The Truth About Cars

JULY 10, 2023

The LeBaron name goes well back in Chrysler history, starting when the coachbuilder known as LeBaron Carrossiers was purchased by Detroit car-body-builder Briggs Manufacturing in 1926 and Chrysler bought Briggs in 1953. Here's one of those cars, found in a Denver boneyard recently. Worth restoring? Not in this condition.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2018

In a new study, NREL researchers focused on the key observability aspects of new modes and the rate of shifts in mobility patterns across airports in the regions of San Francisco, Portland, Denver, and Kansas City—all US DOT Smart City Challenge finalists. —Alejandro Henao, NREL postdoc.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 2, 2023

While new air-cooled Beetles remained available here through 1979, sales of those relics fell off a cliff while the revolutionary new hatchback became an instant sales hit on our continent. Since I began documenting interesting discarded vehicles , 16 years ago, I'd been seeking a first-year Rabbit in car graveyards all over the country.

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Teslarati

JULY 11, 2022

Hertz also clarified to us that Model Ys were included in the original order , and the 100,000 cars were not specifically Model 3 units. Hertz says it is ‘actively receiving’ Tesla Model 3 rental cars across the country. Denver, Colorado. Polestar begins deliveries of Polestar 2 as part of Hertz Deal.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

We’ve Entered the Age of Shared Mobility This article may contain affiliate links Car sharing has changed dramatically since C lean Fleet Report first reported on it almost two decades ago. Some auto companies have incorporated car sharing elements into their new business enterprises. New ideas like Tesloop keep popping up.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 26, 2023

Just over 20,000 Buick Reattas were made during the model's production run for the 1988 through 1991 model years, and I had documented seven of them in car graveyards prior to today's Junkyard Find. All of those cars were in reasonably good condition, but today's '88 is an example of a Reatta that was loved to death by its final owner.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 15, 2023

Today's Junkyard Find , found in a yard just south of Denver , is a nicely preserved example of the final year of the S110 Silvia , as well as of the Datsun name. This car sure looks a lot like the 1978-1983 Mitsubishi Galant Lambda hardtop , sold in North America as the Dodge Challenger and Plymouth Sapporo.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Ford Motor Company has named the first markets that will sell the Focus Electric, Ford’s all-electric passenger car: Atlanta; Austin and Houston, Texas; Boston; Chicago; Denver; Detroit; Los Angeles; San Francisco; San Diego; New York; Orlando, Fla.; Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Portland, Ore.; Raleigh Durham, N.C.; Richmond, Va.;

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 11, 2022

When Arjun Pillai was a youngster, the words entrepreneur and startup weren’t part of his vocabulary. His most recent venture, Insent , was a business-to-business chat platform based in Denver; it was acquired last year by software and data company ZoomInfo of Vancouver, Wash.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2015

Google Street View cars can be equipped with Aclima’s mobile sensing platform to measure nitrogen dioxide; nitric oxide; ozone; carbon monoxide; carbon dioxide; methane; black carbon; particulate matter; and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs). Sample output from the Denver pilot. Aclima, Inc., Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2020

A second one compared the rider demographics, usage patterns and injuries to those of 377 bicyclists who were interviewed as part of an earlier study. At the same time, e-scooter riders may find they aren’t entirely welcome on any part of their city’s transportation network. Shared e-scooters logged 86 million trips in the US in 2019.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant is starting production of the 2012 Focus Electric ( earlier post )—a five-passenger, battery-electric car Ford expects will achieve more than a 100 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) fuel economy rating. 1 gallon of gasoline=33.7 Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Portland, Ore.; Raleigh-Durham, N.C.;

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Electric Auto Association

MARCH 4, 2022

The Lucid Air is lauded for efficiency BY Gordon Hrodda, Member of Denver Electric Vehicle Council. Instead, Lucid reduced the weight of the car, producing a vehicle that is extremely efficient (nearly 5 miles per kwh despite a 118 kwh battery), has unsurpassed range (520 miles), AND accelerates faster than a standard Tesla S.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 26, 2023

I've been writing about junkyardified cars here at TTAC since November of 2010, when I documented a pair of Fiat 128s in a Denver boneyard. That's not quite as bad as it sounds, because I wrote about 13 Volvo 240s all residing in the same car graveyard in 2011's Northern California Volvo 240pocalypse article. Entiendes, Méndez

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Cars That Think

JUNE 11, 2023

Indeed, modern society runs on code: Whether you buy something online or in a store, check out a book at the library, fill a prescription, file your taxes, or drive your car, you are most probably interacting with a system that is powered by software. If Neo were to help us peel back the layers, we would find code all around us.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 24, 2023

Last week, a first-model-year Lark sedan showed up at a self-service yard just south of Denver , and I was there to document it in its final parking spot. Newly-formed American Motors did well selling efficient Ramblers starting in 1956, and Studebaker jumped in with its own small car for the 1959 model year : the Lark.

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 4, 2021

The Denver EAA chapter is still dedicated to its core mission nearly 50 years after its founding. Members of the Denver Electric Vehicle Council tour the Xcel Energy Cherokee power plant. Fifty years ago, there were no EVs available commercially. They want to know what their car will do. Air Force Academy. “We

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2017

This is the only engine/transmission combination available in the Tiguan in the US. Based on our half-day of driving the new Tiguan in the foothills of Denver, the automaker has succeeded on the quality front. This helps the car remain steerable while reducing stopping distance. Driver-Assistance Systems.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 24, 2006

Everything needed is available: the power trains, the gasoline engines, the computer systems, electric motors and batteries. Experts estimate there is sufficient generation in place and available at night to charge up to one-third of all vehicles in America, if they were plug-ins. are driven just 25 miles a day or less. “A

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2013

As part of its plan to significantly expand the mobility services business operations, Daimler Financial Services AG (DFS) has created a subsidiary known as Daimler Mobility Services GmbH (DMS). The number of available car2go vehicles will also increase from 6,100 to more than 10,000 by the end of 2013. —Robert Henrich.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 21, 2022

Each new multigrasping bionic hand tends to be more sophisticated but also more expensive than the last and less likely to be covered (even in part) by insurance. And yet, the common clinical evaluations to determine the success of a prosthetic are based on using only the prosthetic, without the help of other body parts.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 25, 2022

You may feel virtuous, thinking you’re doing your part to reduce waste. The truth about recycling in many parts of the United States and much of Europe is sobering. For countries that do curbside recycling, the number—called the recovery rate—appears to average around 70 to 90 percent, though widespread data isn’t available.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

We are excited to see how the combination of vastly large spaces available in Mega Caverns can be combined with very narrow cross-sections as DARPA promises and vertical structures. Since February, parts or all of the team have been testing 2-3 days a week in a section of the abandoned Subway system in downtown Los Angeles.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

AUGUST 3, 2009

The last time a production model of an electric car had traveled from coast to coast was in 1998, when an EV-1 made the journey without consuming an ounce of gasoline. Mr. Moore made available his Papillion home’s historic dryer outlet as a recharging site when the roadtrip reached the vicinity of Omaha, Nebraska.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

This program is currently available at 30 airports nationwide, including Salt Lake City International Airport and Denver International Airport ; the T.S.A. The pilot program is now available at five airports, including La Guardia Airport and Los Angeles International Airport. officer in verifying a traveler’s identity.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Put together, Subspace has created a "weather map" for the Internet that can spot choppy or stormy parts of the network and work around them for better, faster real-time data movement. Just because you pay a particular ISP for service doesn't mean that every request you make stays confined to the parts of the network they control.

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