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Bosch Powers the Automotive Sector Toward an Electrified Future

Cars That Think

Electric cars are an important focus of Robert Bosch — another leading automotive company founded in Stuttgart. Today, Bosch supplies electric powertrains, systems, and components to automakers worldwide. The Emerging Era of the Electric Automobile. Anatomy of an Electric Drivetrain. Drivers, start your engines!”

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More details about California’s proposal requiring bidirectional charging capabilities for all EVs

Charged EVs

Going bi adds several nifty new benefits to driving electric. It turns an EV into a mobile battery that can be used to provide backup power to a home or business, and to provide services to the electrical grid, generating revenue for the vehicle owner and potentially offsetting a significant part of the purchase price of the vehicle.

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Road Test: 2022 Kia EV6

Clean Fleet Report

For 2022, Kia introduced the EV6, a second generation EV crossover that is built on the Hyundai/Kia/Genesis Electric-Global-Modular Platform (E-GMP). It’s not the fastest EV on the market today, but it’s no slouch. The top speed of 117 mph for the AWD version is close to the performance BMW i4 M50 we recently tested.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) It is much more than that.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles by Darren Murph , posted Apr 19th 2009 at 4:24PM Just hours after General Motors put forth a proposal for a standardized plug for electric vehicles , in flies this. Were still using the same style electrical plug 70 years later.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Currently, there are some industrial facilities that use battery swapping to replenish the energy stores of electric forklifts. The whole operation could take less than five minutes, pretty much the same amount of time many people spend filling their gas tanks at stations today.