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How Winter Tires Enhance Safety in Snow and Ice

The Truth About Cars

The FX11 has specialized lateral grooves to channel water and slush away from the tires footprint for enhanced performance. Tread blocks on a winter tire need to be designed with one eye on grip and another on the evacuation of water or slush. Which is a great segue into the importance of mechanical features on a winter tire.

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How Three-Season Tires Perform in Diverse Weather Conditions

The Truth About Cars

Generally, tread patterns on three-season tires are smooth and straight, traits which are ideal for repelling water whilst driving in the rain and gripping the road when temperatures have us all sweatin’ to the oldies.

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2024 Hyundai Kona N-Line Review - A Solid Cup

The Truth About Cars

But, mixed with a bit of almond milk (my lactose intolerance seems to be aggravated by hot bean water) and I’ve an acceptable cuppa joe that gets me going each morning. I kinda dig the full-width front lightbar - someone in Hyundai’s design department truly loved the Mercury Sable, I’m sure, and adapted their work to the modern LED age.

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Taking the Measure of the Earthquake That Destroyed Tokyo

Cars That Think

The violent vertical thrusts of the quake ruptured gas lines and water mains. Palmieri’s seismograph consisted of U-shaped tubes filled with mercury. When the ground shook, the mercury would close an electrical circuit and stop an attached clock. Great Kanto Earthquake Memorial Museum The estimated 7.9-magnitude

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Canada and Alberta introduce joint plan for improved environmental monitoring in the oil sands

Green Car Congress

The program is designed to provide an improved understanding of the long-term cumulative effects of oil sands development. The monitoring of the snowpack and acid sensitive lakes is designed to assess the linkages between atmospheric deposition and impacts on water quality. Water quantity/quality. Wildlife toxicology.

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Ford Increasing Use of Renewable and Recyclable Materials in Vehicles

Green Car Congress

Ford Mustang, F-150, Focus, Flex, Escape, Expedition and Econoline as well as Mercury Mariner, Lincoln MKS and Navigator also use the sustainable material. The 2 million Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles on the road today with bio-foam seats equates to a reduction in petroleum oil usage of approximately 1.5 million pounds.

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E-Waste is a Cybersecurity Problem, Too

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Eventually the linings [of devices] break, and when they're rained upon, the very toxic materials [they contain] — mercury, lead, arsenic, beryllium, cadmium — come out. If they get back into the land and water, it has very negative effects on the health of our vegetation, our animals, and our people.

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