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Junkyard Find: 1959 Renault Dauphine

The Truth About Cars

I discovered a Mexican-market '06 Peugeot 407 in a Denver boneyard, earlier this year, and thought years would pass before the next time I'd hear the ghosts of André Citroën , Louis Renault , and Armand Peugeot singing La Marseillaise over a car graveyard. Up to 40 miles to the gallon of gas. The Crusher awaits.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

For some Americans it gives a chance to drive and experience a different car, maybe an electric car they might be thinking of purchasing. Self-driving cars has been a focus of Uber for the last half of the decade with the company racking up about 80,000 autonomous miles a week as it strives to bring driverless cars into the mix.

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The New Supersonic Boom

Cars That Think

The best-funded of this group is Denver-based Boom Technology (which also goes by the trade name Boom Supersonic). 1,100 miles per hour) without producing a loud, disturbing sonic boom on the ground." This past June, United Airlines announced its intention to purchase 15 Overture airliners from Boom Technology. Boom Supersonic.

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Xcel Energy and Customer Coalition To Be Among First Users of Electric Transit Connect

Green Car Congress

Xcel Energy, a major US electricity and natural gas company, will add two of the 13 vans into its corporate fleet. The company will also provide $20,000 grants from its Chairman’s Fund to support the purchase of 11 additional Ford Transit Connect Electric vans for its project partners. The city of Saint Paul, Minn.,

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More Electric Cars in Las Vegas with Stan Hanel's Story on the RAR'ster. with EVJerr Back to Webblogging, Sunday, 13 September 2009

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

Michael purchased a new white Tesla Roadster with the intention of making a cross-country trip that would be powered only by homegrown American electrons. Corporate sponsorship for the RAR ( www. This time it would be with a Tesla Motors Roadster!