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BrightDrop: GM’s silent push into electric commercial vehicles

Charged EVs

That line was located at a US “supplier partner” that is building low volumes of the Zevo 600 while GM converts its CAMI plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, for mass production of Zevo 600 vans. mph to match their walking pace. This article appeared in Issue 59: Jan-Mar 2022 – Subscribe now.

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Flash Drive: 2023 Lucid Air Touring AWD

Clean Fleet Report

It slots below the top-end Sapphire, Air Dream launch edition and Air Grand Touring (more on that model at the end of this article), and above the Air Pure. Lucid set-up a mini drag strip, where after some expert instruction on how to use the launch control, we did 0-60 mph in 3.4 seconds and hit 88 mph before lifting.

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Decoding Electric Vehicle Range: 10 Factors That Influence How Far You Can Go

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Driving an electric automobile at high speeds (65+ MPH) also decreases its range. Read this article to know how to find the energy consumption. The range is exactly at the current EPA rating when being driven at 65 mph. Nevertheless, the range drops to 232 and 213 miles at 70 and 75 mph respectively.

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Caterpillar brings electric equipment ecosystem to CES2024

Baua Electric

To that end, Caterpillar showcased a number of on-site generators capable of generating electric power to store in its battery energy storage system (BESS). The first two or three I drove were converted diesel units. So it can take a long time to warm up the hydraulics.” The R1700 XE LHD offers a whopping 16.5-ton

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Will CARB’s New Rules Damage EV Startups?

Revenge of the Electric Car

3Prong Power converts existing Toyota Priuses into plug-in hybrids that can run entirely on electricity. Here is the full text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. They convert Toyota Prius hybrids into mostly electric vehicles that get 100 to 150 miles per gallon. Photograph by Chris Duffey.

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Extreme E tackles tough terrain, promotes sustainable racing

Charged EVs

The car goes from 0-62 mph in 4.5 Extreme E converted the engines and generators to run on low-sulfur marine diesel, redesigned the propellers to reduce friction, painted the underwater sections with a modern anti-fouling paint, replaced the 4,000 interior lights with high-efficiency LEDs, and upgraded the HVAC systems.

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Video Friday: Autonomous Car Drifting, Aerial-Aquatic Drone, and Jet-Powered Robot

Cars That Think

Experiments with a customized Toyota Supra show that scarce amounts of driving data – less than three minutes – is sufficient to achieve high-performance autonomous drifting on various trajectories with speeds up to 45 mph. Our system consists of multiple manipulators with mobility and performs stylistic drawing tasks.

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