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Is curbside charging the solution for the Plight of the Drivewayless? – Charged EVs

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Solutions from the clever to the silly have been proposed, but if we look at dense cities where adoption is already well advanced, we’re bound to conclude that the answer is simply curbside charging—lots of small, cheap chargers that can fit into existing street hardware such as lampposts.

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2023 Toyota Prius Limited Review – Finally a Worthy Choice

The Truth About Cars

A road trip to Detroit and back wasn’t too punishing. That finally makes the Prius a worthy choice for those who are looking for more than just a cheap fuel bill. Maybe the Detroit Lions are next in line for a championship. Well, I have lived long enough to see all of these things. To be sure, the Prius is no sports car.

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The Right Spec: 2024 Ford Mustang

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The venerable Mustang is new for 2024, becoming the last man standing from Detroit after the Challenger and Camaro shuffle off this mortal coil. It looks like a cheap dual-monitor setup at Dunder Mifflin and irritates me greatly.

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Ford expects inner combustion engine quantity, earnings to develop thru 2025

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DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. The ones enlargement plans are pushed by means of the corporate’s center of attention on successful automobile sections and high-margin, cheap derivatives. Kumar Galhotra, head of Ford Blue, mentioned benefit margins from combustion automobiles will develop from 7.2 these days to a minimum of 10 p.c

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Junkyard Find: 1978 Chrysler LeBaron Coupe

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The LeBaron name goes well back in Chrysler history, starting when the coachbuilder known as LeBaron Carrossiers was purchased by Detroit car-body-builder Briggs Manufacturing in 1926 and Chrysler bought Briggs in 1953.

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Report finds US automakers remain profitable under future CAFE standards even with fuel price fluctuation

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When gas is very cheap, people tend to buy bigger, more profitable trucks. In that event, the Detroit Three automakers could lose 300,000 vehicle sales, $1.08 The brief is a summary for investors and policy analysts of a larger study that will be available from Ceres in August 2016. With gas at $1.80 billion in profits, and 1.9

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Junkyard Find: 1948 Dodge Custom Sedan

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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. The '48 Dodge looked old-fashioned in its day, and so I shot this photograph with an Ansco Memo camera (which was made to shoot then-cheap 35mm movie film) from the late 1920s.

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