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Hyundai Ioniq 5 wins Cars.com’s Best Electric Vehicle for 2024 award

Teslarati

Its performance is also more than adequate, with an AWD Limited model showing a 0-60 mph time of 4.72 Cars.com also cited the Ioniq 5’s 350 kW DC fast charging capabilities, which are valuable on long road trips. This accomplishment both reflects and further inspires our company’s commitment to electrification.

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2024 Audi Q8 E-tron opinions: Extra length with out all of the gimmicks

Baua Electric

Now we’re talking. Audi claims a length of ‘as much as 330 miles’ for the 55, and DC charging speeds are advanced, too. “It’s certainly up there with the BMW iX, although like all premium German machines of this ilk, there’s still a lurking and spurious emphasis on ‘sportiness.’

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Nissan’s Killer EV App, the Plug-In Car That Puts the Nail in GM’s Coffin

Creative Greenius

Everyone’s all excited that Ford just turned a profit, but they’re doing it with a fleet of uninspired crappy cars that they practically have to give away. You might as well call most of the cars they’re selling “future clunkers.&# When’s your affordable EV that gets 1oo mile range on a quick charge Ford?

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

Clean Fleet Report

note: We’re republishing this article because it’s a good reminder of how technology timelines can slip and yet things are clearly moving forward. Tesla, Volvo, Mercedes (Daimler), BMW, Audi, GM, Ford, Nissan, Toyota and others are now delivering cars with some of these features and developing cars with all of these.

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Road Test: 2023 Maserati Grecale Modena Mild Hybrid

Clean Fleet Report

It was a challenge to not tromp on the accelerator, because this is a Maserati, of course, but in our 327 miles driving through Southern California we had a 100-mile all-freeway run at 65 mph deliver 30.6 With 0-60 mph in 5.3 A Welcoming Interior You’re surrounded by luxury features Luxury and upscale?

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Road Test: 2022 BMW i4 M50

Clean Fleet Report

BMW Finally Puts Its Marker in the EV Race. BMW’s newest EV delivers unique style and world-class performance. BMW has been a pioneer in the EV business for more than a decade with quirky vehicles like the i3 city car and outrageously high-tech and performance-oriented i8 plug-in hybrid. The first BMW EV sedan with an M badge.

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

Green Car Congress

Fritz Henderson, GM’s President and CEO: “ We had a couple of Audi and BMW customers sit in an Equinox and say ‘this vehicle should be priced well above what it is’—Chevrolet should blow people away for what they get for their money. ”. Re-badging is a sensitive topic with the OEMs and their desire to highlight the differences among brands.

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