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Review: Mazda MX-30 EV masquerades as an exotic, misses what matters

Green Car Reports

It embodies a unique package not shared with any gasoline model and its design details transcend its sub-$40,000 price tag. For the most part, these were electric conversions of small cars—the Fiat 500. The MX-30 EV is a confusing one.

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Mazda unveils new CX-5 crossover; diesel engine version coming to NA in 2H 2017

Green Car Congress

Mazda Motor Corporation unveiled the all-new Mazda CX-5 crossover SUV. gasoline, and SKYACTIV-D 2.2 Mazda announced it will offer the SKYACTIV-D diesel in North America from the second half of 2017. The global powertrain lineup comprises the SKYACTIV-G 2.0 diesel engines. Further evolved i-ACTIVSENSE.

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Mazda to offer electric car in 2019, maybe with range extender?

Green Car Reports

Mazda may become the next automaker to commit to building an electric car, possibly one with a range-extending gasoline engine. That's the gist of numerous of conversations between journalists and Mazda executives at the recent Los Angeles Auto Show.

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Toyota 3-row EVs, Tesla price cuts, electric G-wagen, airless tires: The Week in Reverse

Baua Electric

made electric SUV —in Princeton, Indiana, starting in 2026. That complements the other Toyota 3-row electric SUV set to be made in Kentucky in 2025. And Mazda has applied its design flair to an EZ-6 electric sedan that incorporates tech from China’s Changan Automobile. Toyota confirmed a second 3-row U.S.-made

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Tesla Fun For THINK Prices? The EV Mazda Miata Conversion

All Cars Electric

If we said you could own an electric car that offered four-fifths the fun of a 2012 Tesla Roadster 2.5 for less than a fifth the price, you might think we'd been illicitly inhaling gasoline fumes on the side.

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Report from Victoria EV Trial reinforces importance of source of electricity and EV efficiency in reducing greenhouse gas emissions

Green Car Congress

Interrelationship between EV energy economy (y-axis) and and the electricity grid emissions intensity (x-axis) in determining full fuel cycle greenhouse gas emissions. A conventional Mazda 3 would sit around midway of the middle color band at 154 gCO 2 e/km. Source: “Environmental Impacts”. Click to enlarge. for sensitivity testing.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Shifted earlier focus to all-electric Focus in 2011 with Magna. Mazda Ford Partner was reported to be developing Series PHEV based on Mazda 5 MPV platform.

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