The Truth About Cars

JUNE 3, 2024

The problem is that the Chevrolet S-10 was the first of those all-American 1980s minitrucks, and discarded early-production examples are damnably hard to find today. In fact, the oldest example of a first-generation S-10 (or its GMC counterpart, the S-15) pickup I'd been able to find in a car graveyard prior to now was a 1988 model.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 18, 2024

Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. That car was the 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line, and I managed to find one in a Denver-area car graveyard recently. A 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line hybrid in a Colorado wrecking yard.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The 1960 model year saw a trio of brand-new compact Detroit cars ( the Corvair , Valiant and Falcon ) appear to do battle with increasingly popular small imports. Sales were strong, and the Detroit Big Three plus the Kenosha One got busy preparing midsize cars to slide between the compacts and the full - sizers. The 289 is long gone.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 2, 2024

Mitsubishi began selling cars with its own branding in the United States in late 1982 , introducing three car models and a pickup as 1983 models. Today's Junkyard Find is one of the very last Diamantes sold here, now residing in a Denver car graveyard. Hell, I drove a Mitsubishi Fuso box truck for a job a couple of years later.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Here's a car trivia question for you: what engine name went on to become the designation for a body style and then a car model name in its own right? The door tag tells us that this car was assembled in St. I say "was" because I shot these photos more than a year ago and this car was crushed before we even reached 2023.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) chose National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day to hold the dedication ceremony for its 700 bar hydrogen fueling station, the first of its kind in Colorado and in the national lab system. The new HITRF station in Golden builds on that experience and expertise.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 13, 2024

When you write about cars for a living, you can get carefully prepared vehicles dropped off at your door (or at airports) for you to experience and then review. The very first press car I ever received was a red 2008 Mercury Sable , so let's take a look at the same kind of car at the end of its 16-year career.

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Electric Cars Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

The first ever BMW XM Label—the company’s most powerful production vehicle to date with 738-horsepower and 738 lb-ft of torque on tap—set a new record for hybrid electric SUVs at Pikes Peak in Colorado Springs on September 21, 2023, during an officially certified course run.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2021

The motorcoaches and city transit buses are designed and developed by Lightning eMotors at their headquarters in Loveland, Colorado. Octillion is a Tier 1 supplier of advanced energy storage systems focused on the electrification of passenger cars, trucks and buses.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 23, 2023

Way back in May, we announced a giveaway for Meguiar's car-care products. So we're happy to announce that Nicholas& Rapisardi& of Northglenn, Colorado; Leigh Connor of Beaver, Pennsylvania; and Gary Babick of Hebron, Connecticut are the winners! We now have the winners!

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2018

This all-electric prototype racing car will compete in the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb on 24 June in Colorado. The four-wheel-drive racing car points to the sporting potential of the I.D. The four-wheel-drive racing car points to the sporting potential of the I.D. R Pikes Peak.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 29, 2024

This isn't the highest-mile Volvo 740 wagon I've ever found in a car graveyard. The highest-mile discarded Volvo I've ever documented was a 1990 240 sedan in Colorado with 631,999 miles. Then there's a whole bunch of junked 240s with odometers showing between 300,411 and 393,888 miles , all found in Colorado or California.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2017

General Motors is expanding its portfolio of B20-capable vehicles to include cars and crossovers, and will field the industry’s most expansive lineup of diesel-powered vehicles in 2017, John Schwegman, director of commercial product and medium duty for GM Fleet, announced at the National Biodiesel Conference. Chevrolet Colorado.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 28, 2023

For a few years after the end of World War II, Detroit's automakers sold mildly facelifted prewar designs while they made the switch back to peacetime production. Yes, heaters were considered frivolous luxuries by many buyers of affordable cars in the 1940s. Some of its parts are in good enough condition to live on in other cars.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 25, 2024

Adding this trim to the Heavy Duty line completes a trifecta of sorts, with Trail Boss now showing up on midsize Colorado, half-ton Silverado 1500, and now these brutish HDs. Pricing will be announced closer to the start of production. What makes a Trail Boss? There’s a spate of black-out packages for 2025 as well.

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Baua Electric

MAY 12, 2023

The marketplace percentage of franchised sellers in Washington, Colorado and alternative states that let direct gross sales and apply California’s condition requirements is also declining and launch to devour into their attainable benefit puddle.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2017

Solaria Labs , an innovation incubator established in 2015 by Liberty Mutual Insurance, is introducing an open API developer portal that combines public data with proprietary insurance knowledge, helping to inform future products and apps for customers. This information can help with safe routing technology. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2017

After an absence from the event of more than 30 years, Volkswagen is developing an all-electric race car for the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in Colorado on 24 June 2018. The all-wheel-drive prototype’s goal is to set a new record for electric cars at the finish line, 14,000 feet above sea level. The race course is 12.4

