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2022 Rivian R1T: a real pickup truck makes an impressive debut

Charged EVs

The startup carmaker Rivian was founded a decade ago by RJ Scaringe, but it didn’t go public with its electric pickup truck and SUV until the 2018 Los Angeles Auto Show. The interior design is clean, spare and modern, and it’s trimmed in a variety of materials that include wood, metal and fabric. The next Tesla?

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Will CARB’s New Rules Damage EV Startups?

Revenge of the Electric Car

Air resources board employees say the new regulations are not designed to squelch technological breakthroughs or bankrupt new businesses. That means you can drive around town as an electric car, and then jump on the freeway and head to Los Angeles, without having to recharge the battery.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. 2010 Prius designed to be manufactured with NiMH or Lithium batteries. Slide and summary table last modified February 2, 2009. Red Herring ).

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