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Junkyard Find: 1975 Volkswagen Rabbit 4-Door

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The closest I'd come was a '77 two-door in Denver , but then I hit pay dirt in a Northern California yard last week. The factory idiot lights must have been insufficient for one of this car's early owners, because these aftermarket gauges have been installed. Behold the November 1974 date of manufacture on the build sticker!

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Junkyard Find: 1986 Subaru BRAT GL

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Today's Junkyard Find is a second-generation BRAT, found in a self-service yard between Denver and Cheyenne. In order to evade the 25 percent Chicken Tax on imported light trucks, Subaru installed carpeting and jump seats in the beds of 1978-1985 BRATs sold here. This made it a sales hit in snowy, mountainous Colorado.

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Hydraulic Hybrid Systems and EMI Partner to Target Fleet Retrofit Market; First Retrofit Underway

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earlier post ), is partnering with Equipment Maintenance Innovators (EMI-Global) to distribute HHS hydraulic hybrid retrofit systems for light- and medium-duty commercial fleet vehicles. HHS’s upfit solution is a high-efficiency, light-weight parallel hydraulic hybrid propulsion system inserted within the driveline of a vehicle.

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Small modular reactor company Gen4 Energy will not pursue DOE SMR Licensing funding

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Gen4 Energy, based in Denver, Colorado, was founded in 2007, and is working in collaboration with Los Alamos National Laboratory, under the DOE Technology Transfer program, to develop an advanced design nuclear reactor referred to as the Gen4 Module (G4M). Earlier post.).

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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The largest PV installation in Georgia. Install photovoltaic capacity to generate “green” hydrogen: Install multiple PV modules at its Central Maintenance Facility in Hayward. An additional manual charging station would be installed at Operations Base. Connecticut Department of Transportation, Connecticut: $7,000,000.

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2018 VW Tiguan and new 2.0 TSI B-cycle engine gives VW a strong offering in compact SUV segment

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Based on our half-day of driving the new Tiguan in the foothills of Denver, the automaker has succeeded on the quality front. This technology stops the engine during idle when the brake pedal is held (such as when waiting at a red light). A Start/Stop system is standard for all Tiguan trims.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

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2006 (Denver CO) Veridian Corp. Contact contact@hevt.com Pictures: small hi-res Michael Granoff, 2006 Prius, by Hymotion, from DC Toyota in Gaithersburg, MD, August, 2008, (Tenafly, NJ), mike@maniv.com Chris Cox, 2008 Prius, L5 by a123systems/Hymotion installed at Westboro Toyota Westboro MA, August 26, 2008 (Rockingham County, NH).

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