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Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Xcel Energy has launched a new pilot for customers of five major automakers to make it easier for consumers to make the switch to electric vehicles in Colorado and to charge their EVs at times when renewable energy production is high and demand on the energy grid is low. —Alice Jackson, president, Xcel Energy-Colorado.
The Truth About Cars
APRIL 22, 2024
Today's Junkyard Find is a first-generation B-van, found in a Colorado boneyard. Production continued through 2003, though major revisions took place in 1998 and body components from those vans won't swap with the 1971-1997 vans (underneath the skin, the chassis remained more or less unchanged).
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. Ford launched the Escape Hybrid as a 2005 model (its Mercury Mariner and Mazda Tribute siblings showed up a bit later), so The General had some catching up to do in the green-car department.
Clean Fleet Report
JANUARY 9, 2022
Today’s headline news is trucks, highlighted by General Motors CEO Mary Barra’s keynote unveiling the coming Chevrolet Silverado EV, announcing it was available for online reservations. The short hood makes it look more like the midsize Colorado. First Ride: 2022 Ford F-150. The bed is just a little shorter than six feet.
Charged EVs
DECEMBER 14, 2021
Three years and one global pandemic later, the company is now starting to deliver production versions of its 2022 R1T electric pickup truck to paying customers. Note that the Rivian R1T isn’t a direct competitor to next year’s Ford F-150 Lightning , the all-electric version of Ford’s best-selling full-size pickup truck.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 4, 2009
to 19,173 units) and Ford hybrids (up 323% to 5,353 units). General Motors. Chevrolet truck sales increased 27%, led by increases by Silverado, Suburban, Avalanche, Colorado, HHR and Equinox. Ford, Lincoln and Mercury retail sales increased 9% versus a year ago. Monthly sales of hybrids. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 5, 2009
Large automakers based in Michigan, including GM, Chrysler, and Ford, will receive a total of more than $400 million to manufacture thousands of advanced hybrid and electric vehicles as well as batteries and electric drive components. Production of manganese oxide cathode / graphite lithium-ion batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles.
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