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Ford updates Escape with new ST-Line; full hybrid and plug-in hybrid options

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Escape, which debuted the world’s first hybrid SUV in 2005, brings back two hybrid choices for 2023, a full hybrid and a Plug-In Hybrid model. 2023 Ford Escape Plug In Hybrid (left) and ST-Line Elite (right). liter Atkinson cycle hybrid engine and electronic continuously variable transmission.

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Report: Toyota To Build Subaru Three-Row EV in Kentucky

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Toyota will build the vehicle in its Kentucky factory, where its own electric three-row will be produced. Its Kentucky facility is getting a multi-million-dollar retooling to support EV production and will eventually source batteries from another Toyota plant in North Carolina. Neither automaker’s current EVs are eligible for U.S.

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Toyota to invest $1.3B to build EVs at its Kentucky plant

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billion investment in its Kentucky factory to build EVs, including its three-row electric SUV for the US market. The investment supports the previously announced future battery EV assembly at Toyota Kentucky. The other 24 are hybrid models, so that’s a fudge. Photo: Toyota Toyota just announced a $1.3 Get started here. –ad*

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Chevrolet introduce electrified AWD Corvette: 2024 E-Ray hybrid

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There is no plug-in charging for the E-Ray’s battery system. Exactly 70 years after the Corvette made its original debut at Motorama in New York City, Chevrolet returned to the city to introduce the first electrified Corvette featuring all-wheel-drive and a powerful 6.2L LT2 Small Block V-8: the 2024 E-Ray. liter (235.5 seconds.).

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2020 Ford Escape to offer hybrid and PHEV variants

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Escape, which debuted the world’s first hybrid SUV in 2005, brings back two hybrid choices for 2020—a standard hybrid and a plug-in variant—and introduces technologies ranging from drive modes and driver-assist features to electric vehicle ingenuity and on-board connectivity. The all-new 1.5-liter

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Toyota to build $50M automotive battery lab at Michigan R&D headquarters

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By adding these critical evaluation capabilities around automotive batteries, our team is positioned to better serve the needs of our customers, including Toyota Battery Manufacturing North Carolina and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, the latter of which will soon be assembling the recently announced all-new, three-row, battery electric SUV.

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Tesla Model Y, Model 3 are the most American-made vehicles, annual study finds

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The Kentucky-built Corsair, which is offered in a plug-in hybrid Corsair Grand Touring, was ranked third. Tesla vehicles took four of the top six spots in the 2022 American-made Index, from Cars.com. The Tesla Model Y and Model 3 took the top two spots, as all of those models for the U.S. are made in either California or Texas.

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