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Tesla Tribute

Revenge of the Electric Car

Our Consulting Producer Chelsea Sexton has written a tribute to the three Tesla employees who lost their lives in Wednesday’s plane crash in Palo Alto: We lost a few of our own yesterday; there’s just no other, more elegant way to say it. To the employees of Tesla Motors, they were family and friends.

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MG4 EX4 Concept Teased As Bold Tribute To Metro 6R4 Group B Car

InsideEVs

The MG4 EX4 will be fully unveiled at Goodwood FOS with a 429-hp dual-motor powertrain from the MG4 EV XPower hot hatch.

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

Green Car Congress

In Beijing, INFINITI Motor Company announced it is developing an all-new electrified vehicle platform influenced by the Q Inspiration concept car. Prototype 9 blends modern technology and hand-crafted details paying tribute to the forebears of INFINITI. INFINITI operates in China via a partnership with Dongfeng Motor Company Ltd.

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This Robotic Pack Mule Can Carry Your Gear (and You)

Cars That Think

While the standard approach for developing powered robotic joints involves choosing the smallest motor capable of producing the required peak power, Barry focuses on motor efficiency instead. “It It turns out that the ideal solution is to have the biggest possible motor,” Valsecchi says. “It

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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

The Truth About Cars

Ford launched the Escape Hybrid as a 2005 model (its Mercury Mariner and Mazda Tribute siblings showed up a bit later), so The General had some catching up to do in the green-car department. The system replaced the starter motor and alternator with a belt-driven motor/generator rig that generated five horsepower and 48 pound-feet.

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Take that Hyundai Ioniq 5 N! MG4 EX4 is a hyper hatch with attitude

EV Central

The EX4 is a tribute to the Metro 6R4 world rally championship racer of the 1980s (when MG was British rather than Chinese-owned). But while the 6R4 had V6 petrol power the EX4 is powered by a dual motor all-wheel drive system taken from the MG4 XPower that goes on-sale in Australia later this year. MG4 EX4 concept.

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2024 Lotus Eletre, Auto Martin Valour, 2025 Lamborghini Huracán successor: The Hour In Opposite

Baua Electric

It’s the Hour in Opposite, proper right here at Motor Authority. Main points are thin, however handiest 110 Valours will likely be made as a tribute to a blonde future of using, probably the fuel future. A turbocharged 3-cylinder engine paired with 3 electrical motors will nonetheless be to be had with as much as 1,700 hp.