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Ferrari’s Plug-in Hybrid One-Ups the Combustion Engine

Cars That Think

The world’s leading sports- and luxury-car brands, together with muscle-car mavens like Dodge, are now pushing the envelope of the relatively inefficient internal combustion engine (ICE). seconds, breaking a seven-year-old record for production cars that had been set by the roughly $ 1 million Porsche 918 Spyder Hybrid.

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Volkswagen AG agrees to plead guilty and pay $4.3B in criminal and civil penalties; 6 execs and employees indicted

Green Car Congress

After years of VW selling their “clean diesel” vehicles in the United States that had the cheating software, in March 2014, West Virginia University’s Center for Alternative Fuels, Engines and Emissions published the results of a study commissioned by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT).

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Is Elon Musk Back In “Production Hell” With Tesla’s 4680 Battery?

Cars That Think

Internal crash testing of our structural pack architecture with a single-piece front casting has been successful. Two weeks before Battery Day, Tesla bought three patent applications for just $3 from Springpower International, an obscure Canadian company that Tesla now seems to have acquired outright. It all sounds amazing, on paper.

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