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Daimler Trucks NA SuperTruck achieves 115% freight efficiency improvement over 2009 baseline; 50.2% engine BTE

Green Car Congress

To measure freight efficiency, DTNA ran vehicle testing on highway routes in Oregon and Texas; one city route in Portland, Ore.; The Freightliner SuperTruck uses a downsized and downsped 10.7-liter Lightweighting: MSI-ACPT, Maxion Inmagusa, Oregon State University, Strick, Toray. DTNA SuperTruck technology elements. Powertrain.

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DOE to award up to $137M for SuperTruck II, Vehicle Technology Office programs

Green Car Congress

Drive Oregon. Demonstrate plug‐in electric vehicles through public ride and drives for a wide variety of PEVs and short term extended test drives in key markets throughout Oregon and Washington. Plug In America. Develop, build and test a production‐feasible electrically‐actuated dynamic skip fire cylinder deactivation valvetrain.

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First Drive: 2016 Hyundai Sonata PHEV and HEV

Green Car Congress

Hyundai will initially offer the Sonata Plug-in Hybrid in the ZEV states—California, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont—in 2015. Hyundai expects California and Oregon to be the top markets and areas of focus.)

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Greenius Drinks L.A. Times’ Milkshake On Global Warming

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It looks to me to be a combination of being emasculated by eight years of Bush/Cheney as well as the paper’s own decade of internal decline, downsizing and dumbing down. Why is their environmental coverage so lame? I’m just sick of the damage they do us and the disrespect they pay us.