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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?

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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

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General Motors’ luxury arm has just previewed the Cadillac Optic — which looks to be offering a tad more utility than the brand’s larger Lyriq EV. The manufacturer has said that the model comes with an 85-kilowatt-hour battery pack and dual motor all-wheel drive. Images: General Motors] Become a& TTAC insider.

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2023 BMW i7 review: The flagship goes electric

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For that money, though, you do get a whole lot of high-end stuff, pushing the i7 nail-bitingly close to something like a Rolls-Royce or a Bentley in the luxury stakes. The BMW i7 is a pretty potent EV The i7 adopts a twin-motor setup, with an electric motor positioned at each axle. What do you get in the BMW i7?

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2024 Volkswagen Touareg Review

Baua Electric

The regen’ system and engine can replenish the battery pack if you want or you can recharge at up to 7.2kW AC. As part of the launch event I spent plenty of time in this grade, but also had a chance to pilot the other bookend in the model range, the flagship Touareg R plug-in hybrid performance SUV.

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

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liter V-8 generates 780 metric horsepower; another 220 hp comes from the plug-in hybrid’s electric motors. Ferrari As Ferrari’s first plug-in hybrid, the SF90 integrates a trio of electric motors. A third axial-flux motor is sandwiched between the mid-mounted engine and the dual-clutch transmission. The twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter

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

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Motors whirl to life as they whorl out warp-speed forward thrust. I’ve only driven it for very short distances, but I can see the promise in its new architecture, its battery choices, its dual-motor drivetrain, and its high-end suspension. It arrives in the U.S. late in 2024 as a 2025 model. That’s good for a 0-60 mph run in 4.2

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Kia EV6 GT Review: Is this the first great EV performance car?

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But you could pay tens if not hundreds of thousands more for the performance it delivers from its 430kW/740Nm dual electric motors (incidentally, for the performance enthusiasts, those outputs are identical to that of the HSV GTS that used a 6.2-litre That’s four tenths faster than a $514,200 Bentley Bentayga Speed luxury SUV.

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