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Electric Car Buyer’s Guide: 7 Steps to Find The Best EV for Your Life

EV Life

For example, I grew up in a “Toyota family” and Toyota only has one electric vehicle available today: The Prius Prime. Searching by Body Type or price range may open up surprising options for you like the fact that Hyundai and Kia make some of the best affordable electric SUV crossovers on the market. Make an EV charging plan.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

In cities like San Francisco, Portland, Ore., In Berkeley, a town known for its environmental sensibility, one out of five cars sold today is a hybrid Prius. and San Diego, a combination of green consciousness and enthusiasm for new technology seems to be stirring public interest in the cars.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

A chemist and government researcher, Wang raised some $300,000 from relatives, rented about 2,000 square meters of space, and set out to manufacture rechargeable batteries to compete with imports from Sony and Sanyo. we could not afford to do anything like this." Wang says the engineers come from Chinas best schools.

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