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Drive Notes: 2024 Alfa Romeo Tonale eAWD

The Truth About Cars

The Tonale is built along its sibling, the Dodge Hornet, in Italy. Unlike the Hornet, the Tonale is available only as a plug-in hybrid, using the same powertrain as the Dodge Hornet R/T. Even on slow charging, you'd be able to juice up overnight. Today we have the 2024 Alfa Romeo Tonale eAWD. This setup mates a 1.3-liter

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Stellantis Patents Fake Engine Vibrations for EVs

The Truth About Cars

When Dodge previewed its Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust for the all-electric Charger Daytona SRT concept (pictured), enthusiasts were divided. But others felt it broke new ground in terms of vehicular sound design and would ensure electric cars could retain some of the magic of combustion vehicles.

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Stuff We Use: Power Inverters

The Truth About Cars

For example, this author was a fan of the product he deployed during ownership of an LX-platform Dodge Charger, a vehicle built in that weird era where USB ports were kinda sorta important but had yet to gain total dominance as a method with which to charge devices since 12V sockets were still ubiquitous.

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Ram Teases Inscrutable Truck

The Truth About Cars

After all, it is unlikely an internal combustion range extender would produce anything remotely like this racket, though we are talking about Ram which is a close cousin to Dodge. Or, and we’re just putting this out there as a Wild Rumour of the Day, perhaps Ram is juicing the TRX to Redeye levels of horsepower. twin-turbo.

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Seven-day test: Living with the Porsche Taycan RWD

EV Central

That said, if that’s your typical daily commute, it’s easy to see how plugging in overnight would give you all the juice you need. More good news today. The Dodge’s colour is better. Even so, a wallbox would be a non-negotiable should I own a Taycan. Tale of the charge in the 2022 Porsche Taycan RWD.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. So while my car is powering the great city during the day how will I have juice to drive home at the end of the day? 2:54 PM Anonymous said.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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