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2024 Toyota bZ4X AWD review: Why driving Toyota’s first electric car on dirt is like chucking a Giraffe in a pool … Really

EV Central

The Model Y will travel further, though, claiming 533km between charges, compared to the Toyota’s 411km. While its set up for DC fast charging, it’s limited to 150kW. The cheaper FWD model has everything you actually need – unless you’re the type to push a giraffe into a pool. SCORE: 3.7/5

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Belfer Center report calls for policymakers to begin taking steps to change policies for funding US transportation infrastructure

Green Car Congress

users pay for the construction and maintenance of roads via a federal fuel tax. The demand for new roads and the cost of expanding and maintaining the transportation system have increased with population and economic growth. User Charges Based on Fuel Consumption (Gasoline and Carbon Taxes). States use similar mechanisms.

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Ride1Up 700 series review: A classy Class-3 e-bike that doesn’t break the bank

Green Authority

Much to the rider’s benefit, this bike includes many accessories that would typically come at an additional cost with other brands, such as a fender, front headlight, and rear rack. If this is your first e-bike or you have never done any hands-on bicycle maintenance before, prepare for a learning curve.

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WattEV aims to operate 12,000 electric trucks-as-a-service and a charging network to support them by 2030

Charged EVs

Now that phase is over, and companies are starting to place substantial orders, but they’re running into another hurdle—charging infrastructure needs to be built out, and managing it is a complex affair. These megawatt charging sites will be open to all fleet operators. These megawatt charging sites will be open to all fleet operators.

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Tesla Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript: April 23, 2024

Teslarati

million vehicles, and we’re seeing about half of people use it so far. For a while there, we were training-constrained in our progress, and we are, at this point, no longer training-constrained, and so we’re making rapid progress. We’re making sure that we’re being efficient as possible in our training.

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We visited the OLA Future Factory: Electric Scooter Manufacturing

Plug In India

It was one of the first batches; has not given him significant maintenance issues from the time it was purchased. I asked her about start-ups that she has liked, She talked of Bolt, which is setting up charging stations for two wheelers using 15 A plug points. 35 to 40% of the vehicle cost is battery. She covers startups.

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Opel to launch 3 new engine families, 13 new engines by 2016

Green Car Congress

The valve train is operated by low-friction hydraulic roller finger followers and driven by a timing chain with a maintenance-free hydraulic tensioner. Key to the engine’s performance is a high-pressure, common-rail fuel system allied to closed-loop combustion control and strong intake charging from a variable geometry turbocharger (VGT).

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