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Polestar announces Single Motor Polestar 2 is coming to the U.S.

Teslarati

It packs an identical battery pack as the Dual Motor trim, a 78-kWh battery pack with 231 horsepower and 243 pound-feet of torque. RELATED: Polestar aims for $20B valuation in planned merger with Gores Guggenheim. There are two additional packages available for customers to buy: “Plus” and “Pilot.”

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News Summary I

Plug In Partners

must not be 'hostage' to foreign oil February 20, 2006 MIT researchers invent new hybrid car battery February 7, 2006 Re-thinking the world's economic future February 7, 2006 100-M.P.G. Cars: It's a Start February 5, 2006 Cities to seek plug-in hybrids Janurary 24, 2006 Coalition Turns On to 'Plug-In Hybrids' January 26, 2006 More News

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Gordon wants more electric cars :: KTAR.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

It would create more jobs -- in the installation of charging stations here in the city and the Valley -- also we would be buying the cars and the U.S. One, the battery technology has improved. So weve got a battery pack now thats commercially viable and a car thats commercially viable that we can bring to market."

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Driving on sunshine

Plug in America

I charge at night, when rates are lowest, so there’s a speck of non-renewable energy in my battery. “I was absolutely floored by Gore’s presentation and said, ‘I’ve got to try thinking of what to do.’ No pollution, well-to-wheels. No asthma, no cancer, no NOx, no SOx. Well, almost none.

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2024 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N review: Sell your Tesla, sell your Taycan! This is the most fun electric vehicle ever

EV Central

But it could just as well go to 80,000rpm, because they’re only really imaginary revs, as much there for your benefit as the blood and gore in a video game. These machines are designed to be driven hard, and doing so will destroy claimed economy figures entirely. Score: 4.5/5

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Inflation Reduction Act – How It Supercharges the Electric Vehicle Industry

EV Match

on a path to reducing emissions more than 40% below 2005 levels, per a Princeton University analysis of the measure’s impacts : expanded tax credits for EVs, batteries, solar panels and wind turbines. Honda announced just days ago that it has struck a deal with Korean battery giant LG Energy Solution to build a $4.4

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Blog Archive ▼ 2009 (52) ▼ April (6) Waxman-Markey and REDD BlogRoll Review: Space Beams, Leaded Batteries, an. Several early models of passenger vehicles have enough energy stored in advanced batteries to power several homes for hours. Project Better Place plans to deploy a massive network of battery charging spots.

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