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Chevrolet introduces Colorado Duramax Diesel midsize pickup

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Chevrolet has introduced the diesel version ( earlier post ) of its 2016 Colorado midsize pickup truck. Colorado is the 2015 Motor Trend Truck of the Year and Cars.com’s Best Pickup Truck of 2015.) It is also the cleanest diesel truck engine ever produced by General Motors. Colorado’s new 2.8L 1 compression ratio.

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Junkyard Find: 1964 Ford Fairlane 500 4-Door Sedan

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Here's one of those first-generation Fairlanes, found in a self-service boneyard just south of Denver, Colorado. There's a lot of great vintage stuff at Colorado Auto & Parts right now. This car had a snow-encrusted oil painting by Stone, resting on the trunk lid when I arrived. Army staff car , a 1965 Dodge D-200 U.S.

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DOE awards $17M to FY 2014 SBIR Phase II projects; includes Si/graphene anodes, motor windings, exhaust treatments

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Vehicle technologies span a range from new Si/graphene Li-ion anode materials and composites for motor windings to diesel aftertreatment and advanced lubricants. These additives decrease clumping of nanoparticles in the oil and improve friction and wear properties. Composite Coatings for Low-Cost Motor Windings in Electric Vehicles.

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DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

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San Juan River-Raton-Black Mesa Basin (Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico): New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology plans to determine the rare earth elements and critical minerals resource potential in coal and related stratigraphic units in the San Juan and Raton basins in New Mexico. DOE Funding: $1,499,997. DOE Funding: $1,499,817.

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Elio Motors unveils engine prototype for 84 mpg highway 3-wheeler

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Elio Motors, the start-up developing a $6,800, 84-mpg- (2.8l/100 —Paul Elio, President and CEO of Elio Motors. Recently, Elio Motors and Altair simulated a belted occupant and driver airbag in a frontal crash. 100 km) three-wheeled vehicle with a target date of 2016, unveiled its engine prototype: a 0.9-liter,

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Junkyard Find: 1988 Buick Reatta Coupe

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Even though California now has legal cannabis, those West Coast lightweights are far behind Colorado when it comes to slapping cannabis-themed stickers in and on their cars. There's an oil pressure gauge under the hood as well. This Reatta has such stickers inside the engine compartment.

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Start-up AEV developing battery-electric shuttle buses for China, India and US markets

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Colorado-based American Electric Vehicles (AEV)—a company co-founded by Dr. Dan Rivers, who also co-founded Li-ion battery company Compact Power Inc. Rivers said that the trends toward less expensive batteries and more expensive oil were combining to make an attractive value proposition. Prototype of the AEV e-shuttle.

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