Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2023

Electric cars barely existed in 2010, when the Tesla Model S was still a glint in Elon Musk’s eye. A battery will be the high-voltage heart of each of those 77 million electric vehicles, and by far their most expensive component, setting off a worldwide race to ethically source their materials and crank up production to meet exploding demand.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 4, 2023

Word has it that Mercedes-AMG is mulling over how best to bring back V8 power to the C and E-Class. According to two unnamed sources speaking with Car and Driver , Mercedes-AMG is in the midst of deciding how to bring back the V8. liter Mercedes optimized for performance can’t still be a hoot to drive.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2013

The new MY2014 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van for the US now features a 2.1L, 4-cylinder diesel with a t-speed automatic transmission as standard. Charging takes place at all times via a two-stage exhaust-gas turbocharger system. This downsizing enables lower fuel consumption, accompanied by low emissions and optimum weight.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 31, 2008

All the wind farms and solar panels in the world won’t do anything to lower the outflow of hundreds billions of dollars annually or decrease our pump-fueled funding of Islamic fundamentalism unless we build cars that can use that cleaner electricity. I wish I knew what’s holding Gore back from full-throated support for plug-in cars.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2015

Daimler Trucks North America’s (DTNA) SuperTruck program has achieved 115% freight efficiency improvement (gallons of fuel consumed per ton of goods moved per mile traveled)—surpassing the Department of Energy (DOE) program’s goal of 50% improvement and exhibiting the best results of all reporting OEMs. Earlier post.) Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2014

The Mercedes AMG PETRONAS (Petroliam Nasional Berhad) Formula One Team unveiled the F1 W05, its 2014 challenger, at the Circuito de Jerez in southern Spain. —Andy Cowell Managing Director, Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains. Per the regulations, the Mercedes team downsized their internal combustion engine (ICE) to a 1.6

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

Mercedes-Benz M-Class, ML 350 4MATIC BlueEFFICIENCY. The third-generation Mercedes-Benz M-Class on average consumes 25% less fuel than the previous models. Joachim Schmidt, Board Member of Mercedes-Benz Cars, Sales & Marketing. Click to enlarge. and extensive BlueEFFICIENCY measures to reduce fuel consumption. Earlier post.)

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 5, 2024

Choosing “best of” or “most important” new cars is always dicey, and doubly so with electric vehicles. Kia EV9: the first mass-market 3-row electric SUV Because it’s a mid-size SUV with three rows of seats, Kia’s next EV—and its largest to date—should be a familiar and appealing product for North American buyers. Now we’ve driven both.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 20, 2024

In a first drive of the 2025 Toyota Camry hybrid , we found that the hybrid system blends into the background—just like the rest of the car, which has now appropriately gone all-hybrid. Available all-wheel drive, its ratings of up to 51 mpg combined, and a comfortable, spacious interior make it one of the most appealing Camry sedans yet.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 5, 2024

Choosing “best of” or “most important” new cars is always dicey, and doubly so with electric vehicles. Kia EV9: the first mass-market 3-row electric SUV Because it’s a mid-size SUV with three rows of seats, Kia’s next EV—and its largest to date—should be a familiar and appealing product for North American buyers. Now we’ve driven both.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) It is much more than that.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Technologies combined in this package are all synergistic and provide a route to the efficient use of alternative fuels, accelerating the displacement of fossil fuels. The automotive industry, including Lotus Engineering, has quite rightly advocated engine downsizing for four-stroke engines. Fuel system. Orbital FlexDI air-assist.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Daimler/Mercedes Took over Daimler/Chrysler Sprinter PHEV program. Shifted earlier focus to all-electric Focus in 2011 with Magna.

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