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EV damaged? Discovering a technician to recovery it’s going to snatch a hour

Baua Electric

Many storage homeowners draw back at coaching and kit prices for solving high-voltage EVs – with 400- and 800-volt techniques that might electrocute and blast unwary or untrained technicians in seconds – particularly with rather few EVs at the highway. “How are people going to afford the higher repair costs?”

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Ford Investing $550M to Retool SUV Plant to Produce Focus Small Car and EV

Green Car Congress

The new Focus is being developed in Europe—where Ford is a leader in small cars—off a new global C-car platform. The vehicle is one part of a larger strategy Ford announced in January to develop electric vehicles for North America quickly and affordably by leveraging its global platform capability.

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VW reveals first details of electric T7 eTransporter: It’s not as sexy as an ID.Buzz but it can carry heaps of stuff

EV Central

Set to be sold as both the new electric eTransporter and traditional diesel Transporter, the commercial van range is due on-sale in Europe in early 2025 and at an as-yet unconfirmed later time in Australia. A 400-watt (230-volt) power hub can also be optioned to power larger electrical devices within.

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Tesla Inside: The Ultimate Vintage Land Rover Retrofit

Cars That Think

The car holds about 100 kilowatt-hours’ worth of lithium-iron phosphate (LFP) batteries—a lower-cost approach used for the Teslas sold in China and Europe (and. Technicians revamp the car’s electrical wiring, including the notoriously unreliable 12-volt circuits. But [with such kits], you don’t need special high-voltage knowledge.”.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Today youd do it to be one of the first to drive the worlds cleanest extended range vehicle; in the future, youll do it because its an obvious and affordable win! Amberjac Systems www.amberjacprojects.com United Kingdom-based company has provided conversions in Europe. They are early adopters, buying "Version 1.0"

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Electric car supporters are rising to defend General Motors’ development of the Chevy Volt after the Obama Administration’s automotive task force proclaimed that the car was probably too expensive to be commercially successful in the near future. is hoping to launch the Volt in late 2010 with a price tag of about $40,000. and Chrysler.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

General Motors Chevy Volt series PHEV, which it calls "extended range electric vehicle" (EREV), part of "E-Flex" multi-fuel platform. See Chevy Volt for latest. Now Lutz envisions selling hundreds of thousands of Volts a year, probably priced below $30,000. I want to stick around to see the Volt come to market.

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