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Junkyard Find: 2008 Mercury Sable, Press Loaner Flashback Edition

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The very first press car I ever received was a red 2008 Mercury Sable , so let's take a look at the same kind of car at the end of its 16-year career. But we just saw a Corvair in this series less than two years back , so today you're getting a history lesson about decline-and-fall-era Mercury instead.

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Mercury unveils new, higher power electric outboard motors for e-boats

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Mercury Marine just showed off two new electric outboard motors at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mercury previously unveiled its Avator 7.5e , which was followed by the Avator 20e and 35e. Now these two new models round out the five-model lineup and open new doors for electric boaters. “We

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200 Years Ago, Faraday Invented the Electric Motor

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After Faraday [left] failed to acknowledge his mentor, Humphry Davy [right], in an 1821 paper on the electric motor, Davy accused him of plagiarism. He took a deep glass vessel, secured a magnet upright in it with some wax, and then filled the vessel with mercury until the magnetic pole was just above the surface. He teamed up with.

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Infiniti Details a Quartet of New Vehicles

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Despite – or perhaps because of – headlines musing about the state of Infiniti’s current offerings, the brand is using the Tokyo Motor Show to introduce a raft of new product. That arresting full-width front lighting is being called a “digital piano key” which sounds like something one would find in a modern music school.

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Tesla Giga Berlin’s full approval to be granted in a few days: report

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A close look at one Model Y parked at the Gigafactory’s grounds revealed that it was a dual-motor variant, suggesting that Tesla may be planning on starting its production with dual-motor variants of the all-electric crossover. Tesla Germany’s free default color remains to be white.

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A Brief History of the World’s First Planetarium

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According to the Zeiss Archive, a large sphere held all of the projectors for the fixed stars as well as a “planet cage” that held projectors for the sun, the moon, and the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. The fixed-star sphere was positioned so that it projected outward from the exact center of the dome.

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BrightDrop: GM’s silent push into electric commercial vehicles

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Upcoming electric passenger vehicles and light trucks from GM get most of the attention, but its new commercial EV brand is a quiet and very serious push too. Many US drivers now have a vague idea that General Motors is doing something with electric vehicles. Battery size, motor power and most other details remain unknown.