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Junkyard Find: 1987 Dodge Caravan SE V6

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Discarded examples of the first- generation Chrysler minivans have been much more difficult to find, but I ran across this '87 Caravan in Colorado Springs last week. The K-platform -based Chrysler minivan first appeared as a 1984 model, as the Caravan and Plymouth Voyager. four-cylinder with 150 horses tearing up the front tires.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

Cars That Think

Fuzzy theory is wrong, wrong, and pernicious,” said William Kahan, a highly regarded professor of computer sciences and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. As Zadeh was pretty much entrenched at Columbia, he surprised his colleagues when he packed up in 1959 and moved to the University of California at Berkeley.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. San Jose Mercury News ). Establishing dealer network. Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012. Batteries not ready. Has shown some concept fuel-cell PHEVs.

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