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Porsche Panamera PHEV, VW ID.7 wagon, Volvo rebuffs Recharge: Today’s Car News

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Porsche adds more electric miles to its Panamera plug-in hybrid. VW reveals a stylish electric wagon. Volvo shifts to the newer naming strategy for all its vehicles that plug in. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Volvo is planning to go all-electric by the end of the decade, and on the way there.

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Volvo’s highest-mileage plug-in hybrid is going away

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The Volvo S60 sedan—which in Recharge form is currently the Swedish automaker’s most efficient plug-in hybrid—is being discontinued in the U.S. production left open the possibility that the S60 would continue here as an import, but Volvo has now confirmed to Green Car Reports that this won’t be the case.

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2017 Nissan Leaf Details, Tesla's Toyota Deal Ends, Quiet Electric Cars: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Today on Green Car Reports: More details on the 2017 Nissan Leaf electric car emerge, Tesla''s deal to supply Toyota RAV4 EV electric powertrains ends, and we drive the 2014 Chevrolet Spark with CVT. All this and more on Green Car Reports. How quiet are electric cars?'

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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

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The Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle with Long Electric Range (PHEVLER - pronounced “fevler”) is a new category emerging in the electric vehicle marketplace. PHEVLERs are defined as PHEVs with sufficient battery capacity for all electric driving of twice the average daily distance. [ Dr. Bruce R.

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Review: 2025 Mercedes-Benz G-Class works on its quads (motors, that is)

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With the electric version of its military-grade G-Class, Mercedes-Benz promises even more freedom from pavement than all those American-built flagwavers, and it does it all with batteries. Going electric doesn’t just bring the G-Class up to date. It’ll come with a CCS charging port and soon adopt the NACS standard.

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Who is winning the green car race? Part II. The Green Piece

Green Cars News

In last week’s edition of The Green Piece Column, we looked at the leaders in the green car race including the likes of Toyota, Honda, Volkswagen and Nissan. Its first model, the Tesla Roadster, was the first production car to use lithium-ion batteries and was the first electric vehicle with a range greater than 200miles.

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XL1 dive and drive: Volkswagen aggressively optimizes for efficiency in its sleek diesel plug-in hybrid

Green Car Congress

The XL1 is aggressively optimized for efficiency in all areas of its design and technology—from materials (carbon fiber reinforced polymer monocoque); to powertrain (0.8L two-cylinder diesel, 20 kW electric motor and 5.5 In all-electric mode, the XL1 requires less than 0.1 miles (one kilometer), based on the NEDC.

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