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Test drive: 2024 Hyundai Ioniq 6 overshadows Model 3

Baua Electric

With more range, better functionality, actual style thanks to a better design, and competitive price, the Hyundai Ioniq 6 just makes better sense than the Tesla Model 3. The Hyundai Ioniq 6 just looks cool, and its design is functional to boot. The rear end harkens back to the Infiniti J30 and finishes it off with a ducktail spoiler.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. As utilities shifted to more reliable alternating-current systems, they phased out these costly backup batteries. Electric Car tzero 0-60 3.6

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Green Autos in the Times: Hybrid Hype, Hydrogen Hooey and Electric Dreams

Plugs and Cars

Author Phil Patton derides the design of anything "green" that actually hit the market, and suggests beauty in drawing board designs that will never come to showroom. The meme of the ugly green car gets its own article ( Once Frumpy, Green Cars Start Showing Some Flash ). Chris Paine ( Who Killed the Electric Car? )

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

Clean Fleet Report

These European designs are perfectly good EVs, although their limited battery range and high price compared to the gasoline versions are major drawbacks. The pioneering Leaf has served as Nissan’s designated electric model and is now joined by the new Ariya crossover , a larger, more stylish crossover, but similarly a stand-alone new model.

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New EV electric car calendar

EV Central

Alpha Wolf – cool compact American ute looks to the rough stuff with retro-infused design. Ford Mustang Mach-E – Mustang muscle and design themes in an all-electric SUV. Hyundai Kona Electric update – mild 2021 update tweaks the design and adds more tech and features. Expect to see it Down Under in 2023.

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Cheap to run but expensive to buy, they offer theprospect of low or zero carbon emissions, but manufacturers won’t sell themunless motorists want to buy them – and motorists won’t buy unless the priceis right and there are enough places to charge the batteries. Is it becuase US market prefers a "home" product?