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No Hybrid Ford Explorer or Lincoln Aviator for the 2024 Model Year

The Truth About Cars

The Explorer excels at towing and off-road work, all while still being a competent commuter car. As a plug-in hybrid, it offered a dozen or so miles of all-electric driving range and a significant boost in power over the trims that don’t include the words “Grand Touring.”

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New diesel Volkswagen Golf GTD heading for the US; first driving impressions

Green Car Congress

In the MQB set, the EA288 four-cylinder covers engine displacements ranging from 1.6 This enables the engine to achieve highly effective compression during cold start and hot running, low NO x and particulate emissions, and sustained strong chamber fill over the full load range. The engine has a compression ratio of 15.8:1.

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Expert panel report finds achieving 1M plug-in vehicles in US by 2015 would require concentrated action to overcome barriers

Green Car Congress

So now finally we have the technology to deliver everything to customers and with things like plugins you don’t have the range anxiety so that does kind of relieve most of the tradeoffs, certainly. early technology adopters and relatively affluent urban consumers interested in a “green” commuter car). Market Drivers.

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top 20 electric car startups around the world

Baua Electric

Here’s a list of 20 electric car startups, along with brief explanations of their products: Tesla (United States): Product: Tesla is a leading electric car manufacturer known for its high-performance electric vehicles, including the Model S, Model 3, Model X, and Model Y. NIO (China): Product: NIO focuses on electric SUVs.

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Reflections on Converting a 914 to an EV

Porsche 914 EV Conversion

The small expense of $150 will extend your range and power greatly. The transmission on the original 914 was bad and rattled the car violently. Most people seem to want want greater range, but are not willing to give up starting torque for it, especially for a Porsche. I purchased the kit as a no-gasoline commuter car solution.

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Rav4 EV

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This car has half the power, substantially more battery capacity, and similar range to the EV1. The BIG advantage of this car (besides the fact that nobody can take it away from us!) This is the car that we take on family trips, and it is also the daily commute car now that the EV1 has been returned to GM.

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MIT Battery Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Electric Cars : Gas 2.0

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Hopefully the funding was from the same place as well… 2 Bill C said on March 13th, 2009 at 1:21 pm I think a few billion should be taken out of the Detroit bailout and give some capital to all of the electric car companies. The tango (commuter cars) says they only need 50 million to become profitable.

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