In the last few days, gun enthusiasts have…
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In the last few days, gun enthusiasts have pointed out and asked "If gun control works, what happened in China?".
Well, they survived.
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Why can’t we just build a fence around Westboro…
Why can't we just build a fence around Westboro Baptist Church and keep them in Kansas? These people are just disgraceful.
As the families of 20 children and 6 adults killed in Newtown, Connecticut in the massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary school on Friday, the extremist Westboro Baptist Church plans to picket the scen…
I’m not a huge fan of Anonymous but in this…
I'm not a huge fan of Anonymous but in this case I wish them well
Anonymous renews fight against Westboro Baptist Church for planning Newtown school shooting picket
The Westboro Baptist Church, infamous for its hateful missives and demonstrations at funerals in the United States, has once again been targeted by Anonymous for its newest assault on human…
I'm not a huge fan of Anonymous but in this case I wish them well 2
I'm not a huge fan of Anonymous but in this case I wish them well
Anonymous renews fight against Westboro Baptist Church for planning Newtown school shooting picket
The Westboro Baptist Church, infamous for its hateful missives and demonstrations at funerals in the United States, has once again been targeted by Anonymous for its newest assault on human…
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Why can't we just build a fence around Westboro Baptist Church and keep them in Kansas? These people are just disgraceful.
Outrage as Westboro Baptist plans praise gathering outside Sandy Hook Elementary school to celebrate God ‘executing his judgement’ in horrific shooting rampage that killed 20 children and 6 adults
As the families of 20 children and 6 adults killed in Newtown, Connecticut in the massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary school on Friday, the extremist Westboro Baptist Church plans to picket the scen…
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From Stewart Racing to Jaguar to Red Bull and 3 straight world championships
From Stewart Racing to Jaguar to Red Bull and 3 straight world championships
In 1996, 3-time world champion Sir Jackie Stewart launched his eponymous Formula 1 team in partnership with Ford. Four years later after some limited success Ford took over the team and rebranded it Jaguar. From there it was all downhill until 2004 when the automaker finally had enough and essentially gave it away to Red Bull founder Dietrich Mateschitz.
From that point on, the team was re-built from the ground up by team boss Christian Horner and technical chief Adrian Newey. The result is 3 straight championships for Sebastian Vettel in 2010-12. The video restrospective tells how they got there.
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Ford talks about the real world fuel efficiency of its latest hybrids On Friday, while +Ford Motor Company…
Ford talks about the real world fuel efficiency of its latest hybrids
On Friday, while +Ford Motor Company was showing off its new lineup of Transit and Transit Connect vans, VP of product development Raj Nair took a few minutes to discuss some recent reports on the fuel efficiency of the C-MAX and Fusion hybrids. There have been numerous reports that customers are falling short of the EPA label estimates in real world driving.
For those of us that have been paying attention, it's been pretty clear for many years that hybrid vehicles can exhibit a great deal of variability depending on the driving conditions. Back in late 2010 when I was working at GM and they were launching the Volt, they spoke extensively of the 3 Ts and how they would affect the electric driving ranging.
Those 3 Ts are terrain, temperature and technique. All vehicles get worse mileage in winter for a variety of reasons http://green.autoblog.com/2009/11/12/greenlings-why-does-mileage-drop-in-winter/ but hybrids are particularly sensitive because battery performance is reduced as the temperature drops (or gets too high for that matter).
As the boys from Top Gear demonstrated a few years back when they raced a Prius against an M3, driving aggressively in a hybrid will also degrade efficiency because the engines are tuned to operate best under the light loads typical of the driving cycles used to estimate efficiency.
Nair talked about these factors as well as break-in effects when he spoke to media. He specifically mentioned a 5 mpg improvement as the vehicles go beyond 6,000 miles on the road. Since the C-MAX and Fusion haven't been on sale for very long yet, they will probably get better as time passes. A check of the user submitted numbers on fueleconomy.gov http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=sbs&id=33010&id=33083 already shows the averages climbing from where they were just a couple of weeks ago.
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Ford talks about the real world fuel efficiency of its latest hybrids
On Friday, while +Ford Motor Company was showing off its new lineup of Transit and Transit Connect vans, VP of product development Raj Nair took a few minutes to discuss some recent reports on the fuel efficiency of the C-MAX and Fusion hybrids. There have been numerous reports that customers are falling short of the EPA label estimates in real world driving.
For those of us that have been paying attention, it's been pretty clear for many years that hybrid vehicles can exhibit a great deal of variability depending on the driving conditions. Back in late 2010 when I was working at GM and they were launching the Volt, they spoke extensively of the 3 Ts and how they would affect the electric driving ranging.
Those 3 Ts are terrain, temperature and technique. All vehicles get worse mileage in winter for a variety of reasons http://green.autoblog.com/2009/11/12/greenlings-why-does-mileage-drop-in-winter/ but hybrids are particularly sensitive because battery performance is reduced as the temperature drops (or gets too high for that matter).
As the boys from Top Gear demonstrated a few years back when they raced a Prius against an M3, driving aggressively in a hybrid will also degrade efficiency because the engines are tuned to operate best under the light loads typical of the driving cycles used to estimate efficiency.
Nair talked about these factors as well as break-in effects when he spoke to media. He specifically mentioned a 5 mpg improvement as the vehicles go beyond 6,000 miles on the road. Since the C-MAX and Fusion haven't been on sale for very long yet, they will probably get better as time passes. A check of the user submitted numbers on fueleconomy.gov http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=sbs&id=33010&id=33083 already shows the averages climbing from where they were just a couple of weeks ago.
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Green Car Congress: Ford’s math on hybrid fuel economy; standing by the C-MAX EPA ratings, acknowledging large real-world variance
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The people of Grand Rapids and Michigan as a whole should be proud of Brandon Dillon for standing up …
The people of Grand Rapids and Michigan as a whole should be proud of Brandon Dillon for standing up for democracy even when not one single Republican would.
In this clip, State Rep. Brandon Dillon (D-Grand Rapids) explains his opposition to House Bill 4054,