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Volvo Trucks and Bucher collaborate to electrify sewer cleaner trucks

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To meet this demand, Bucher Municipal, a leading supplier of municipal vehicles such as street sweepers, winter maintenance equipment, refuse vehicles, and sewer cleaning trucks, has joined forces with Volvo Trucks to develop an all-electric sewer cleaner built on the Volvo FL Electric truck.

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Used Car of the Day: 2008 Saab 9-5 Aero Sportcombi

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There are 135K miles on this one, which is for sale in Michigan. The seller has all the maintenance records. Recent maintenance includes new brakes, front strut assemblies, valve cover gasket, tie rod ends, and more. It has the Visibility Package, heated front and rear seats, and a moonroof. You can get this Saab for $6,500.

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Used Car of the Day: 2004 BMW 545i

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It's had some recent maintenance done and there is a bit of minor cosmetic damage -- dents and parking marks and that sort of thing. If you're interested in a car like this, it's for sale in New York for $9,900. Click here to see more. Images: Seller] Become a TTAC insider.

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Volkswagen offering subscriptions to ID.3 and ID.4 in Germany

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—Klaus Zellmer, Board Member for Sales and Marketing at Volkswagen. In addition, Volkswagen will be launching its online leasing and sales offerings in Germany toward the end of 2021. The dealer network will be incorporated into the subscription model right from the start, for example, when it comes to maintenance and repairs.

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Delaware adopting California’s ZEV regulations

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The regulations mandate that a certain percentage of the vehicles delivered for sale in a state are ZEV vehicles. Each year, manufacturers must meet a ZEV credit amount that is based on average annual sales. Electric vehicles also tend to have lower maintenance costs than gasoline cars, which also reduces ownership costs.

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New Mexico adopts Clean Cars Rule

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The rule includes a combination of increasingly stringent vehicle emission standards and a requirement that manufacturers deliver for sale an increasing number of zero-emission vehicles, such as battery electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles in New Mexico. —New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) Cabinet Secretary James Kenney.

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Hertz continues to feel EV losses, plans to dump more from its fleet

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Hertz said it incurred a $195 million charge to vehicle depreciation to write down the EVs held for sale. 119 of the $339 was related to EVs held for sale. Additionally, higher-than-expected maintenance costs put pressure on margins. The losses continued in Q1. Tesla inks $4.2B

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