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Lockheed Martin Ventures invests in high performance electric motor manufacturer H3X

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The investment will be used to accelerate technology development and commercialization of H3X’s HPDM family of integrated motor drives and the scale-up of their new headquarters facility in Louisville, Colorado for production. H3X currently has three base products: the HPDM-30, the HPDM-250, and the HPDM-3000.

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Junkyard Find: 1964 Ford Fairlane 500 4-Door Sedan

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Here's one of those first-generation Fairlanes, found in a self-service boneyard just south of Denver, Colorado. There's a lot of great vintage stuff at Colorado Auto & Parts right now. The build tag tells us that this car was assembled at Ford's Kansas City plant on July 14, 1964 (the day Jaxques Anquetil won the Tour de France ).

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Junkyard Find: 2008 Mercury Sable, Press Loaner Flashback Edition

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This one is at the U-Pull-&-Pay in Colorado Springs , which is about an hour's drive from my pad but is still one of my favorite Front Range yards to visit. If you're desperate for Colorado junkyard Corvair content, check out this '63 Monza Club Coupe I shot a few months ago or this '68 500 Sport Coupe I shot last month.

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Where is Blink Charging a Verified State Vendor?

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We have been certified as EVSE vendors and designated as official suppliers for governments and related agencies in the following states: Colorado The State of Colorado awarded Blink Contract 176608 for the purchase of electric vehicle charging stations by the state government from 2022 to 2024.

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Canada and California to work together on cleaner transportation

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The cooperation will take a variety of forms, including establishing a working group that meets annually, sharing policy information and program design, providing capacity building and technical support, exchanges of personnel, cooperative research and development, and joint organization of symposia and trainings.

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Elio Motors begins work on Gen 5 prototype of $6,800, 84 MPG Vehicle

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The 506 (c) offering is made possible by the Jobs Act of 2012, and allows accredited investors to buy in to Elio Motors. Elio Motors is the first start-up auto company in the Unites States in the past 60 years to build its own unique internal combustion engine. where General Motors previously built the Hummer H3 and Chevy Colorado.

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Survey Shows Auto Dealers Still Annoyed With Biden EV Strategy

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.& While the Biden administration has a stated goal of seeing half of all new vehicle sales by electric by 2030, it’s technically prohibited from issuing formal mandates requiring what people can use their money to buy. stated Mike Aus, dealer principal of Durango Motor, which sells Ford, Lincoln, Kia and Toyota vehicles out of Colorado.

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