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Pick me up! Fiat reveals the wild cheap electric ute that will spearhead its reinvention in Australia

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Fiat has ignored this week’s Geneva motor show and instead gone it alone revealing five all-new radical concepts including a battery-powered ute that it hopes will forge a new path to success in markets such as Australia. READ MORE: Driven: Fiat 500e La Prima EV READ MORE: Fiat 100 percent EV by 2030 Fiat Panda Concept City Car.

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Kia Soul EV review: the cheap electric car Australia missed out on

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Build quality’s excellent, and you score LED lights everywhere (boomerang-shaped at rear), leather heated seats, 10.25-inch The Kia Concept EV3 was revealed in October at the brand’s EV Day, and this boxy, miniature EV9-like SUV is a logical replacement for the Soul, likely to debut late in 2024.

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The Toyota FT-Se Concept Probably Isn’t the Next MR2

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The Toyota FT-Se Concept that debuted at the Japan Mobility Show recently probably isn’t going to be the MR2 successor everyone has been hoping it would be. Still, it’s always smart to remain cautious when dealing with concept vehicles. An argument could be made that electrification could be used to help keep the car cheap to operate.

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Cheap, Easy, and Underutilized Online Communication for Nonprofits

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At the presentation of the concept in Germany earlier this year, VW had said the EV would launch on the market in 2013. The concept car’s 30 battery modules—comprising 180 lithium-ion cells—were installed in spaces adapted to the vehicle architecture: in the floor of the trunk (fully usable cargo capacity: 275 liters, 9.7

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ETH Zürich team developing light-duty natural gas-diesel hybrid electric powertrain; 43 g/km CO2

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Researchers at ETH Zürich have developed a light-duty hybrid electric vehicle featuring a dual-fuel natural gas-diesel engine. They stress that their solution may not be cheap, but it is comparatively cost-effective. Consumption measurements of the dual-fuel natural gas-diesel engine as a function of speed and load. Source: Ott et al.

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New process uses localized surface plasmons for room-temperature conversion of CO2 to CO

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Although the researchers demonstrated this method in a small-scale, highly controlled environment with dimensions of just nanometers (billionths of a meter), they have already come up with concepts for scaling up the method and making it practical for real-world applications.

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Mercedes-AMG teases first look at its sporty electric supercar poised to rival Porsche, Lucid

Baua Electric

The concept is based on axial-flux motor tech developed by Mercedes-owned Yasa. Mercedes-AMG electric supercar testing in Sweden (Source: Mercedes-Benz) You can see from the official images from Mercedes that the electric supercar’s design draws from the Vision AMG concept , revealed in 2022. The rear and front lights are covered.

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