The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 16, 2023

If you owned a car that had traveled more than 400,000 miles during its life, could you bear to send it into the cold steel jaws of The Crusher ? Here's a very solid Mercedes-Benz W123 oil-burner that now languishes in a self-service boneyard in Phoenix, Arizona. 1982 Mercedes-Benz 300 D W123 in Arizona wrecking yard.

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Mercedes Miles Arizona San Diego 104

Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2019

New research from a team at Arizona State University shows that even when receiving a big rebate from the government, consumers won’t always behave in expected ways. Overall, the average miles-per-gallon of the traded-in vehicles was 15.8, Thaler, a professor at the University of Chicago, won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2017.

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Cash For Clunkers Cars Purchase Dealers 223

Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Val Miftakhov got into the EV game in 2010 when he founded eMotorWerks, which created an innovative smart charging solution and was acquired by the Enel Group in 2017. The goal is to demonstrate a 19-seat aircraft with a 350-mile flight in early 2023. Charged : What are your projections for cost per mile?

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Hydrogen Fuel San Francisco All-Electric 90

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Any whisper of production bottlenecks at Tesla inevitably recalls the Model 3's troubled launch in 2017 and 2018 , the one that had Musk sleeping in his office. The Arizona-built Lucid Air sedan, the work of Musk's former Model S chief engineer, has demonstrated it can travel up to 517 miles , a lofty record for any EV.

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Batteries Battery Production Tesla 141