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Used Car of the Day: 2007 Audi A3 S-Line 3.2 Quattro

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Today's UCOTD is a 2007 Audi A3 S-Line 3.2 The ad copy is sparse but we see that this Virginia-based car has the cold-weather package, 119K miles, and OZ racing wheels. quattro with an automatic transmission. Hey there, a wagon! The seller claims it has been well maintained.

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Study finds road conditions in US states worsening in important categories

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Virginia jumps 25 spots in the rankings—from 27 th overall in the previous report—into second-place in performance and cost-effectiveness. Similarly, the study’s three traffic fatality categories—overall, urban and rural—all show more fatalities in 2016 than in any year since 2007.

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Virginia Tech professor proposes simple biomass-to-wheel efficiency analysis to inform decisions on biomass/biofuel/powertrain combinations; the advantage of sugar fuel cell vehicles

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However, notes Virginia Tech Prof. Zhang Y-HP, Evans BR, Mielenz JR, Hopkins RC, Adams MW (2007) High-Yield Hydrogen Production from Starch and Water by a Synthetic Enzymatic Pathway. Numerous life cycle analyses (LCAs) have attempted—and continue to—gauge the potential sustainability and impacts of these possible pairings.

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MHI and Dominion reach agreement to continue engineering and planning work in support of third unit at North Anna Nuclear Plant

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MNES), and Virginia Electric and Power Company have reached an agreement to continue pre-construction, engineering, and planning work in preparation for a third unit at Dominion’s North Anna Nuclear Power Plant in central Virginia. In March 2007, Luminant selected the US-APWR design for its Comanche Peak Units 3 and 4.

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This Startup’s AI Tool Makes Moving Day Easier

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Zach Rattner Employer: Yembo Occupation: Chief technology officer and cofounder Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, Virginia Tech “I’m making a dent in the universe,” he says. “We When he entered Virginia Tech in 2007 to study computer engineering, he discovered his roommate had also been doing freelance Web development.

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NHTSA releases two new studies on impaired driving on US roads; drunk driving down, drug use up

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One study, the latest version of NHTSA’s Roadside Survey of Alcohol and Drug Use by Drivers , found that the number of drivers with alcohol in their system has declined by nearly one-third since 2007, and by more than three-quarters since the first Roadside Survey in 1973. in 2007 to 20% in 2014.

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Nissan says it will have first commercially-viable autonomous drive vehicles by 2020; across the range in 2 vehicle generations

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In 2007 I pledged that—by 2010—Nissan would mass-market a zero-emission vehicle. Nissan says that its autonomous driving will be achieved at realistic prices for consumers. The goal is availability across the model range within two vehicle generations after introduction.

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