Charged EVs

JANUARY 24, 2025

Case study: Early electric tugs designed specifically for GM In 2006, GM came to Eagle Tugs with a project to standardize its tow tractor (tugger) fleet across all its plants worldwide. Since we cannot direct electrons to specific loads, the microgrid will supply whatever demand exists, limited to its available output.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Even by the standards of the far-flung General Motors Empire, the J-Body was found everywhere , from the Vauxhall Cavaliers of Great Britain to the Isuzu Askas of Japan to the Daewoo Esperas of South Korea. Today's Junkyard Find is a sporty Sunbird coupe, found in a yard just south of Denver, Colorado. This engine is a SOHC 2.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2023

Since consumer skepticism regarding public charging availability is the primary reason vehicle shoppers reject EVs, this performance could prove to be a further hindrance to EV acceptance. The availability of public charging stations is still a critical obstacle, but it isn’t the only one. EV owners in the Miami-Port St.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2017

Chicago, Portland, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, Miami, and Raleigh—and several highway corridors. 50+ kW Direct Current (DC) fast charging will serve ZEV needs in shorter dwell time situations and along highway corridors, utilizing non-proprietary charging standards (CCS and CHAdeMO).

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 29, 0002

I've long thought that the "bustleback" 1980-1985 Cadillac Seville was even goofier-looking than those two, and I've found this '82 in a Denver-area car graveyard to share with you. liter diesel V8 was available as a Seville option, but the V8-6-4 was limo-only by 1982. Power (just about) everything was standard on the Seville.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 28, 2024

Still, there were four Fiat models available here during the first couple of years of the 1980s, including the mid-engined X1/9. Here's one of those cars, found in a car graveyard near Denver recently. The X1/9 got Bertone badges and was available here through 1989, while the 124 Sport Spider became a Pininfarina.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The upgrade will increase the availability of Redeem at the nation’s largest alternative fuel station in America’s largest port complex. The San Pedro Ports Clean Air Action Plan will start imposing a container rate, scheduled to start next year, on containers that are hauled by trucks that do not meet stricter emission standards.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 1, 2023

General Motors built cars on the N Platform and its derivatives from the 1985 through 2005 model years, and five-speed manual transmissions were available on various N-based machines throughout that time. Air conditioning and an AM/FM/CD radio were standard equipment on all 2001 Aleros.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 12, 2023

Finally, in a Denver-area boneyard , I found this battered '93 GXE sedan. We can assume that generous rebates and discounts were available on new '93 Stanza Altimas. It appears that no airbags were available on any first-year Stanza Altimas here. The original Altima was the replacement for the U12 Bluebird -derived Stanza here.

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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. The firewall tag says it's a 59V Deluxe, which the Standard Catalog describes as being built only for "special order sales, Marshal sales, fleet sales and sales outside the United States."

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 11, 2024

Today's Junkyard Find is one of those cars, found in a self-service boneyard near Denver, Colorado. After that, imported cars had to be brought into strict compliance with the smallest fine print of federal vehicle standards, something almost no shops could handle. After years of intensive Mercedes-Benz-backed lobbying, H.R.2628

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The General's Oldsmobile Division reached a high-water mark of sorts for the 1991 model year, with 11 distinct models available. Calais is neither warm nor particularly rich and it got comprehensively obliterated during World War II, but the name must have seemed exotic and classy by 1960s Michigan standards. Priorities!

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 29, 2024

The Denver e-bike voucher program regularly offers new tranches of vouchers at specific intervals throughout the year, with local residents eagerly awaiting the chance to log in and sign up to hopefully receive a coveted voucher. At the highest level, rebates for up to $1,400 off the price of an electric bicycle are available.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 24, 2006

Plug-ins could be recharged by plugging into a standard wall socket, delivering “electric” gallons of gas for about 75 cents a gallon at prevailing electric rates. Everything needed is available: the power trains, the gasoline engines, the computer systems, electric motors and batteries.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Here's one of the first Sportages brought to our shores, found in a yard south of Denver, Colorado. The 1995 Sportage was available in the United States with standard part-time four-wheel-drive; for 1996, Sportage buyers here could choose between front- and four-wheel-drive.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 22, 2024

We saw a discarded 1983 AE72 Corolla wagon in California over the summer, and now it's the turn of a sporty TE72 Corolla Liftback that I spotted recently in a Denver-area boneyard. *Ed. The only engine available in the 1980-1982 North American Corolla was the 1.8-liter note -- I moved JF around this week for mundane scheduling reasons.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A 14″ standard touchscreen (with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto support) is at the center of an otherwise minimalistic setup. According to online car research firm CarsDirect , the 2024 Lexus RZ 300e Premium is available at just $299 for 36 months, with $0 due at signing.

