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2025 Lexus UX 300h AWD hybrid earns 42 mpg, starts around $40,000

Baua Electric

liter inline-4 gasoline engine with more powerful electric motors. The front traction motor now pitches in up to 111 hp and 152 lb-ft of torque—more on the latter front than the gasoline engine’s 150 hp and 139 lb-ft—while in all-wheel-drive versions there’s an additional motor for the rear wheels delivering up to 40 lb-ft of torque.

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Review: 2024 Chevy Silverado EV RST arrives for civilians

Baua Electric

2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV Our drive route mixed rural Michigan roads and fast Interstate traffic up to 80 mph. That’s roughly the same as Green Car Reports got in a week-long test for a Ford F-150 Lightning. That distinguishes the Silverado EV from the Ford F-150 Lightning , for which it’s a selling point.

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2023 Rivian R1T Review - Got My Chips Cashed In

The Truth About Cars

It’s probably easiest to assume the Rivian is in between your typical midsize and full-size half-ton truck, so I did a quick comparo between 4WD quad-cab short-bed versions of Ford’s Ranger and F-150 to illustrate. No, this is a pickup for the homeowner who hauls big stuff on occasion but would prefer to do it without gasoline.

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Fact or Fiction: Electric Vehicle Charging in 2022

Blink Charging

Ford has released the all electric F-150 Lightning for those of you who need a workhorse of a vehicle and the Mustang Mach-E for anyone who wants to burn some rubber without burning petrol in the process. . Meanwhile, the Mach-E goes from 0-60 MPH in just 3.5 EV batteries are just as bad for the environment as gasoline.

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Flash Drive: 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning

Clean Fleet Report

Ford says the all-new, all-electric 2022 F-150 Lighting is “the truck of the future.” The first was the 2021 Mustang Mach-E , next was the 2022 E-Transit cargo van, and now the enticing 2022 F-150 Lightning. Ford says 75-percent of F-150 Lightning buyers will be new to the brand, while 80-percent are new to owning an EV.

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An Extreme Real World EV Driving (Charging) Test

Clean Fleet Report

In Utah the posted limit is 80 mph and for many drivers that was only a suggestion. We set the cruise control to 72 mph when on the freeway. A comparable SUV, such as a 2023 Ford Explorer AWD with the turbocharged 4-cylinder engine and an EPA highway rating of 26 miles per gallon, would have used 69 gallons of gasoline.

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Flash Drive: 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV RST

Clean Fleet Report

This temporary blast of electrons pushes the 2+ ton mass 0-60 mph in about 4.5 The price is $96,495, which is about the price of the GMC Hummer, a bit above a comparable Rivian R1T and Ford F-150 Lightning pickups, but below the Tesla CyberTruck Cyberbeast edition. inch driver configurable LCD infotainment screen – 17.0-inch