal, you’re burning Selaginella’s ancestors.” ” —Jody Banks.

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DHL Freight and Volvo Trucks partner to speed introduction of longer-distance heavy-duty electric trucks in Europe

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The collected insights will help to optimize the right balance between operated distance, load weight and charging points in daily road freight operations. Important milestones have already been achieved in meeting this: compared to 2007, our Group’s CO 2 efficiency has improved by 35%.

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Cumulative worldwide sales of Honda hybrids passes 1 million units

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This milestone was reached 12 years and 11 months after the start of sales of the first generation Insight in Japan November 1999, which realized fuel economy of 35 km/liter (82.3 Toyota hit the 1-million mark for cumulative global hybrid sales at the end of May 2007 ( earlier post ), and has since rocketed past 4 million cumulative units.

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Study of lead isotopes provides insight into aerosols transport from Asia to US

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Scientists from Berkeley Lab and the California Air Resources Board collected samples of fine airborne particles at two sites in the San Francisco Bay Area once a week from December 2007 to May 2008. One site was on Mt. Tamalpais, in Marin County. Another site was further inland at the Chabot Observatory in the East Bay.

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