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Flash Drive: 2025 Cadillac Optiq

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Super Cruise engaged Tom Schinderle, the lead development engineer who brought his background designing the ride and handling for the Cadillac Blackwing , said: The Optiq was not designed to be a sport SUV, but we did spend time at the General Motors Desert Proving Ground in Yuma, Arizona, getting the balance right for handling and for the road.

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Opinion: Why Buffett Bet A Billion On Solar: Miles Per Acre Per Year

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Average fuel efficiency in the US is 22 miles per gallon (mpg). New cars in 2015 get 25 mpg.) An acre of corn that provides 500 gallons of ethanol, at 22 mpg, gives you 11,000 miles, or would, if such gallons had the same energy content as a gallon of gasoline. Agua Caliente PV Plant: Yuma Arizona. Click to enlarge.

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Chrysler Group launches second phase of PHEV minivan project

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Other deployments are in Arizona, North Carolina and Michigan. The minivans have an electric drive range in the city of 22 miles, and charge depleting fuel economy (city) of 53 mpg US (4.43 The plug-in hybrids will be subjected to temperature extremes and variations of drive cycles.

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Prius Plug-In eligibile for a $1,500 California consumer incentive plus $2,500 Federal tax credit

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In hybrid mode, it has an EPA combined mileage rating of 50 mpg. At launch, the Prius Plug-in Hybrid will be available in the following 14 states: California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia.

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Toyota reduces pricing on 2014 Prius Plug-In in US

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The Prius Plug-in is available in 15 states (California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia and Hawaii). The 2013 Prius Plug-in Hybrid is EPA rated at 95 mpge (combined), with a 50 mpg combined rating for conventional hybrid operation.

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Orders beginning for Ford F-150 Diesel; best-in-class torque, towing, targeted EPA-est. 30 mpg

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The F-150 Power Stroke diesel features a targeted EPA-estimated 30 mpg (7.83 In testing along the Davis Dam in Arizona, F-150 equipped with the all-new 3.0-liter Ford dealers will begin taking orders for the 2018 F-150 with all-new 3.0-liter liter Power Stroke diesel engine ( earlier post ) this month. Deliveries begin this spring.

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Chrysler to deploy 20 Ram plug-in hybrid pickups this month; first of 140-unit test fleet

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Chrysler will deliver the first 20 units of its coming 140-unit plug-in hybrid RAM pickup test truck fleet ( earlier post )—10 to Clark County, Nevada and 10 to Yuma, Arizona—later this month, said Chrysler’s Abdullah A. The Chrysler PHEV pickup project is a $97.4-million Technical approach for the Chrysler RAM PHEV.