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Junkyard Find: 1977 Dodge Tradesman 200 Mystery Machine

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The Chrysler Corporation sold vans based on the B-Series platform from the 1971 through 2003 model years, giving them Dodge , Plymouth and Fargo badging along the way. Today's Junkyard Find is a first-generation B-van, found in a Colorado boneyard. The build tag says it was built at St. A Sentra Mystery Machine?

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Junkyard Find: 1972 Ford Econoline "BIG CHEESE"

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Customized Detroit vans from the 1960s and 1970s , of course ! Today's Junkyard Find is just such a van, a Colorado second-generation Econoline called BIG CHEESE. Perhaps it started out in St. Louis or Salt Lake City and moved to Colorado after its delivery days were over. There isn't much of a hood here.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

Green Car Congress

The project will deploy 882 propane vehicles, including 245 propane school buses, 24 medium-duty propane trucks and vans, and 613 propane-fueled light-duty vehicles for 40 school districts and public agencies. Tags: Biodiesel Electric (Battery) Ethanol Fleets Fuels Heavy-duty Hybrids LNG Natural Gas. Total DOE award: $9,408,389.

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President Obama Announces 48 Projects to Receive $2.4B in Grants for Next-Generation of Batteries and Electric Vehicles; To be Combined with $2.4B in Industry Cost-Share

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Outfitting of a high-volume manufacturing facility to build DC Bus Capacitors for the electric drive vehicle industry. Manufacturing: Warren, MI and St. Louis, MO; Deployment: 11 partner fleets. Deploy up to 150 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, including 130 Ford Escape PHEVs and 20 Ford E450 Van PHEVs. Powerex, Inc.

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