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Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Silently Crushing Rocks and Sand The 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 XRT is only available with Hyundais HTRAC all-wheel drive with two motors producing 74 kW (front) + 165 kW (rear) for a total of 320 horsepower and 446 pound-feet of torque. The Ioniq 5 has standard ABS and power-assisted, ventilated front and rear solid discs.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The shifts in online usage created by the pandemic are also strengthening the case to further democratize the Internet—the idea that there must be a universal, consistent standard of use to everyone, regardless of who or where they are. Instead, it might make more sense to detour through Dallas. It's a common scourge of multiplayer games.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 27, 2025

We'll fix that today, with this painfully clean W124 wagon found in a boneyard just south of Denver. That's not quite up to the standards of the 601k-mile W201 or the three W123 oil-burners that beat the 400k mark, but the W124 has earned a legitimate reputation for reliability over the decades. Just ask European taxi drivers.

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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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Cars That Think

AUGUST 21, 2022

Disabled people are still not the arbiters of prosthetic standards; we are still not at the heart of design. Left: John Prieto/The Denver Post/Getty Images; Right: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis/Getty Images. A hammer attachment [right] may be more effective than a gripping attachment when hammering nails into wood.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 11, 2023

In 2005, faulty software for the US $176 million baggage-handling system at Denver International Airport forced the whole thing to be scrapped. So why should AI-generated code be held to a higher standard? It may fail unexpectedly, have unanticipated consequences, or be vulnerable to attack, sometimes resulting in immense damage.

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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. In Kentucky we have been busy updating all of the robots to the same standard and repairing bits of shipping damage before the Subt Final. Team MARBLE.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

AUGUST 3, 2009

Mr. Moore made available his Papillion home’s historic dryer outlet as a recharging site when the roadtrip reached the vicinity of Omaha, Nebraska. EV conversion technologies have now made these types of vehicles possible and available through affiliates of the EAA, such as CalCars and Plug-in Supply.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 3, 2025

At least Isuzu commercial trucks are still available. The I-Mark faded away after 1989, leaving the Impulse as the only Isuzu-badged new car available in the United States for 1990. The cheapest 1991 new car with a standard airbag! In 2009, Isuzu announced that it would be departing our shores. Why not the Corolla?

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Here's one of those cars, found at a family-owned yard just south of Denver. While the B was underpowered and unreliable even by the forgiving standards of the late 1980s, I had great affection for it at the time. An automatic transmission was available for UK-market MGBs, for some reason, but the U.S.-market horsepower.

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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. Look at all that great standard equipment! Full gauges were standard equipment in this car. Make sure you get the Exciting Turbo (sorry, only available in Japan).

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 7, 2023

It was available here in sedan , coupe , hatchback , and wagon form… and as a pickup known as the BRAT. Today's Junkyard Find is a second-generation BRAT, found in a self-service yard between Denver and Cheyenne. Unlike the other versions of the Leone sold in North America, every BRAT had four-wheel-drive as standard equipment.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

He was active in the IEEE Denver Section and was a founding member of the IEEE Pikes Peak Section , in Colorado Springs. Now oral histories from all four GPS fathers— Brad Parkinson , James Spilker , Richard Schwartz , and Hugo Fruehauf —are available online.

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Blink Charging

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Why building codes are important Building codes are important for standardizing building quality and safety. In the absence of charging stations, EV drivers sometimes plug a travel EV charging cord into an available 110V wall outlet, which can create a tripping hazard, as well as a fire hazard if the travel cord is damaged.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

AIEE members and guests in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, New York, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco had telephone receivers at their seats so they could listen in. More than a century before Zoom made virtual meetings a pedestrian experience, telephone lines linked auditoriums from coast to coast. First up: roll call.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 7, 2025

One current example: At the Hoxton, Florence , in Italy, which opened in March, members can book a late May stay for a starting nightly rate of $235, compared with the standard $470. At press time, a sample starting rate in May on the Design Hotels site was $266 per night half the standard $532. will lead, he says.

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