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Junkyard Find: Gray-Market 1981 Mercedes-Benz 380 SEL

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Of all the European-market new cars that flooded into the United States during the wild gray-market years of the early and middle 1980s , the Mercedes-Benz W126 S-Class appears to have been the most popular. Today's Junkyard Find is one of those cars, found in a self-service boneyard near Denver, Colorado. This car has one.

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Junkyard Find: 2004 Mitsubishi Diamante LS

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When the second-generation Diamante appeared here as a 1997 model, all production took place in Australia. It appears that its final owner left it parked with missing or expired registration in an apartment parking lot or on the street in an HOA-oppressed neighborhood and the car got red-tagged and towed. Was it a runner? Are you in?

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Azure Dynamics Reports Sales of 16 More Balance Hybrid Electric Vans and Buses

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Azure Dynamics Corporation, which partners with Ford commercial truck dealerships across North America to market its hybrid technology to fleet operators, reports sales of 16 additional Balance Hybrid Electric vans and buses. 2 buses to the City of Littleton, Colorado through Intermountain Coach in Colorado Springs.

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Pall Awarded Contract by NREL for Filtration and Separation Processes for Biomass-Based Hydrocarbon Fuels; Part of the National Advanced Biofuels Consortium Initiative

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The company will be an engineering partner on each of six processes for biofuel production being evaluated under the program: fermentation, catalytic conversion, catalytic fast pyrolysis, hydropyrolysis, hydrothermal liquefaction, and a low-cost, one-step syngas-to-distillates process. Tags: Bio-hydrocarbons Fuels Infrastructure.

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ARRA Funding for Plug Power and Customers Will Result in Deployment of More Than 304 Fuel Cell Drive Units for Lift Trucks

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has received more than $6 million in awards from the United States Department of Energy (DOE) for fuel cell market transformation programs. Successful completion of these projects will strengthen the product portfolios for Plug Power’s GenDrive and GenSys products. Tags: Brief. Plug Power Inc. Earlier post.)

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DOE to Award $41.9M in Recovery Funds to Spur Growth of Fuel Cell Markets

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forklifts) that have emerged as key early markets in which fuel cells can compete with conventional power technologies. Additional systems will be used to accelerate the demonstration of stationary fuel cells for combined heat and power in the larger residential and commercial markets. Tags: Fuel Cells Hydrogen. Plug Power, Inc.

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PetroAlgae to Partner with IndianOil Company on Algae-Based Fuels

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(PA) ( earlier post ) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enter into an agreement to license its proprietary micro-crop technology to IndianOil Corporation Limited (IOCL) for the future commercial-scale production of biodiesel from algae. PetroAlgae is focused on increasing the productivity of micro-crops—e.g.,

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