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Les habitués du Vendée Energie Tour connaissent Pascal Houssard qui dirigeait l’organisation de l’événement. Aujourd’hui retraité, l’ancien directeur général adjoint du syndicat de l’énergie départemental a vu évoluer la Renault Zoé. Naissance de la famille Zoé. « Dans le cadre de mes fonctions au SyDEV, que j’ai rejoint en 2010, j’ai pu essayer quasiment tous les véhicules […]
Read MoreColton Herta watching F1 practice highlights inside his IndyCar cockpitPhoto: Marshall Pruett / YouTube As the teams and drivers of the IndyCar Series end their first day of qualifying one hour earlier than expected, let’s take a brief look back at a moment during yesterday’s practice delay. Friday’s 6-hour practice was delayed because race control […]
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The story goes that just before Jaguar debuted the E-Type in 1961, the company asked the British government for an exemption from affixing the mandatory front plate. The government refused. Which is why the debut E-Type had a giant sticker on its hood reading, “9600 HP,” the coupe its own sticker with “77 RW.” The […]
Read MorePhoto: Garraf-2020 / Wikimedia Commons I don’t think I’ve ever seen a single Formula 1 fan outside of Spain that enthusiastically looks forward to the Spanish Grand Prix. Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, the current home of Spain’s world championship round, is not known to put on exciting racing. It also doesn’t help that the venue is […]
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La batterie et ses modules visibles / Image : Skoda La gigantesque usine Skoda de Mlada Boleslav s’est dotée d’une unité de fabrication de batteries dédiées à la plateforme MEB. Lancé récemment, l’atelier doit produire plus de 250 000 unités chaque année. Ces packs équiperont les modèles 100 % électriques du constructeur Tchèque mais également […]
Read MorePhoto: Northeast Auto Imports If there’s one area where vintage rigs beat modern RVs every time, it has to be style. In the past, you could get an epic little Toyota pickup-based camper dripping with character. I found what has to be the coolest Toyota pickup camper to grace this planet. This 1989 Toyota Hilux […]
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Volkswagen vient de démarrer la production du Volkswagen ID.4 à Emden, en Allemagne. Avec Zwickau, il s’agit du second site où le SUV électrique allemand est fabriqué en Europe. Malgré la crise, Volkswagen tient à la lettre son calendrier industriel. Il y a quelques jours, le groupe a débuté la production du ID.4 sur le […]
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A new study blames pollution of all types for 9 million deaths a year globally, with the death toll attributed to dirty air from cars, trucks and industry rising 55% since 2000. That increase is offset by fewer pollution deaths from primitive indoor stoves and water contaminated with human and animal waste, so overall pollution […]
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During the 1950s and 1960s, US military surplus Willys MB and Ford GPW Jeeps were cheap and plentiful here, but what if you wanted your general-purpose quarter-ton military vehicle to have a Rolls-Royce engine, right-hand drive, and a lineage stretching all the way back to the American Bantam BRC 40? What then? It appears that someone […]
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Gif: Ephraim City Police Department / Facebook You probably know why the chicken crossed the road, but why did the bear? To get to the other side, of course. A lucky bear had a brief police escort to get across a rural highway in Utah. Earlier this week, someone contacted local law enforcement after seeing […]
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