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Porsche will build network of 500 fast chargers for its Mission E electric cars

Green Car Reports

Porsche is getting its dealerships on board with selling electric cars, in preparation for its upcoming Mission E electric sedan, by insisting that each of the company's 189 U.S dealerships install fast charger with enough juice to charge the car's big, 300-mile battery to substantially full in just over 20 minutes.

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ChargePoint raises $240 million to expand charging-station network

Green Car Reports

ChargePoint, the largest network of electric car charging stations, announced last Wednesday that it has raised $240 million to become even bigger. The investment comes at a pivotal moment after ChargePoint CEO Pasquale Romano in September announced an ambitious goal to build enough chargers to juice up 2.5

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Fiat unveils 5 new boxy ‘Panda-inspired’ concept cars

Baua Electric

Fiat just unveiled a new set of Panda-inspired concept cars at the Geneva Motor Show, including a new city car and a pickup truck. The first of the new concepts is a city car (shown above) that is a bit larger than the Panda and available in both ICE and BEV versions – an idea that has been brewing for a while.

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Stuff We Use: Power Inverters

The Truth About Cars

After all, if we’re giving you the truth about cars, we ought to give you the truth about car accessories. Power inverters convert energy from a car's battery from DC to AC, so that one can safely use AC-powered equipment in a vehicle. Power inverters literally come in all shapes and sizes.

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Ford Revises Dealer EV Requirements

The Truth About Cars

As well, the requirement of building a burly Level 3 DC fast charger sometime before 2026 has been removed from the agreement altogether.& Dealers apparently argued that slow Level 2 chargers were more than sufficient to keep new EVs full of juice for test drives.& Images: Ford] Become a& TTAC& insider.

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Ford Performance Introduces 700hp Kit for F-150

The Truth About Cars

An enormous Whipple Supercharger displacing 3.0L – meaning the part customers are& adding & to their V8 technically has more displacement than most cars on European roads – juices the 5.0L Speed freaks intent on building a sleeper will smartly and instantly shill these parts on eBay. to 700 horsepower and 590 lb.-ft

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The Grand Tour's "Sand Job," Nothing to See Here, I'm Afraid

The Truth About Cars

The challenge is to create a rally raid car and then sorta-kinda follow the route of the old Paris-Dakar rally, the challenging race that you might think has run from Paris, France to Dakar, Senegal since its inception in 1977. Each of the cars cost around £25,000 ($34,542 USD). Each of the cars cost around £25,000 ($34,542 USD).