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Junkyard Find: 1986 Dodge Aries SE Four-Door Sedan

The Truth About Cars

For the 1980s, GM created the X-Cars , Ford offered Fox sedans and American Motors had the Concord. After a decade of fuel shortages and general malaise , Detroit (and Kenosha) knew that American car buyers still loved soft-riding, roomy sedans with comfy bench seats but needed them to be more efficient.

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Chrysler unveils new electric minivan for the US Postal Service

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Subscribe Green News Events Manufacturers Region New Cars Used Cars Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Chrysler Chrysler unveils new electric minivan for the US Postal Service by Sam Abuelsamid on Apr 22nd 2009 at 10:05AM Chrysler U.S. Apr 22, 2009 - Chrysler invented the minivan 25 years ago. Postal Service. Postal Service for mail delivery.

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Tennessee, Nissan and TVA forge a path for electric car | www.tennessean.com | The Tennessean

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Chambers Williams III • THE TENNESSEAN• April 26, 2009 Print this page E-mail this article Share Del.icio.us Postal Service with a fleet of 250 all-electric Chrysler Town & Country minivans in Michigan, North Carolina and the New York City area beginning later this year. See instructions for fixing the problem.

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The Reality of Fast Charging for Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

» Transportation | March 28, 2009 | by EV World The Reality of Fast Charging for Electric Vehicles By Noel Adams Every so often I read articles, like the ones recently about a breakthrough from researchers at MIT, which will allow batteries to charge quickly, in this case, in 2 seconds.

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Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day

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Thankfully, since parts of the powertrain in the Circuit are also used in other Chrysler ENVI vehicles - like the all-electric USPS minivan that was unveiled earlier today - work that is done on one model can be applied to others. For now, if you want to keep moving, you need to keep pressing go. No coasting available.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

↓ ↑ report 10 Pixls 11:45PM (4/09/2009) well i think, in a perfect world there would be some level of uniformity to the batteries per car of course not all cars would have the same pack, that would be impossible, but perhaps, an SUV pack, a sport pack, minivan pack, and like regular car or something.