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Junkyard Find: 1986 Dodge Aries SE Four-Door Sedan

The Truth About Cars

Today, we'll look at a K sedan that survived 36 years before being retired in California. The emissions sticker tells us that this car was originally sold in California, and that its first owner paid $99 extra ($277 now) for the equipment that made it meet the Golden State's smog requirements. This car has the base 2.2,

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Road Test: 2022 Chrysler Pacifica Limited Plug-in Hybrid

Clean Fleet Report

Chrysler calls it a “multipurpose vehicle,” but we will stick with modern minivan. In 464 miles driving through Southern California, Clean Fleet Report achieved a combined 38.8 The only minivan with a plug. If Chrysler had their way, you will see it more as a multi-purpose vehicle than a minivan. How It Works.

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Road Test: 2021 Chrysler Pacifica Plug-in Hybrid

Clean Fleet Report

If you are one of those “I will never drive a minivan” type of persons, please keep reading. When Clean Fleet Report first reviewed the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid in 2017, it was the only electrified minivan on the market. But the landscape has changed since 2017 as the 2021 Toyota Sienna minivan is now a hybrid.

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Who will be in the driver’s seat?

Electric Auto Association

“Mothers are driving the kids, the dog, and lots of stuff around town and there haven’t been a lot of electric minivans. Community choice aggregation (CCA) programs are now widespread in California, and they give families access to affordable 100% renewable energy, regardless of whether they rent or own their home or apartment.

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Road Test: 2024 Dodge Hornet R/T Plus Plug-In Hybrid

Clean Fleet Report

seconds MPG: 29 combined and 77 combined MPGe (miles per gallon equivalent, a measurement of how far a car can travel, electrically, on the same amount of energy as is contained in 1 gallon of gasoline) Efficient around town Clean Fleet Report drove the Hornet R/T Plus PHEV 157 miles through Southern California, averaging 31.8

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

Cars That Think

Fuzzy theory is wrong, wrong, and pernicious,” said William Kahan, a highly regarded professor of computer sciences and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. As a child, Zadeh was surrounded by governesses and tutors, while as a young adult, he had a personal servant. The denunciations were sometimes extreme.

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

Clean Fleet Report

In 1989, GM was selling small cars with a variety of origins, including the slightly revised Toyota Corollas (branded as the Chevrolet Nova) that were assembled in a joint Toyota-GM plant in Fremont, California (now home to Tesla). Next up will be the ID.Buzz electric minivan. America doesn’t get the ID.3, Sub-brand, the ID.4

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