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2024 Ford F-150 Lightning Now Shipping To Dealers, Starting as Low as $62,995

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Online orders are open for the 2024 Ford F-150 Lightning trucks, now shipping from the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center. New tech updates for 2024 include: – A Vapor Injection Heat Pump System to help optimize energy consumption, especially in colder weather conditions.

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ClearFlame’s genset technology progresses through phase one trials

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Performed at the Battery Innovation Center in Newberry, Ind., ClearFlame’s engine allows the genset unit to run on clean, widely available ethanol, reducing carbon, cutting costs and offering a sustainable mobile power source that we are developing to work in nearly all weather and terrain conditions. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Consumer Reports tests show EV range can fall far short of claims due to outside temperature

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The CR team found temperatures can have impact—but said that Tesla stands out for coming up short of claimed range no matter the weather. The team found that cold weather saps about 25% of range when cruising at 70 mph compared with the same conditions in mild weather. Preparing for winter EV range test - Volkswagen ID.4

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ARPA-E awarding $10M to 5 projects in PRE-TRAILS topic; contrail prevention

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Award amount: $2,490,000) RTX Technologies Research Center will develop a platform for forecasting aircraft induced cirrus potential 100 kilometers ahead of the aircraft (up to 10 minutes ahead of time).

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Hyundai Motor Group shows newly developed automatic charging robot for EVs

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The Group’s Robotics Lab has considered diverse variables in developing the ACR, such as the parking location of the vehicle, the shape of the charging port, the weather, potential obstacles and weight of the charging cable.

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Royal Mail announces first delivery office with an all-electric delivery fleet

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Bristol was selected due to the city’s plans for a Clean Air Zone (CAZ), which will require certain vehicles to pay a daily charge to enter its center. The 23 new vans can travel up to 125 miles in between charges, depending on weather and load size.

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SpaceX aims to launch Falcon Heavy tonight after multiple delays

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After a string of weather delays and an abort in the final minute of the countdown, SpaceX is targeting to launch the Falcon Heavy ViaSat-3 mission this evening at 7:29 PM ET. However, this would end up being scrubbed due to bad weather over Kennedy Space Center, including a lightning strike to the tower at LC-39A.

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