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Nissan Will Pay You $1,000 to Buy a Leaf if You Own a Chevy Bolt

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If you own a Chevy Bolt and have considered buying a Nissan Leaf, this could be your time to shine. Nissan is offering Bolt owners a $1,000 credit towards buying a Leaf, and nationally, the automaker has lease specials as low as $100 monthly. That does not compare favorably to the Bolt EV, which offers 259 miles of range.

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Queensland government commits to buy over 400 locally made electric buses

The Driven EV News

Queensland premier Steven Miles has announced plans to deliver over 400 zero emission buses to replace aging diesel buses in operation on the Translink network. The post Queensland government commits to buy over 400 locally made electric buses appeared first on The Driven.

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Junkyard Find: 1995 Subaru Legacy L Wagon with 366,223 miles

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When it comes to junkyard cars with impressively high final odometer numbers, Toyotas , Hondas , Volvos and Mercedes-Benzes seem to be the most likely to have driven better than 400,000 miles during their lives. Well, today's Junkyard Find is the highest-mile discarded Fuji Heavy Industries product I've ever found. How about Subaru?

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Hertz CEO Leaves After Buying 100,000 Teslas

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But few are notable as the debacle at Hertz, a company which most gearheads know decided to buy tens of thousands of electric vehicles only to bin them at severely subvented prices. Our own Matt Posky rightly points out it’s a function of how rental cars are generally used, where it is not unusual for renters to pile on 700 miles in a day.

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Mazda restarts MX-30 100-mile EV program without rotary range extender or rationale for buying it

Electrek

After a brief hiatus, the Japanese automaker has brought its 100-mile range EV back to the masses … of California. The post Mazda restarts MX-30 100-mile EV program without rotary range extender or rationale for buying it appeared first on Electrek.

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Junkyard Find: 1986 Dodge Ram 50 with 313,560 miles

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My definition of "impressive" varies by manufacturer, so Honda and Toyota products now need at least 400,000 miles to meet that threshold. Mitsubishi, however, is a different story; today's Junkyard Find is the first discarded Mitsubishi I've ever documented with better than 300,000 total miles. 1986 Dodge Ram 50 in Colorado junkyard.

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

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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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