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DOE Award Supports Largest Single Deployment of EVs and Infrastructure Yet; Up to 5,000 Nissan LEAF EVs in 5 Regions

Green Car Congress

Scott Becker vice president, Legal and General Counsel, Nissan North America. Projects include: $70 million to Chrysler to develop, validate and deploy 220 plug-in hybrid electric pickups and minivans. Nissan introduced the LEAF on 2 August.

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ORNL researchers quantify the effect of increasing highway speed on fuel economy

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legal light-duty vehicles from 1984 to present. The study includes various sizes of sedans, wagons, and SUVs, as well as pickup trucks, minivans and a few “muscle” and sports cars. It also offers consumer information and advice pertaining to vehicle fuel economy and energy-related issues such as driving tips.

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Toyota-backed U.S. self-driving startup garners $67 million investment

Teslarati

May Mobility says it has technology that’s the equivalent of Level 4 automated driving, which means that the vehicles won’t be required to have a driver at certain points and in regions where it’s designated as legal, according to Society Automotive Engineers (SAE) autonomy designations.

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Junkyard Find: 1995 Toyota Previa LE S/C with 465,234 miles

The Truth About Cars

The Toyota Previa minivan was too small, too weird-looking, too underpowered— in short, too Japanese to ever be a runaway sales hit in North America. However, most American minivan shoppers look harder at horsepower numbers and interior volume than handling prowess. You can identify these Previas by the S/C badges on the hatch.

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This Chinese electric car is almost entirely windows

Baua Electric

In this case, I’ve found what looks like a mini-minivan that took an extra spin or two around the window factory before emerging complete. V6 that my parents’ Pontiac minivan came with, this Alibaba version has a 4,000W electric motor ready to clock in for a union job driving around those snot-nosed kids every day.

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My journey to and on the Mauritanian Iron Ore Train

Plug Me In

Up to halfway through Morocco, I could travel by train, then mainly buses and minivans. My first stop was Terjit, and I took another minivan. It’s legal to ride this train, it’s also free. This is really short considering I had been traveling for more than three years to Australia.

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Wallke X3 Max: Shoving two motors in a full-suspension fat tire e-bike

Baua Electric

I imagine most people will never fold it during normal use, but the ability to make the bike smaller does mean you could conceivably shove it in the back of a minivan or SUV more easily. That presents legal issues if you want to ride this on pubic roads in states that conform to the three-class system, which is most states in the US.

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