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NTSB shares concerns about heavy electric vehicles like the Hummer EV

Teslarati

Homendy shared some of her issues with electric vehicles during a speech in Washington to the Transportation Research Board. The NTSB official added that electric vehicles such as the Ford F-150 Lightning and Volvo XC40 Recharge are heavier than their combustion-powered counterparts.

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Proposed Changes to the Federal EV Tax Credit Passed by the House of Representatives

EV Adoption

This may be true, but the focus needs to be on getting older, gas-guzzling trucks and SUVs off the road, not providing a massive discount to the owner of a Ford F-150 Raptor to replace it with a $70,000 Rivian R1T. But a minimum of 150-175 miles of range for BEVs could also make sense. Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) Caps.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

We estimate there are between 125-150 PHEVs worldwide at this time; we hope to get the rest of them on the list! Ford F-150 Pickup Truck, July 2008 (Chicago, IL). See also Hymotions map showing the location of its customers who have signed up (some of these are not included on our list). Unless otherwise noted, all are Prius.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) Volvo Ford-owned company exploring PHEVs "ReCharge" flex-fuel series 60-mile concept PHEV w/wheel motors.

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