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The 2025 Lincoln Aviator Picks Up a New Face and More Tech

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Lincoln equips a twin-turbo V6 but dropped the hybrid model for 2025. The order books are open now, and the Aviator will go on sale in the summer. The 2025 Aviator picks up new available features, including BlueCruise and updated styling elements that give it a more modern look. Images: Lincoln] Become a& TTAC insider.

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Speaker’s Corner: Yet More Tacoma Teasers

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This time around, we learn of a neat option ripped straight from the Book of Wrangler. Speaking to the latter, expect a choice of hybrid and non-hybrid four-cylinder guts, operating under the i-Force and i-Force Max banners which are found on big-bro Tundra (though that truck gets six cylinders, of course).

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Day 1: My first electric vehicle experience

EV Driver

We invited Eleanor Rumbold to write a guest blog post for us as she recently had her very first experience of electric vehicle driving and charging , and her story raises some interesting points that are probably quite common amongst newbies to the EV world! Is a hybrid the answer? So, over to Eleanor. E-Car Club. Renault Zoe.

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2024 Hyundai Santa Fe – Heading in a New Direction

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Around that same time, I was booking flights to fly to Santa Fe, New Mexico, to see the completely transformed Santa Fe in person. Hybrid models get 41.5 The gasser will weigh about 4,750 pounds and the hybrid will weigh about 4,900 pounds. liter turbocharged four-cylinder gasser and a hybrid that pairs a 1.6-liter

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BMW’s 2021 luxury sedan, the 745e PHEV, comes with 16 pure-electric miles

Current EV

By John Coulter, CURRENT EV CMO To attract new customers, BMW has been offering plug-in hybrid versions of all of its models. They added an integrated electric motor to the 745’s 6-cylinder combustion engine a year ago, creating the 745e xDrive Plug-In Hybrid. The hybrid achieves 0 to 60mph in 4.9 Top speed is 130mph.

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Porsche Casts Doubt Upon Combustion Ban Timeline

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percent in the United States, according to data accumulated from Kelly Blue Book.& & While the EU does tend to lump plug-in hybrids into EV sales tabulations, the region is still outpacing the United States and Canada in terms of both PHEV and BEV volumes. In 2022, the EU estimated that 21.6-percent

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SEC issues cease-and-desist order against split-cycle engine developer Scuderi Group for violations of Securities Act

Green Car Congress

The family-owned company, which was formed in 2002, has, in conjunction with Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), designed, modeled and prototyped a range of implementations of the Scuderi architecture, including naturally aspirated, air hybrid, Millerized and turbocharged versions. Earlier post.).

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