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Flash Drive: 2023 VinFast VF 8

Clean Fleet Report

So driving around town, stuck in stop-and-go rush hour freeway traffic or coasting down hills will recharge the battery. Designed by Pininfarina VinFast VF 8 gave the designers at the famed Pininfarina studio a blank sheet. Because of this we don’t address issues such as long-term reliability or total cost of ownership.

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The Reality of Fast Charging for Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

If we wanted to recharge this from 110V domestic service we would need to pull 10,800,000/110 = 96,000 amps. A vehicle with a 200 mile range like the Tesla Roadster would easily be able to do the trip with one recharge. The cost of putting these on major freeways would be very high but the technology already exists.