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Used Car of the Day: 2013 Smart ForTwo Brabus Cocoa Edition

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Today we're sending you a 2013 Smart ForTwo Brabus Cocoa Edition -- because who doesn't like weird-looking Smart ForTwos? For $9K, you can get this North Carolina-based car, which has a louder muffler and two small dings but is otherwise pretty much as it came from the factory.

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Cobalt Institute report: demand for cobalt for batteries grew at annual rate of 10% between 2013 and 2020

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According to the report, the cobalt market has grown overall at an annual rate of more than 5% since 2013. Demand for cobalt in lithium-ion batteries, used chiefly in portable electronics and electric vehicles, has increased at an annual rate of 10% between 2013 and 2020.

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Used Car of the Day: 2013 BMW 335i M-Sport Sedan

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It also warms our enthusiast hearts that this 2013 BMW 335i M-Sport has a six-speed manual transmission. Today we feature a Bimmer of recent vintage that appears to be in good shape. This Virginia-based, Alpine White 3-Series has apparently never had any serious damage and it's all stock.

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USTMA report finds that recycling of end-of-life tires dropped from 96% in 2013 to 76% in 2019

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This is down from 96% in 2013, when scrap tire recycling peaked. Three decades after we successfully eliminated 94% of the over 1 billion scrap tires stockpiled around the country, this report reveals that efforts to find and develop new uses for scrap tires have stalled.

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Pike Research makes 10 electric vehicle predictions for 2013

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Sales of plug-in vehicles (PEVs) in 2013 will continue to outpace the first years of hybrid vehicle sales as more than 210,000 PEVs will be sold globally and more than three dozen PEV models will debut, according to a year-end free whitepaper published by Pike Research, that makes 10 specific predictions about electric vehicles in 2013.

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Nissan cuts entry-level MSRP for 2013 LEAF by 18% to $28,800

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Nissan announced that US pricing for the updated 2013 Nissan LEAF electric vehicle ( earlier post ) will start at an MSRP of $28,800 for the newly-added entry-level S grade—an 18% reduction from the $35,200 MSRP of the 2012 LEAF entry model, the SV. MSRPs of 2012 LEAF and 2013 LEAF. MY 2013 MSRP. MY 2012 MSRP.

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Hybrids take 7% of California market in 1H 2013; PHEVs 0.7%; EVs 1.1%

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Hybrid vehicle market share (excluding plug-in hybrids) in California increased to 7% in the first half of 2013, up from 6.2% in 2012, according to the California Auto Outlook for the second quarter of 2013. percentage point dip, Toyota remained the dominant brand in the California market during the first half of 2013, with 18.5%

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