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Monthly changes in key transportation indexes

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They are adjusted for both population and 2020 being a leap year (all but price of gasoline) and for inflation (price of gasoline). Sales of cars and light trucks. Price of gasoline. Sources of the underlying data: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (sales of cars and light trucks). Month-year.

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Junkyard Find: 1964 Mercury Montclair Four-Door Hardtop Marauder

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The door tag tells us that this car was assembled in St. Louis on November 7, 1963. The DSO code of 51 shows that it was sold out of the Denver sales office. The price is medium, the action Maximum. If it had been in California and thus near a major port, such a happy ending for it might have happened.

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3-Year Cruise Passengers Seek Fraud Charges Over Cancellation

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Mr. Petterson, who was in charge of sales and marketing at the time, said he did not feel comfortable collecting large sums of money when the company did not have a U.S. One of the biggest draws, they said, was the price, which for many would have been less expensive than living in a city for three years.

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Charging Station Reliability is Crucial as EVs Gain Speed

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Electric vehicle (EV) production and sales are surging forward, and consumers are rapidly embracing the change. Deloitte forecasts global electric vehicle sales will jump from 2.5 The price for electric vehicles is the other major factor. Technological progress is continually driving down the prices of EVs.

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GM workaround for transport snags: Broker pickup from the manufacturing unit

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Sellers discovered that the method incessantly compelled them to pay one of the vital incremental prices out of patch. The automaker stated it has now not raised transport charges to move on prices to shoppers. ” That, he added, is “100 percent resulting in more sales, not just for us, but for every dealer.”

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Berkeley study finds clean vehicle rebates have predominantly benefited wealthy, white Californians

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Researchers Dana Rubin and Evelyne St-Louis, two recent graduates of the University of California, Berkeley’s master’s program in city and regional planning, analyzed 98,901 rebates issued to Californians buying or leasing low-emission vehicles from the inception of the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project in 2010 through March 2015.

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The Tailwinds Behind Massive Growth of EV Charging

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Even as passenger car sales have stalled out , EV sales surged by 40% in 2019 and stayed consistent in 2020 despite the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic turndown. Louis and Boston to Florida and Illinois. The electric vehicle industry is officially supercharged. Already, the U.S.