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Personal: Range Anxiety Be Damned!

Clean Fleet Report

Staying true to my nature, I decided to see how much better things have become by loading some 20 solar panels into my Mach-E and heading off to south of King City, CA, to deliver them to their next owner. a gallon, so that’s cost equivalent of 57 mpg. She’d go farther, saying that sometimes I’m an idiot and do really stupid things.

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Flash Drive: 2023 Toyota Sequoia

Clean Fleet Report

Fuel economy numbers have not been announced, but the same gasoline-hybrid power plant in the Toyota Tundra pickup gets 20 mpg city/24 highway/22 combined. Built in San Antonio, Texas, at the same assembly plant as the all-new 2022 Tundra pickup, Toyota will be getting the third-generation Sequoia to dealers in late summer 2022.

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Daimler Trucks NA SuperTruck achieves 115% freight efficiency improvement over 2009 baseline; 50.2% engine BTE

Green Car Congress

The final SuperTruck demonstrator ran a five-day, 312-mile (502-kilometer) roundtrip route on Texas Interstate 35 between San Antonio and Dallas, at a weight of 65,000 lbs (29,484 kg) GVWR at a speed of 65 mph (105 km/h), where it achieved an average result of 12.2 mpg (19.26

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Flash Drive: 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning

Clean Fleet Report

This works if your power comes from the utility company or solar panels, which can be provided through a program Ford has with SunRun. Clean Fleet Report recently had the opportunity to drive the F-150 Lightning at a media event in San Antonio, Texas. Silent Running.

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