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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

The Truth About Cars

Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. Toyota followed with the Prius a year later, but it took GM until 2006 to introduce its first true gasoline-electric hybrid here. Even with $4/gallon gas ($6.13

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Maruti Suzuki’s hits and misses | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

Maruti 800 | 1983-2014 To say the 800 is a legend would be an understatement; it is the cornerstone on which Maruti Suzuki was built. Also see: Maruti Gypsy Electric review: Future-proofing an icon Maruti Swift | 2005-present The hot-looking Swift was instrumental in changing the way buyers perceived Maruti Suzuki in India.

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Opinion: Consumer Reports’ Tesla Autopilot stunt crossed a line in an already-heated EV climate

Teslarati

Sustainable/electric cars are the future!! Excited to see this announcement from Ford, as it will encourage other carmakers to go electric too. Tesla OTOH improved all those things. Better known in other territories as the Suzuki Jimny, the Samurai was introduced in the United States in 1985. . No regrets.

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CAM/PwC name Volkswagen Group most innovative global automotive company, Mercedes-Benz most innovative brand

Green Car Congress

Volkswagen impressed us with an enormous range of innovations in all technological fields and with several highly innovative brands in the Group. ”. The study also noted that the Group had launched extremely energy-efficient all-electric cars during the evaluation period in the form of the e-up! Conventional drives.

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History of Electric Vehicles in India

Get Electric Vehicle

Electric vehicles are the future,” You hear it often and we proclaim it all the time. Electric vehicles are eco-friendly and hence a good choice for individuals because they have the proper level of functionality. Do we, however, have any knowledge of the history of electric vehicles?

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Electric Quad Project.

DIY Electric Car

I have an 2004 Suzuki quadrunner (Z250 is anyone cares) It''s a rolling chassis only. The quadrunner has been stripped of everything ICE, and I have retained what electrical will be needed for lights etc. All the Golf cart motors I have been finding on the net are either 10 or 19 spline. Ok enough of that stuff.

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We visited Tata Motor's electric car factory

Plug In India

By Atul Gopal Atul Gopal from PluginIndia and some members of the Nexon EV owners community were invited to Tata Motor's electric car factory. There are crash test dummies for different percentiles of the population – alas all the percentile ranking is based on US populations. Here are his notes from the visit.

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