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Junkyard Find: 1964 Mercury Montclair Four-Door Hardtop Marauder

The Truth About Cars

The big-Mercury universe for 1964 included the top-grade Park Lane , the mid-level Montclair and the might-as-well-be-a-Ford-Galaxie Monterey. Built in Missouri, probably shipped to Colorado by train, then sold new in Greeley, located about 60 miles north of Denver and the site of a famous Utopian community during the late 19th century.

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Can Wearables "Testify" Against Their Owners?

Cars That Think

Two recent court decisions—one a civil case over an allegedly defective anatomical implant, the other a murder in rural Wisconsin—are the latest in a string of decisions confirming wearables data is fair game and can be pivotal in exposing a wrongdoing or exonerating an innocent person. In the Missouri case Bartis v. Biomet, Inc. ,

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EV gateway

Electric Auto Association

My goal at the time was to drive it to work 10 miles away, at the Department of Physics at the University of Missouri. Billed as an “Electric Vehicle Race Day,” the competition featured Garver in his Bug against fellow GEVA chapter member Dandan TheDrivingMan, a local personality and EV advocate.

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EV gateway

Electric Auto Association

My goal at the time was to drive it to work 10 miles away, at the Department of Physics at the University of Missouri. Billed as an “Electric Vehicle Race Day,” the competition featured Garver in his Bug against fellow GEVA chapter member Dandan TheDrivingMan, a local personality and EV advocate.

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Aurora Tourism in Iceland: You Can Seek, but You May Not Find

Baua Electric

Instead, they mostly mean that the lights can be seen farther south than usual: In recent months, they have been visible in Arizona , Missouri and southern England. For $88, I got a seat on the 19-person bus, which left the city’s central bus station at 9:30 p.m. Basically, literally, another universe opens up.”

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Study Claims EVs Will Not Save the Environment, All Cars Are Bad

The Truth About Cars

.& If you live somewhere that recently introduced new traffic cameras, driving fines ( e.g. congestion charging ), lower speed limits, bicycle rental kiosks, or additional bike lanes, there’s a good chance the person making those decisions was influenced by Vision Zero. & Make no mistake.

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Study finds drone-based delivery could reduce GHG emissions and energy use in the transportation sector, if deployed sensibly

Green Car Congress

New research by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Carnegie Mellon University, SRI International and the University of Colorado at Boulder shows that drone-based delivery could reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy use in the transportation sector. An open-access paper on the research appears in Nature Communications.

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