Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2009

Coca-Cola Enterprises uses tractors as its standard bulk delivery truck for large deliveries, and plans to deploy the Kenworth hybrid tractors to Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Montreal, New Orleans, New York, Portland (Ore.), Gary Kapusta, CCE vice president of indirect procurement.

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Cars That Think

MAY 26, 2025

The organization says it wants to make use of its most experienced and knowledgeable engineers. The IEEE Standards Associations Technology Standards for the Aging activity plans to offer a session to discuss technical standards being developed to ensure such products are interoperable, safe, and secure.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2018

A team at the University of Denver has measured the emissions from two in-use California heavy-duty truck fleets—at the Port of Los Angeles and the Cottonwood weigh station in Northern California—using the On-Road Heavy-Duty Measurement System in 2013, 2015 and 2017. g/bhp-hr PM standard and 0.2 g/bhp-hr NO x standard.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 24, 2025

Case study: Early electric tugs designed specifically for GM In 2006, GM came to Eagle Tugs with a project to standardize its tow tractor (tugger) fleet across all its plants worldwide. Eagle designed the RTT series A/C electric line of tow tractors with extensive input from GM operators, as well as safety and manufacturing engineers.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 13, 2025

That day has come, with this 2015 model in a Denver self-service boneyard. The Denver U-Pull-&-Pay had this photo in the "Misc" make section , and it looked intriguing enough to make me look up the VIN. If you can save lives and avoid getting sued into oblivion at the same time, that's well worth doing.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 29, 0002

I've long thought that the "bustleback" 1980-1985 Cadillac Seville was even goofier-looking than those two, and I've found this '82 in a Denver-area car graveyard to share with you. The fake-wood dash was standard on all Sevilles, but the "Symphony Sound" AM/FM/cassette radio cost $225 extra ($765 in today's frogskins).

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Today's Junkyard Find is one of the very last third-gen Camaros ever built, found in a Denver car graveyard recently. That may even be the very same engine we see here, but Camaros have traditionally received engine swaps early and often and I didn't feel like getting filthy looking for block casting numbers, so we can't know for sure).

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 24, 2023

Last week, a first-model-year Lark sedan showed up at a self-service yard just south of Denver , and I was there to document it in its final parking spot. The firewall tag says it's a 59V Deluxe, which the Standard Catalog describes as being built only for "special order sales, Marshal sales, fleet sales and sales outside the United States."

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 28, 2024

Still, there were four Fiat models available here during the first couple of years of the 1980s, including the mid-engined X1/9. Here's one of those cars, found in a car graveyard near Denver recently. The original engine in this one was a 1.5-liter liter SOHC straight-four, rated at 67 horsepower and 75.9 foot-pounds.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Here's one of those first-year Mazdafied Escorts, found in a Denver-area car graveyard. Though the second-generation North American Escort was a Mazda Protegé under the skin, Ford held onto the good old UK-developed CVH straight-four engine , a crypto-OHC design that displaced 1.9 liters in this application. No, you did not!

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Even by the standards of the far-flung General Motors Empire, the J-Body was found everywhere , from the Vauxhall Cavaliers of Great Britain to the Isuzu Askas of Japan to the Daewoo Esperas of South Korea. Today's Junkyard Find is a sporty Sunbird coupe, found in a yard just south of Denver, Colorado. This engine is a SOHC 2.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2017

Except for the Euro VI standard on heavy duty diesel vehicles, there are no vehicle emission standards to regulate NH 3 worldwide. The researchers outfitted vehicles with sensors to detect ammonia levels and focused on six cities: Philadelphia, Denver and Houston in the United States, and Beijing, Shijiazhuang and Baoding in China.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 1, 2023

Very few American buyers of these cars were willing to operate three pedals by the dawn of the 21st century, but I have managed to find a five-speed-equipped Olds Alero in a Denver self-service car graveyard. Air conditioning and an AM/FM/CD radio were standard equipment on all 2001 Aleros. liter Ecotec four-banger making 140 horses.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The San Pedro Ports Clean Air Action Plan will start imposing a container rate, scheduled to start next year, on containers that are hauled by trucks that do not meet stricter emission standards. One of the fastest growing companies in Denver, GFL Environmental, Colorado has inked a 10-year station upgrade and maintenance agreement.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 28, 2023

Chrysler managed the feat for the 1949 model year; we admired a Plymouth Special Deluxe sedan from that year in a Colorado car graveyard last summer, and today we're going to take a look at an example of one of the last of the stopgap postwar Chrysler products : this '48 Dodge in a yard just south of Denver. liter) version with 95 horses.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

With the premiere of pre-production models of the Mercedes-Benz GLC F-CELL, Daimler also presented its latest generation fuel cell technology: 30% smaller, 40% more power and with a size that now fits into the engine compartment of Mercedes-Benz passenger vehicles. Fuel cells are a very promising technology in this field.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 12, 2023

Finally, in a Denver-area boneyard , I found this battered '93 GXE sedan. The engine is a 2.4-liter We can assume that this is the result of so many years of ex-fleet Altimas being dumped into the market after full depreciation, coupled with a general sense of utter dysfunction in Nissan HQ.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 11, 2024

Today's Junkyard Find is one of those cars, found in a self-service boneyard near Denver, Colorado. After that, imported cars had to be brought into strict compliance with the smallest fine print of federal vehicle standards, something almost no shops could handle. After years of intensive Mercedes-Benz-backed lobbying, H.R.2628

