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MINI JCW 1TO6 Edition Promises Performance, Not Time-Telling

The Truth About Cars

Despite bearing a name sounding suspiciously like the precise time dinner is served in a strict household (or the latest Oakland A’s score, let’s be honest), this newest Mini is a $45k invitation to go-kart fun. Acceleration to 60 mph is pegged at around six seconds. As a refresher, there’s a turbocharged 2.0-liter

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Tesla Cybertruck’s ‘armor glass’ stops break-in attempt caught on sentry mode

Baua Electric

The incident involved Elon Musk asking Tesla Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen to throw a steel ball at the Cybertruck’s back window in an attempt to demonstrate what they called “armor glass”. Now, the automaker markets the Cybertruck’s “armor glass” like this: “Armor glass can resist the impact of a baseball at 70 mph or class 4 hail.

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Solar-powered off-grid EV charging stations offer surprisingly attractive cost advantages

Charged EVs

” Furthermore, the product is currently independently rated for 125 mph wind speeds, and we’ll soon be rated for 150. But here’s the good news: We were in the Caribbean for Irma and Maria, and our products in those storms survived Category 5, 185 mph winds. It’s fantastically robust. This is not theory.

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