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Junkyard Find: 1964 Mercury Montclair Four-Door Hardtop Marauder

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Today's Junkyard Find is an example of the second type of Marauderization (not to be confused with Moroder ization ) within the world of Ford's Mercury Division. Starting in 1958, Ford's new MEL ( M ercury- E dsel- L incoln) big-block V8 engine was given the Marauder name when installed in Mercury models. Louis on November 7, 1963.

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5 Top Destinations for a Spring Break EV Road Trip

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If you have an electric vehicle, vacations may include more planning, but the extended ranges available from many new EVs and an expanding charging infrastructure are making trips like these easier to take. You can ride in a Model T at the Henry Ford Museum and see the bus where Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat.

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Enterprise Rent-A-Car Adds 5,000 Hybrids to Nationwide Fleet

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The designated hybrid branches have a high concentration of the new hybrids available and, for the first time, customers can reserve these hybrids online or by phone. The new hybrids will be available in 24 major markets across the country, including the 10 busiest airports for business travelers in the United States.

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Yes, Automakers Stand To Benefit From Installing Public EV Charging Stations

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will need as many as 235,000 fast EV chargers to meet demand — up from about 47,000 chargers that are available today. The more that open networks are available, the lower the barrier to entry is for consumers who are on the fence about going electric. Looking at it another way, a recent PWC study forecasted that the U.S.

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Junkyard Find: 1972 Ford Econoline "BIG CHEESE"

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Perhaps it started out in St. Louis or Salt Lake City and moved to Colorado after its delivery days were over. The owner of Rosen-Novak Ford came to a bad end two decades ago. The new Ford Econoline carries everything… including the kitchen sink. The build tag says it was built at the Lorain plant in Ohio.

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ARPA-E awards $43M to 19 energy storage projects to advance electric vehicle and grid technologies

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Ford Motor Company. Ford Motor Company and Arbin Instruments will develop a. Washington University in St. Louis will develop a predictive. domestically available aluminum and magnesium and. These compact. fiber optical sensors will measure the battery’s health while in. use to avoid degradation and failure.