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Junkyard Find: 1993 Nissan Stanza Altima GXE

The Truth About Cars

Finally, in a Denver-area boneyard , I found this battered '93 GXE sedan. One of its owners applied faux-carbon-fiber decals to the dash trim, as one does. There's no mention of the Stanza name in this TV commercial Ozone-friendly air conditioning! It was based on the following Bluebird generation, the U13.

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Aclima partnering with Google to map outdoor air quality with Street View vehicles

Green Car Congress

Google Street View cars can be equipped with Aclima’s mobile sensing platform to measure nitrogen dioxide; nitric oxide; ozone; carbon monoxide; carbon dioxide; methane; black carbon; particulate matter; and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs). Sample output from the Denver pilot. Click to enlarge.

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The New Supersonic Boom

Cars That Think

Meanwhile, environmentalists were voicing concern—about how noisy such aircraft are taking off, about the possibility that their high-altitude emissions would erode the ozone layer, and about how disruptive the sonic booms would be. The last of these issues was perhaps the most vexing, prompting the U.S.