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 10, 2023

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. about five years later). Another was the debut of the Ford Falcon as a 1960 model.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 16, 2024

engine (optional in the Aries and Reliant through 1985) was gone, replaced by a 2.5-liter The air conditioning was $757 ($2,121 today), but at least the AM/FM stereo radio was standard equipment in the Aries LE and SE. 1986 was the first model year in which every Aries and Reliant got electronic fuel injection. liter Chrysler.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 16, 2023

417,046 miles is about the same as traveling 16-¾ times around Earth (using a great circle route, of course), and that distance is impressive even by Mercedes-Benz diesel standards. Remember that 1985 W123 with 411,448 miles we saw in a Denver car graveyard a few years back? That car has been pushed down to 16th in the MMJO list.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Immobilizers : Immobilizers are electronic devices that prevent the engine from starting without the correct key or electronic code. They have become standard in most modern vehicles, providing a significant deterrent for thieves. These apps allow you to remotely lock/unlock the vehicle, start the engine, and even track its location.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 24, 2006

Plug-ins could be recharged by plugging into a standard wall socket, delivering “electric” gallons of gas for about 75 cents a gallon at prevailing electric rates. Everything needed is available: the power trains, the gasoline engines, the computer systems, electric motors and batteries.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 22, 2024

We saw a discarded 1983 AE72 Corolla wagon in California over the summer, and now it's the turn of a sporty TE72 Corolla Liftback that I spotted recently in a Denver-area boneyard. *Ed. The only engine available in the 1980-1982 North American Corolla was the 1.8-liter For 1983, the E70 Corolla got the SOHC 4A-C engine.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Here's one of the first Sportages brought to our shores, found in a yard south of Denver, Colorado. The 1995 Sportage was available in the United States with standard part-time four-wheel-drive; for 1996, Sportage buyers here could choose between front- and four-wheel-drive. The engine is a Mazda DOHC 2.0-liter

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Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Without an engine up front, there is a front trunk/frunk for stashing smaller items. inch horizontal color screens standard on all trim levels, one for the digital instruments and the other for the infotainment system. The Ioniq 5 has standard ABS and power-assisted, ventilated front and rear solid discs.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Lexus engineers added in-cabin-sounds, a high-output eAxle, and paddle shifters to make your morning commute a little more enjoyable. A 14″ standard touchscreen (with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto support) is at the center of an otherwise minimalistic setup. This offer is good until November 4th and is advertised in the Denver area.

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Electric Auto Association

MARCH 4, 2022

The Lucid Air is lauded for efficiency BY Gordon Hrodda, Member of Denver Electric Vehicle Council. It has triple the power density of the best Tesla equivalent and represents a staggering improvement over an internal combustion engine vehicle. Lucid Air power train. (An There is nothing intrinsically expensive about a 163 lb.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 27, 2025

We'll fix that today, with this painfully clean W124 wagon found in a boneyard just south of Denver. That's not quite up to the standards of the 601k-mile W201 or the three W123 oil-burners that beat the 400k mark, but the W124 has earned a legitimate reputation for reliability over the decades. The engine was this DOHC 3.2-liter

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 21, 2022

Today, the people who design prostheses tend to be well-intentioned engineers rather than amputees themselves. Disabled people are still not the arbiters of prosthetic standards; we are still not at the heart of design. Left: John Prieto/The Denver Post/Getty Images; Right: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis/Getty Images.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In Kentucky we have been busy updating all of the robots to the same standard and repairing bits of shipping damage before the Subt Final. University of Colorado, Denver. Q&A: Project Engineer Gene Rush. We have been running them inside, outside, day, night and all of the circumstances that we can come up with. Team MARBLE.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

AUGUST 3, 2009

Georg also enlisted the help of University of Iowa computer programmer/engineer Karen Pease. Note: Recharging from a standard 110 VAC, 12-Amp source would take 27 to 30 hours to replenish the battery pack and significantly slow the progress of the roadtrip. This effort was led by Georg Kuhnke, who lives near Sacramento, California.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 3, 2025

It was like watching a couple of hungry vultures pluck the tastier bits off a dead raccoon, which is exactly what it looked like I was doing when I found a 1941 Plymouth Special Deluxe in the Denver Pick Your Part a while back. The engine is a 1.6-liter The cheapest 1991 new car with a standard airbag! And this one.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Here's one of those cars, found at a family-owned yard just south of Denver. While the B was underpowered and unreliable even by the forgiving standards of the late 1980s, I had great affection for it at the time. The original engine in the '71 MGB (which might even be this one) was a 1.8-liter By the middle 1970s, the MGB's 1.8

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Cars That Think

APRIL 20, 2024

After earning a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from City College of New York in 1960, Kahn had joined Bell Telephone Laboratories , working at its headquarters in Manhattan, where he helped to analyze the overall architecture and performance of the Bell telephone system. Kahn didn’t know much about computers at the time—his Ph.D.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 31, 2025

Ratcliff began his career in 1965 as an electrical engineer at Public Service Indiana , an electric utility based in Indianapolis. There he helped design bulk power systems and developed engineering software. where he was an engineering manager until 1994. He earned a masters degree in engineering in 1983 and a Ph.D.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 15, 2023

Today's Junkyard Find , found in a yard just south of Denver , is a nicely preserved example of the final year of the S110 Silvia , as well as of the Datsun name. Look at all that great standard equipment! This engine was known as the Z22 , so its valve cover was entitled to a bit of Z-Car-referencing labeling.

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