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Corby answers the $456,000 question: Is the luxury-soaked Bentley Flying Spur the world’s most pointless plug-in hybrid?

EV Central

I don’t know about you, but when I picture climate warriors – the kind who’ll chain themselves to things, get arrested, become Senators and then realise that changing the system is about as effective as attempting to save polar bears by sleeping naked on ice – I don’t see them driving Bentleys that cost $456,000.

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2025 Cadillac Optiq Debuts As Compact Luxury Electric For The Whole World

The Truth About Cars

Cadillac has always defined American luxury, and Optiq is an example of how our bold, innovative spirit is propelling us into the EV future,” stated John Roth, vice president, Global Cadillac. Digging a little deeper, we can see the 240-volt solution will still take hours to fully recharge the vehicle.

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2025-2035: Rewriting The Automotive History

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A hybrid vehicle runs on gasoline plus a little amount of electricity; the battery powers the car for a few miles and then recharges as it slows down or descends. Bentley is perhaps the least probable contender for early electrification on this list, but they are all in. “The future of Bentley will be totally electric.

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Ferrari’s Plug-in Hybrid One-Ups the Combustion Engine

Cars That Think

Spinning at up to 25,000 rpm, two permanent-magnet motors independently power the front wheels, or regenerate energy from braking to recharge the batteries. Ferrari Select performance mode and the V-8 will fire up to recharge a depleted battery on the fly. The 296 GTB will become the first V-6 powered road car to wear a Ferrari badge.

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Preview: 2025 Audi Q6 E-Tron casts a potent EV shadow

Baua Electric

Audi still sells some good-to-great gas-powered SUVs, but the EV companions like this Q6 E-Tron are the ones that will catapult it into the future, powerfully. It does sport a vastly more powerful computing structure, which leaves ample room for OTA updates as well as future V2X uses.

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3 Scenarios That Would Make An EV Ineligible For the Federal EV Tax Credit

EV Adoption

Because of the multiple and nuanced variables included in the House bill legislation, you need to have deep knowledge on everything from the price of the EV, where it is assembled, whether it is assembled in a union factory, battery size, and where the battery cells are made to determine what the future tax credit amount might actually be.

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Researchers Demonstrate Liquid-Tin Anode SOFC Operating on Biodiesel

Green Car Congress

Results support future efforts in developing an efficient balance-of-plant system for demonstrating long-term (>1000 h) power generation from biodiesel using the LTA-SOFC design. In a separate reaction, the tin is “recharged” by the fuel (carbon, plastic, JP-8, biodiesel). Bentley, J.; Bentley, J. McPhee et al.

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