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Junkyard Find: 1988 Volvo 740 GLE with 403,348 miles

The Truth About Cars

Today we'll honor the 740 longroof by admiring one that drove past the 400k-mile mark during its career. This isn't the highest-mile Volvo 740 wagon I've ever found in a car graveyard. That honor belongs to a 1990 740 Turbo wagon with 493,549 miles , spotted at the Oakland Pick-n-Pull back in 2020.

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Frito-Lay buying 100 more Smith Electric Vehicle trucks in 2012; natural gas coming for tractor fleet

Green Car Congress

To date, these trucks have accumulated 1 million miles and eliminated the need for approximately 200,000 gallons of diesel fuel. The all-electric trucks are delivery trucks used on urban routes with fewer daily miles. The company piloted 18 CNG vehicles to prepare for the roll-out.

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Ford CEO Jim Farley argues a new ‘anxiety’ plagues consumers from EVs

Teslarati

” The comments came in response to Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm’s recent four-day, 600-mile journey from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Memphis, Tennessee, with a fleet of legacy automaker electric vehicles. . “We’re going into the mass consumers who have a lot of charging anxiety.”

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Green Friday | Black Friday

My Energi

We can’t buy these moments online or staring down aisles awash with cardboard and plastic. In 2018, S T O W E A W A Y A R T was founded by traveling creative enthusiast and our very own internal Creative Designer Charlotte Stowe. There are many great reasons to buy and support local business.

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NASCAR embraces green cars

Green Cars News

According to Ed Laukes, Toyota’s corporate manager of motorsports marketing, it is a demonstration of performance - taking a car that literally anyone can buy and passing the performance characteristics necessary to appear in NASCAR. So why has it suddenly embraced hybrid cars?

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

At these prices, people are buying the "environmental feature" -- they want to be among the first owners of the worlds cleanest extended-range vehicles. They are early adopters, buying "Version 1.0" Pricing from $8-15,000 for installed low-speed EV range of 8-24 miles. PHEVs with "Good Enough to Get Started" batteries.

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President Obama Outlines Vision and Plan for US High-Speed Passenger Rail System; $13B to Start

Green Car Congress

The near-term investment strategy seeks to: Advance new express high-speed corridor services (operating speeds above 150 mph (241 km/h) on primarily dedicated track) in select corridors of 200-600 miles (322-966 km). (As Southeast Corridor (Washington, Richmond, Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta, Macon, Columbia, Savannah, Jacksonville).

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