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Report: Honda and Acura to Join Tesla's NACS Standard

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Honda and Acura leaned on General Motors’ Ultium technology to accelerate electric vehicle development, so it’s unsurprising to see the Japanese automakers following their American counterpart’s lead in some areas. & [Image: Acura] Become a& TTAC& insider. & [Image: Acura] Become a& TTAC& insider.

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Series production of next-generation Acura NSX hybrid supercar begins in April at new Performance Manufacturing Center

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Acura’s Performance Manufacturing Center (PMC) will begin series production of the next-generation Acura NSX hybrid supercar ( earlier post ) in late April, with customer deliveries to commence thereafter. Honda and Alotech won the 2015 AFS/Metal Casting Design & Purchasing Casting of the Year Award for the Acura NSX space frame nodes.

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Consumer Reports Says EVs Less Reliable Than Traditional Automobiles

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However, standard hybrids actually outperformed every other group with 26 percent fewer problems than vehicles wholly reliant on gasoline. But it also left your author wondering why standard hybrids weren’t seeing the same number of problems. Plug-in hybrids were even worse with 146 percent more issues.

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Consumer Reports: Tesla and other domestic brands take big steps backwards in reliability rankings

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Making air suspension and AWD standard in the 2017 model has added more complexity and more things that could potentially falter. Chevrolet is down five places to number 23, in part because the redesigned Traverse had “Much-Worse-Than-Average” reliability. Porsche bucks the trend in this group, rising two places to number 11.

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Ford puts the pedal down on performance … but not with electric drive technology right now

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However, unlike today’s hybrid drive Le Mans racers, or the new Acura NSX hybrid supercar, also revealed at NAIAS ( earlier post ), the GT—nor any of the other Ford performance vehicles unveiled at NAIAS—makes no use of electric drive technology. Raptor is 6 inches wider than the standard F-150 for improved stability off-road.

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Update: Top 10 Electric Cars

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It’s a robust list of a variety of models–the majority of which are focused on the hot crossover segment–with total sales of more than 150,000 from six major automaker groups. Volkswagen Group (which includes VW, Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini and Bentley in the U.S.) Nissan Leaf – the Standard Bearer.

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EVs from these brands will soon use the Tesla NACS charge port

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Mazda is the latest automaker to adopt the Tesla-based North American Charging Standard (NACS) for future U.S.-market EVs, but it’s come down to a last few brands that have kept on the other side of the fence and haven’t committed to what’s become a true North American standard. market electric vehicles.