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

Green Car Congress

The plant, formerly the Michigan Truck Plant and the production site for Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigators SUVs, is one of three North American light truck plants Ford is retooling to build fuel-efficient global small cars in the coming years. Earlier post.) The 2.866 million square-foot plant was built in 1957.

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2024 Dodge Charger Daytona: the ‘Brotherhood of Muscle’ goes electric – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

The 2024 Dodge Charger Daytona is a Detroit anomaly: it’s a passenger car in an age of trucks and SUVs, it’s battery-electric when U.S. Courtesy of increasingly, absurdly powerful V-8 engines, the old Charger oozed testosterone, and affordable testosterone at that. Dodge says the EVs that replace them will be just as noisy.

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Top 5 best and most affordable electric cars in India in 2023

Electric Vehicles India

Here are the top 5 best and most affordable electric cars in India in 2023. List of Top 5 best and affordable electric cars in India in 2023 PMV EaS E Tata Tiago EV Citroen eC3 Tata Tigor EV Tata Nexon EV Prime PMV EaS E PMV Electric has launched its EaS-E electric vehicle in India with nearly 6,000 pre-orders worldwide. hp and 50 Nm.

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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

READ MORE: Still want that boring SUV? Perhaps more important for those who’ll use their van for work, or carry loads of kit for their active lifestyle or, even, have a large family with loads of luggage, is the eTransporter has a one-tonne payload – a significant improvement over the measly 608kg payload the ID.Buzz can haul.

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Tesla Inside: The Ultimate Vintage Land Rover Retrofit

Cars That Think

“We said, ‘Let’s take a British farm vehicle and turn it into a luxury SUV for the American market,’ ” Wallace recounts during my tour of E.C.D.’s Technicians revamp the car’s electrical wiring, including the notoriously unreliable 12-volt circuits. After every beer, it sounded like a better idea.”. Automotive Design.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. 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! The kit is designed so the batteries can be upgraded to lithium-phosphate.)

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What do you get if you mix a Mazda CX-90 with a Toyota LandCruiser and a Nissan Pathfinder? You get the Kia EV9, and it might just be better than all of them | review

EV Central

The Kia EV9 electric SUV is the latest in the expanding EV-branded family of electric cars. It’s also by far the largest, utilising the 800-Volt E-GMP architecture in a large SUV body designed to accommodate up to seven people. It will instantly catapult Kia into the luxury SUV air occupied by big name luxury brands.

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