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General Electric has reached an agreement with Purdue University to place up to 10 of its new electric vehicle (EV) charging stations on campus beginning by the end of year. Designed to recharge electric-powered vehicles quickly and easily, the GE EV...

The first vehicle I ever owned was the old cop car from my small town in Central Illinois, spray-painted solid navy and stripped of its lights to remove any confusion between future drivers (like me) and the real 5-0. This was 1997, and the make and...

It hasn’t been an easy couple of years for Chrysler-Jeep-Dodge, as any Portage used Jeep Wrangler dealer will tell you, but due to a serious a commitment to fixing the brand and crawling out of the depths of recession we’re really starting to see...

In Portage, used cars get into accidents on a fairly regular basis. It’s not that people are trying to drive their vehicles around town like bumper cars; it’s just that accidents do occasionally happen. If they didn’t, we wouldn’t have to pay...

Back when I was too young to understand that the Adam West Batman series was the cheesiest thing ever to be aired on television, I thought it was one of the coolest shows I’d ever seen. Batman always had a way of finding the bad guy and executing a...

As part of our ongoing commitment to bringing you all the good stories about the people, organizations, and businesses in town, we will be producing a series of Good Stuff guides about services, products, dining, shopping, seasonal things we do like...

Inside INdiana Business relays the story of one of Indiana’s fine educational institutions as its students work toward the ever-elusive game changer in the world of sustainable driving. Kudos to Rose-Hulman, and good luck in the competition:...

Purdue University mechanical engineering students have designed and built a multipurpose vehicle made primarily from wood and will travel to Africa this month to help officials there set up a manufacturing facility for the trucks, which could help to...

A friend -- Mike Paunovich -- recently mentioned to me something that I can't seem to get out of my mind. Maybe writing about will do it. He was talking about government efficiency, and ways state government could, and should, save money. One of his...

The cool air is sweeping in. The days are getting shorter and shorter. My wardrobe has met the addition of the in between jacket. Not the heavy winter coat for the dead of winter; but a jacket with some substantial weight to it, to keep some body...