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Ford Mustang Mach-E GT tests its 1/4-mile mettle

Teslarati

hit the Cedar Falls Motorsports Park in Cedar Falls, Iowa. While the Mach-E certainly did not run the fastest 1/4-mile drag ever, it certainly did a good job, even with limited battery power and being Ford’s first electric car. The all-electric Mach-E ran a 12.657-second 1/4-mile at 100.02

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Advantage EV

Electric Auto Association

For EV drivers, cold temperatures slow down the chemical reactions in battery cells, and because they don't have heat-producing engines, EVs must use additional battery power to warm their cabins (although these can be pre-heated in plugged-in EVs).

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Green Car Congress

Battery Powered Zero Emission Circulator Buses: Innovative Quick Opportunity Charge, Lithium-Ion Titanate Battery Powered Community Bus program. Material is being financed and procured through the New York Power Authority. Ames Transit Agency, Iowa: $1,600,000. Link Transit, Washington: $2,925,000.

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