The Truth About Cars

MARCH 14, 2024

miles in 18 minutes; there had been two rapid accelerations and two incidents of hard braking. But the issue is that customers likely don’t know that and the NYT article goes out of its way to explain this even when someone actively decides to enroll in the Smart Driver program. OnStar is G.M.’s

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 3, 2021

note: We’re republishing this article because it’s a good reminder of how technology timelines can slip and yet things are clearly moving forward. This article was written more than 10 years ago, when the forecasts were we would have personal and public robotaxis galore. This article may contain affililate links.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 21, 2023

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. This 160-mile drive spotlighted the handling, driving characteristics and performance. Brief Summary: the Air Touring is an exceptional all-electric luxury sedan.

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EV Adoption

JANUARY 22, 2022

There are no legal or financial reporting requirements that would compel Stellantis to publish the specific sales numbers for the Wrangler 4xe, however, doing so would actually provide credibility and proof of its “best selling” claim.

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Get Electric Vehicle

AUGUST 29, 2023

Legal Implications of Conversion In India, you must first obtain approval from your RTO to alter a car’s engine. Its top speed is 80 miles per hour, and its range is 180 km. Skilled labour and specialised knowledge are required to successfully integrate the kit into the vehicle. The battery has a 17.8 kWh capacity.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

While a mandate can potentially increase social welfare substantially, a consumption subsidy likely decreases welfare significantly, primarily because of the taxpayer burden but also because it encourages negative externalities related to vehicle miles traveled, local air pollution and CO 2 emissions.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 27, 2009

At the end of this article, Prof. Bright Automotive says it soon release an electric car with a 100 mile per gallon plus plug-in – and the company says it will keep the car economically priced. Here is the full text of the entire article in case the link goes bad: [link]. I’m still not convinced. by: Michael Kanellos.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 23, 2022

The SUV offers customers up to 350 miles of range via a dual motor system, with a minimum configuration of 250 miles of range via a single motor system. What do you think of the article? The Fisker Ocean has accumulated substantial attention due to its reasonably low starting price of $37,499 and its capable feature set.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

By 2050, as many as 1 million circuit miles of new transmission lines may be needed, with some 140,000 miles required just for the replacement of existing aging transmission lines. In addition, the lack of relevant legal or industry expertise is increasingly worrisome.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

April, 2008 : In an article entitled Dangerous Assumptions ( earlier post ), Roger Pielke, Jr., The Indian government has consistently asserted that it will not agree to legally binding emissions reductions under any circumstances. “ Internationally, we reject legally binding emissions. “It has implications for us.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

It’s fairly well known by now that EVs cost far less per mile to drive than their closest ICE counterparts, and the main reason is simply that the EV drivetrain is far more efficient at converting its stored form of energy into motion. First, in the interest of clarity, let’s define some terms that we’ll use in this article.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Typically, an electric bike can run for 30-50 kilometres (20-30 miles) between charges. Advertising info Legal disclaimer Accessibility Privacy policy Terms & Conditions Help. Some 800,000 are also sold each year in South East Asia, he says, where they replace the noisy and smelly petrol scooters that are ubiquitous in many places.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 24, 2024

Nevada is home to the only existing lithium mine in the US and another is currently under construction near the Oregon line 220 miles (354 kilometers) north of Reno. Nevada is home to the only existing lithium mine in the US and another is currently under construction near the Oregon line 220 miles (354 kilometers) north of Reno.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 9, 2009

Fleet vehicles are perfect for EVs, since the routes are very predictable and tend to be within 100 miles per day. It’s easy to spec out a battery pack with enough kWh for a given size of truck to hit 60-80-100 miles, whatever the given fleet buyer needs. I love that this market is blooming. Trucks especially. by John Dell.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 8, 2022

This article was first published as “Marcian E Hoff.” He wanted to broaden his perspective, both intellectually and geographically (he had never been more than a few miles west of Niagara Falls), so chose California’s Stanford University for graduate school. While a research manager at Intel Corp., While working toward his Ph.D.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) estimates that the current power grid could handle many tens of millions of cars plugging in at off-peak hours before wed have any capacity issues [See EPRI article PDF ]. But it works best if we use plug-in hybrids to power most of our miles electrically. What about battery safety?

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 17, 2022

And the more they do that, the vehicles are actually not road-legal—they’re violating the axle weight limits. Vehicle manufacturers do not share that when they’re selling vehicles, so [fleet operators] are buying vehicles and as soon as winter comes around, they’re getting [only] 60 miles out of a vehicle.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 25, 2022

Squibb, were at the time locked in a nasty legal battle over the commercial rights to the antibiotic tetracycline. It was also entirely legal to hire someone else to do it for you. The jobs with the most legal exposure commanded the highest rates. Newsweek reported in an article on “The Busy Wiretappers” in the spring of 1955.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 27, 2023

This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024. Tessa Sproule , the CBC’s director of metadata and information systems, says she thinks of it as a chain of custody that’s used to track evidence in legal cases: “It’s secure information that can grow through the content life cycle of a still image,” she says. And the U.S.

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Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

Maureen Gorsen: I’m sure that some of them are ready to break away from the pack, and could do more, so there’s an economic advantage to them if [the EPA] pushes to 51 miles per gallon by 2025 instead of 46 by 2026 [for example]. That has been probably the biggest hurdle—not the biggest engineering hurdle, but the biggest legal hurdle.

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