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Used Car of the Day: 1992 Volvo 940 GL Sedan

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The seller claims to have purchased it new and says the car has been a California car all its life. The A/C works (it's 134), the seats are leather, and the car is original save for the sway bars, legal window tint, undercoating, and a pin stripe. The seller says the car has run Mobil 1 oil.

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Salt water powered sports car revealed

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Meet the Quant e-Sportlimousine – a salt water powered sports car which has recently been accepted as street-legal in Germany. First revealed at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this year, this impressive luxury vehicle delivers 0-62mph in 2.8 seconds and a top speed 236mph, despite its unusual power[.]. Latest News'

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New Emissions Analytics study suggests pollution from tire wear now 1,850 times worse than exhaust emissions

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Since that study, which was transparently designed to quantify the worst-case tire emissions under legal driving, Emissions Analytics has been testing and analyzing tire wear emissions in more detail across a wider range of driving conditions, and has performed a detailed chemical analysis of hundreds of new tires. —Emissions Analytics.

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Tesla Giga Berlin expansion objections rejected by Environmental Agency

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Tesla aims to increase its vehicle production capacity from 500,000 units per year to 1 million cars annually. He stated that Tesla’s updates to its documents are legal. In August, the Strausberg-Erkner Water Association (WSE) rejected Tesla’s Giga Berlin expansion plans. Zschiegner is from the State Office of the Environment.

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T&E: tests show cars powered by electrofuels emit high levels of criteria pollutants

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Due to the lack of commercially available e-fuels, IFPEN had to blend three e-fuel blends itself representative of potential future fuel that are compatible with gasoline cars. The ethanol and e-fuel would separate out similarly to oil and water. E-fuels have lost the race to clean up cars, but in truth it was never even close.

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QOTD: Snow Foolin'

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For example, my tester this week is front-wheel drive, and this morning I was accelerating and felt the wheels break loose and started to slide towards the parked cars on the side of the road. Who shods their cars with winter rubber? Chains (assuming they're legal where you live)? What do you guys do? Who carries a shovel?

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BMW shows future drive technoliges; 2 Series PHEV prototype, direct water injection in 3-cyl. engine, and fuel cell eDrive

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The company also showcased the use of direct water injection to enhance the efficiency of combustion engines at higher performance levels while also significantly reducing fuel consumption and emissions in key driving cycles. Direct water injection. Bosch and water injection. BMW 2 Series Active Tourer plug-in hybrid prototype.

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