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Look inside Lordstown, E-Tron Sportback range, car buyers and mpg: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

The 2020 Audi Sportback gets more miles of range. And shoppers are still efficiency-focused, even with cheap gas. Lordstown Motors shows us its mammoth plant—in Lordstown. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Report: Tesla Readying New Model 3 Performance

The Truth About Cars

The standard range rear-drive model remained, along with the Model 3 Long Range, but the Performance was nowhere to be found. While it’s still less expensive than many competitors, the new Performance almost certainly won’t be cheap. That could be changing, though, in typical Tesla fashion, there are no official confirmations.

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Used electric vehicle pricing guide: How much you’ll pay for a pre-loved Tesla Model 3, Hyundai Kona Electric, MG ZS EV and many more

EV Central

Cheapest is a 2011 version with 48,800km, but the owner admits battery health is close to 50 per cent, its dash shows a range of 90km and real world range is closer to 68km. Sadly, many other Leafs a little over $10,000 also have a lowly range of 60-90km maximum, down from the original 175km. A piece of history?

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Porsche Whistleblower: “60% of all delivered Taycan have battery issues that caused replacements, damages and fires”

Teslarati

Tesla offered to help Porsche with battery management through Audi contacts years ago, but Porsche management at the time rejected any external help, saying it could handle everything internally, the source noted. The problem affects six of ten delivered vehicles,” the source, who could be described as a whistleblower, said.

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Tesla Model Y wins UK bestseller spot in March

Push EVs

HEVs and mild-hybrids are offered by manufacturers as a quick and relatively cheap way (especially in the case of mild hybrids) to improve fleet emissions, compared to ICE-only vehicles. Audi rounded out the top three spots. The remaining ranks are more closely distributed, with MG and Audi in 2nd and 3rd spots.

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Germany March 2021

EV Sales

Prost for the tiny EV, which is still my favorite VW, as it is the closest we have from the original VW Beetle concept: Cheap, no-frills and reliable transportation for das Volk. 3 MEB platform siblings are still either in different stages of production ramp-up (VW ID.4

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2020's Top Ten Best EVs!

EVolution

We will be ranking vehicles on three factors, their real-world range, their price, and quite frankly, how cool they are! This car comes in three models, the Standard Range Plus, the Long Range, and the Performance variant. Range: 1st/ 3rd. Range: 8th. Range: 10th. That’s incredible for an EV.

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