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2015 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV takes on 2014 Australasian Safari with Team Mitsubishi Ralliart Australia. Will it hold up? The 2015 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV is entering another grueling global rally race, this time in the outback of Australia. This will likely be the plug-in hybrids toughest challenge yet. This Australian rally entry marks the third international off-road rally outing for an

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The 2014 Lexus LX570 is arguably the most impressive luxury SUV to ever come out of Japan, but like all luxury models it wears the stigma of not really offering any true “utility” – so I spent the week using the LX570 in the same way that I do my half ton truck and the Lexus SUV was beyond impressive

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Can you truly save money purchasing a 2014 Honda Civic over labor day weekend? It depends, let’s take a look. Honda’s national “Summer Sales Event” continues through the end of Labor Day weekend, Cool! but what about dealer incentives? Torque News decided to make a phone call or two to our favorite dealerships, check out the local Sunday paper and

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The first rally-prepared 2015 Subaru WRX STI will make its debut with the Subaru Rally Team Canada. We’ve been wondering why we haven’t seen a rally-prepared 2015 Subaru WRX STI this season. Now, the first 2015 WRX STI Rally car will be making its debut with Rally Team Canada at Rally Defi. We thought the 2015 STI would make its

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There’s an old saying in the biofuels industry: “You can make anything from lignin except money.” But now, a new study may pave the way to challenging that adage. The study from the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) demonstrates a concept that provides opportunities for the successful conversion of lignin into a variety of renewable fuels, chemicals, and

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Two scientists at the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory have been included in Thomson Reuters’ Highly Cited Research list for the thousands of citations of their work by fellow researchers over the past decade.The Highly Cited Researcher list represents some of the world’s leading scientific minds. Researchers earned the distinction by writing the greatest numbers of reports officially designated

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Here at RMI we love seeing electricity generated by the sun. And while it’s great to see large homes owned by the likes of Woody Harrelson and Will Ferrell being solar-powered, rooftop solar should be accessible to people across the socio-economic spectrum of the U.S., not just the one percent. But putting solar on all of these different roofs is

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Some Chinese Tesla Model S owners are taking a big road trip using China’s still-nascent charging network. Actually, they will be installing charging stations along the way. This article about it is in Chinese if you happen to read Chinese. Hopeless with Chinese, I stuck it into Google Translate. Unfortunately, that doesn’t make the read much easier. As an example,

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The auto industry has begun to cannibalize old car parts for new clean tech purposes, and according to the latest news from the Energy Department it looks like old tires can be gobbled up, digested, and spit out for use in lithium-ion batteries. The new technology could help solve a looming crisis in the lithium-ion battery market as rising demand

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Public transportation represents one of the greatest opportunities to get costs and carbon emissions with hybrid and electric vehicles. In London, Business Green reports that the city has begun trials of four fast-charging wireless hybrid buses. The Alexander Dennis Enviro400H uses a diesel-electric drivetrain coupled with wireless inductive charging that enables the bus to operate in mostly in all-electric mode.

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