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2023 Volkswagen Jetta Review – Getting the Basics Right

The Truth About Cars

But sometimes, an automobile is truly unpretentious and does the basics well without any fluff. Not necessarily in a bad way – nothing felt cheap. At least the promised fuel economy is on the high side – EPA numbers are 29/40/33. We love to salivate over sports cars around here. It’s just that there’s not much extraneous fluff.

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Why Are Modern Vehicles So Much Bigger?

The Truth About Cars

While consumer preferences have trended toward larger automobiles of late, it’s actually the United States’ regulatory landscape that has been steering us toward gargantuan vehicles. In the 1960s, Americans were enjoying cheap gasoline and everyday automobiles boasting some of the largest engines ever manufactured.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Wang entered the automobile business in 2003 by buying a Chinese state-owned car company that was all but defunct. His engineers investigate a wide array of technologies, from automobile air-conditioning systems that can run on batteries to the design of solar-powered streetlights. Electric cars will be one answer.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Most days, most cars are going to have lots of extra battery capacity,” said Mr. Kempton, noting that on average, American automobiles get driven for just one hour each day. So, the used batteries are almost arbitrarily cheap since an arbitrarily large fraction of their cost of production can be loaded on their use in transportation.

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Tariffs on China aren’t the way to win the EV arms race – getting serious on EVs is

Baua Electric

The largest of these new entrants is the second most populous country in the world, the world’s largest exporter and its second-largest economy: China. And the nature of today’s globalized economy and complex supplier relationships around the world can result in a lot of chaos when a major player implements a major tariff.

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