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Aurora releases Aurora Driver Beta 2.0

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Aurora’s Common Core of Technology enables the intelligence and learnings from its trucks to easily adapt to its minivans. This lane is the middle leg between Atlanta to Los Angeles, one of the busiest commercial thoroughfares in the US. These updates are shared across Aurora’s fleet of trucks and minivans.

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First Look: 2025 Volkswagen ID. Buzz Three-Row For America

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Buzz has been available in other countries, we in America are in need of something a bit more substantial, so a proper three-row minivan is what will be offered here. I’ll admit that I’m a bit geeked to see a new minivan in any format instead of yet another crossover. An EV minivan is an interesting proposition.

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Tesla Model S 60, LAPD BMW i3, 2017 Chrysler Pacifica driven: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Today, Tesla adds two new 60-kilowatt-hour Model S variants, the Los Angeles Police Department purchases 100 BMW i3 electric cars, and we drive the 2017 Chrysler Pacifica minivan. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Nobody Knows if the BMW M5 Touring is Coming to America

The Truth About Cars

Some also noted that a camouflaged M5 Touring prototype had previously been spotted testing the roads in Los Angeles. Wagons haven’t been fashionable in North America since they were supplanted by the minivan in the 1980s. The likely scenario is that the design boss simply spoke out of turn.

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Navigant forecasts annual plug-in electric vehicle sales in N America to exceed 1.1M by 2024

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Navigant expects metro areas in California to show the largest PEV population growth, as the Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, and San Diego areas are all within the top 10 metro markets for PEV sales. Other ZEV Program participating states are expected to see similar growth.

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Chrysler Airflow identify, design, gained’t elevate over to manufacturing EV

Baua Electric

Feuell advised the copy that the revised design carried out neatly in buyer clinics held in Los Angeles previous this while, including that the manufacturing crossover keeps one of the idea’s aesthetics, however with a extra fashionable total design.

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2010 Toyota Prius Plug-In Arrives Early Next Year, For Fleets Only

Green Car Reports

While Toyota's press conference today at the Los Angeles Auto Show covered the new 2011 Toyota Sienna minivan, a very special Prius hybrid on the show floor signaled the company's first tentative step into the world of plug-in vehicles. Toyota will deliver the first of 150 Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrids early next year.

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