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Used Car of the Day: 2014 Ford Focus ST

The Truth About Cars

Today's used car of the day is a 2014 Ford Focus ST that asks $14,500 and is based in Oregon. If cheap hatchback speed is your thing, click to check it out. The car is on its second owner and has a clean title. The seller says it has never been in an accident, though a body panel was replaced after a minor incident with a mailbox.

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Univ of Washington team working to make poplar coppice viable cheap, high-volume biofuel feedstock

Green Car Congress

Our research proved that poplar coppice can be a good option to meet the cheap, high-volume criteria of biofuel feedstock. For this study, trees in Jefferson, Oregon—one of the four study sites—were planted in rows close together in spring of 2012 and harvested less than two years later before the leaves had fallen.

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New nanolithia cathodes may address technical drawbacks of Li-air batteries; scalable, cheap and safer Li-air battery system

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Overall, the new battery system is “ very scalable, cheap, and much safer ” than lithium-air batteries, Li says. —Xiulei Ji, assistant professor of chemistry at Oregon State University, who was not involved in this work. And the cobalt oxide component weighs less than 50% of the nanolithia component.

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Honda looks to build a $14 billion EV and battery plant in Canada

Baua Electric

After calling off beats with GM to “beat out Tesla” with a cheap SUV, it has now emerged with news that it is mulling over a $14 billion EV and battery plant in Canada. The Honda Clarity, an awkwardly proportioned electric sedan, was launched in California and Oregon a few years back but was axed pretty soon after that due to low sales.

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Breakthrough in study of aluminum could yield new technological advances

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Now, aluminum is increasingly important in electronics, particularly as a “green” component that’s cheap, widely available and environmentally benign. The research was made possible, in part, by collaboration between chemists at OSU and the University of Oregon, through the Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry.

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How to Navigate EV Charging Rebates and Successfully Fund Your Home Charging Station

EV Match

In this follow-up to our article covering commercial incentives from last month, we’ll explore some of the rebates that can help you bring EV charging home on the cheap. Pacific Power – California, Oregon, Washington. It’s hard to beat the convenience of charging your electric vehicle while it sits unused for several hours.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Charged EVs

I was a big part of building the first-of-its-kind—at least in the Western world that we knew of—heavy-duty charging site in Portland, Oregon. Iron phosphate batteries are great because they’re durable, they’re cheap. Charged : You’ve also said that heavy-duty charging is going to be a huge hurdle. Rustam Kocher: It is. It won’t work.

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