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Can-Am Spyder First Drive: Embracing The Third Wheel

The Truth About Cars

So you can imagine my delight upon being informed that I had been tapped for a driving event that required a license featuring a cycle endorsement. Full Disclosure: Can-Am invited me out to Lake George, NY, to experience the Spyder F3 and RT Limited during the kickoff event for the Road Warrior Foundation’s charity ride to Nixa, Missouri.

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Volkswagen: e-mobility and sustainability; Part 1, the e-Golf and Golf GTE

Green Car Congress

In conjunction with its annual media and investor conference, Volkswagen is staging a two-week (8 - 21 March) e-mobility event at Berlin-Tempelhof. and e-Golf) with other plug-in models following, the event marks a very large and public stake in the ground, in terms of defining the current and future importance of e-mobility for Volkswagen.

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Volkswagen’s first two production battery-electric vehicles debut at Frankfurt

Green Car Congress

When the car is not in use or in the event of a crash, power from the battery is automatically cut off. Interested customers can order the wall box from their dealer. Volkswagen in Germany is also offering electricity provided by hydropower plants in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Power electronics.