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MEB electric catamaran, Porsche-inspired sports car, carbon fiber and range: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

Nissan looks at reducing its manufacturing footprint, and Jaguar Land Rover aims at freeing up more space and weight for an EV range boost. A niche EV company teases its skateboard platform with a Porsche 356 tribute. And a product that’s most definitely not for the masses applies VW’s platform for affordable EVs.

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INFINITI developing all-new electric vehicle platform influenced by Q Inspiration concept

Green Car Congress

We very much had China in mind when designing the Q Inspiration, which shows a very sporty, performance-oriented electric concept, with a much bigger interior space. Prototype 9 blends modern technology and hand-crafted details paying tribute to the forebears of INFINITI. —INFINITI chairman and global president Roland Krueger.

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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

The Truth About Cars

Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. Toyota followed with the Prius a year later, but it took GM until 2006 to introduce its first true gasoline-electric hybrid here.

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2024 BMW iX2, 2024 Subaru WRX TR: Nowadays’s Automobile Information

Baua Electric

A redesigned BMW X2 is coming quickly, and it’s going to come with an electrical model that shall be badged an iX2. BMW has exempt a teaser shot of the electrical X2, even though the automaker hasn’t showed whether or not it’s going to succeed in the U.S. Subaru has a warmer WRX variant coming quickly.

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Remembering Lithium-Ion Battery Pioneer John Goodenough

Cars That Think

Goodenough, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin , authored more than 800 technical papers during his career. It later became the chemistry of choice for early electric cars including the 2008 Tesla Roadster. In 2010 Nissan used it in its Leaf electric car.

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Fantastic 5: 2024 Renault 5 teased in production form ahead of its launch at the Geneva motor show

EV Central

Despite dropping the show car’s cool OLED full-width light bar and lamps there’s three-dimensional stacked LED lamps that pay tribute to the 1972 R5 and a slimline lightbar. When launched, it’s thought the most basic Renault 5 will come with a single 100kW electric motor that will drive the front wheels.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Until then, we can always program the ESS to make what Lotus refers to as "more futuristic sounds for electric vehicles [that] can be created using sampled sounds and generated waveforms." This is especially important for electric and hybrid vehicles which can be difficult to hear at lower speeds due to their drive mechanism.

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