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Ford Revises Dealer EV Requirements

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Dealers apparently argued that slow Level 2 chargers were more than sufficient to keep new EVs full of juice for test drives.& & It is worth noting that Level 2s are widely available from a host of different providers – both for commercial and residential installations – and are popping up quicker than kudzu in Kansas.

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2025 Ram 1500 Ramcharger: Charge It Up

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A 92-kilowatt-hour battery and a 130-kilowatt generator combine to bring the juice. Still, there will be features available on the Ramcharger that come from the gas trucks. Inside, the duds will include available features like Klipsch Reference Premiere audio, the latest version of UConnect infotainment, digital keys, and a 10.25-inch

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Guess Who's Back -- 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser Marks Return of an Iconic Name

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liter four-cylinder with a 48-horsepower electric motor that's juiced by a 1.87-kWh The full-time four-wheel-drive system will have a center-locking differential and an available front stabilizer bar disconnect. Rock rails and skid plates are available, as are fog lamps and front tow hooks. kWh NiMH battery pack. Safety Sense 3.0

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VW Adds Basecamp Accessories to Atlas Cross Sport

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Available individually or as a complete Basecamp kit (would you like fries with that, sir?) It also makes sense to offer these items as accessories a customer can opt for (and pay for) when buying their shiny new Atlas Cross Sport, since it will juice the average transaction price and can be financed over however many years.

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BMW Unleashes New 5 Series

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BMW has introduced a new 5 Series sedan, one which will be available either as a gasser or an EV when it goes on sale later this year. The latter means it will be able to hoover up fresh electrons from suitably burly fast chargers to the tune of juicing itself from 10 – 80 percent in about half an hour.

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AI Plays Key Role in EV Charger Deployment and More

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In January 2021, Google introduced a then-new AI tool that helped drivers plan out routes based on the available public chargers between their starting points and their destinations. You can see how long each charge will take and your updated total trip time, so your final ETA will never again be a mystery.”.

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Raejean & Tessie’s photographic EV road trip

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The juice there was so sweet and quick. Tessie hopes that our trip will help EV drivers understand that they need not worry about finding charging juice no matter how far away from home they travel. Electricity is clean, plentiful, available wherever you need it, and becoming easier to gulp down quickly. Thank you, Elon!