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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

At these prices, people are buying the "environmental feature" -- they want to be among the first owners of the worlds cleanest extended-range vehicles. Today youd do it to be one of the first to drive the worlds cleanest extended range vehicle; in the future, youll do it because its an obvious and affordable win!

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Are You Plugged In?

Revenge of the Electric Car

Warren Buffett is an investor in China’s BYD, which is making a compact fully electric vehicle to be sold in China later this year. Warren Buffett is an investor in China’s BYD, which is making a compact fully electric vehicle to be sold in China later this year. Google Inc. Fisker Automotive. Tesla Motor.

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Coulomb Gets Charged Up

Revenge of the Electric Car

Coulomb’s logo, apt but dull, reimagines a gas pump as a standard three-prong electrical socket. Better Place, orchestrating its efforts with French carmaker Renault, will essentially rent out switchable batteries to extend range. Its dream is to be a ubiquitous part of the scenery.

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2024 Polestar 2 RWD: why the cheaper entry level beats the dual motor AWD

EV Central

Its 655km WLTP range (in Long Range guise) is over 10 per cent above the equivalent Polestar 2 AWD, and its figure bests everything in this price bracket – Telsa Model 3 Long Range (629km) and Hyundai Ioniq 6 RWD Extended Range (614km) included. Range anxiety? Properly banished.

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