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How To Survive the Winter Driving an EV

Clean Fleet Report

Even a policy with cheap rates can provide some coverage in case of an emergency. Keep your EV Battery Charged. Driving an electric vehicle has obvious advantages in terms of fuel efficiency, but it also comes with an important responsibility: keeping the battery charged. Warm your EV Before You Hit the Road.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

As utilities shifted to more reliable alternating-current systems, they phased out these costly backup batteries. Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce.

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Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV review: Plug-in SUV saves money, comes at a cost

EV Central

With PHEVs at their most fuel-saving at low speeds, this ensures you don’t exhaust your battery before reaching built-up areas with slower traffic and more stop-starts. The Outlander will always prioritise using battery power first, so remembering to hit that SAVE button is imperative if you don’t want to exhaust it.

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Benz’s $155k EQV electric people mover arrives

EV Central

Benz says the people mover’s 110kW DC charging capacity allows top-ups from 10 to 80 percent in approximately 45 minutes when using a rapid charger. A residential 11kW AC wall box has the battery from empty to full in around 10 hours. Mercedes-Benz EQV can be no coast optioned with four captains chairs for the back.