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Tesla has been ramping up Cybertruck production in the days since the delivery event late last month, and many have recently been receiving invites to configure their own Foundation Series editions of the vehicle. states, after they were originally only being sent to those in California in Texas.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2015

Mercedes-Benz has set a new record for the diesels in the Pikes Peak hill-climb race with a near-production C 300 d 4MATIC. The 150 kW (204 hp) C 300 d 4MATIC (in Europe known as 250 d) fitted with a 7G-TRONIC PLUS automatic transmission competed in the hill-climb race in largely series-production configuration.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 20, 2024

While typing in locations across California, Oregon, Washington, and Nevada yields results showing the nearest place to test drive the new Model 3, typing in zip codes from other states, such as Utah and Colorado, only offers the message listed below: “Model 3 demo drives are currently unavailable near your location.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 21, 2023

It was so successful that it stayed in production in essentially its original form through three corporations and into the following century. Today's Junkyard Find is one of the very last XJ Cherokees ever made, found in a Wyoming car graveyard last week. liter four-cylinder , a couple of diesels, and even the 2.8-liter

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Baua Electric

APRIL 10, 2024

The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC) is an annual event held in Colorado Springs, Colorado. While Hyundai is still remaining hush about the car Shute will be wheeling up Pikes Peak, the brand has confirmed Dallenbach will be driving a production version of IONIQ 5 N also seen below.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2020

That was also the week that oil exporting countries hammered out the OPEC+ deal—with the direct involvement of the United States—to reduce production in a greatly oversupplied market experiencing record-low crude prices. And now we’re seeing demand ‘uncontracting’ as people get back into their cars.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This will enable the mill to produce some of the world’s greenest steel and steel products. Already, the plant recycles scrap metal to produce new steel products, including what it says is some of the most sustainably made rail in the world.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2018

They will be complemented with additional sensing LiDAR technologies for short range and side-looking visibility around the vehicles, as well as radars and cameras, ensuring a 360-degree field of view around the car with redundant sensing coverage to enable AID’s safe autonomous driving fleet.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 21, 2018

A basket of sensors buried in the pavement will measure the speed, weight, and trajectory of vehicles that pass over it.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2014

Lightning Hybrids , a maker of hydraulic hybrid systems for medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses ( earlier post ), released initial results from emissions testing conducted by an independent testing facility in Colorado of two medium-duty trucks upfitted with the Lighting Hybrids system.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The long-term goal of the LM3I Institute will be to expand the market for and create new consumers of products and systems that utilize new, lightweight, high?performing There are significant challenges for new lightweight and modern metals to reach widespread commercial production. ThermoCalc; TIMET; Trumpf, Inc.;

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2016

We are creating completely new products for our customers, and are therefore turning Volkswagen from a car manufacturer into a mobility provider. ”. Pivotal is supporting our experts with over 20 experts from San Francisco and Boulder, Colorado, and is training them in new software development methods.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2012

The production-ready HD 220 will make its debut at the Electric Vehicle Symposium (EVS26) conference in Los Angeles, 6-9 May 2012. Delivering a maximum output of 220kW, and 120kW on a continuous basis, the HD 220 is production-ready and would be built in the UQM volume-production manufacturing facility in Colorado.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 12, 2022

First, Ford’s investment into Solid Power , a Colorado-based battery lab working on solid-state batteries, has yielded rumoredly ready-to-ship prototypes to Ford and the other major investor BMW by the end of this year. with a new mine and production facility. Albemarle Corp., The company plans to expand mining to the Southwestern U.S.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 26, 2023

Just over 20,000 Buick Reattas were made during the model's production run for the 1988 through 1991 model years, and I had documented seven of them in car graveyards prior to today's Junkyard Find. The ECC and digital dash have been pulled from this car, though it's likely that they weren't in working order.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 29, 2023

Teaser for 2024 Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 Bison debuting on May 31, 2023 Chevrolet’s redesigned Colorado has just spawned a ZR2 off-road model for 2023, but come the 2024 model year there will be a more capable ZR2 Bison grade. There’s no longer a V-8 option, and that will likely also extend to the future E 63 from AMG.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

& From Automotive News : A top concern was the EPA's proposed limits on vehicle tailpipe pollution for 2027-32 model-year cars and light trucks — a regulatory move that, if finalized, could result in battery-electric vehicles making up two-thirds of new-vehicle sales by 2032, according to the agency's projections.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 16, 2024

In demonstrations, including one last summer at National Renewable Energy Lab facilities in Colorado, the truck proved capable of driving 290-kilometers, then taking on the roles of power plant, mobile command center, and (courtesy of the truck’s “exhaust”) supplier of clean drinking water.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 1, 2024

HRI 2024 : 11–15 March 2024, BOULDER, COLORADO, USA Eurobot Open 2024 : 8–11 May 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCE ICRA 2024 : 13–17 May 2024, YOKOHAMA, JAPAN RoboCup 2024 : 17–22 July 2024, EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS Enjoy today’s videos! We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months.

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