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Road Trip: 2023 Ford Mustang Mach-E Premium Extended Range

Clean Fleet Report

Road Trip: 2023 Ford Mustang Mach-E Premium Extended Range Making the Case To Be Your Only Car Clean Fleet Report recently ventured on a 1,796-mile, four-state road trip in an all-electric 2023 Ford Mustang Mach-E Premium AWD Extended. This is our review of the car that made the trip. Here’s an overview.

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Easiest way to recharge an electric bike battery from the sun? QuietKat solar power charger review

Electrek

If there’s one thing I love as much as playing with batteries, it’s charging them up from the sun. And when it comes to my electric bikes, which are kind of outdoor toys by definition, being able to charge in the field is a pretty darn neat trick for extending range when camping or just spending all day in the great outdoors.

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Tank 500 Ultra Review: Is this the electrified 4×4 wagon that signals the end for Toyota’s dirty diesels?

EV Central

READ MORE: 2024 GWM Ora Extended Range review: One of Australia’s cheapest electric cars tested READ MORE: New EV electric car calendar READ MORE: It’s got the Poer! The e-motor relies on a 1.76kWh lithium-ion battery for juice. It combines with an e-motor in the transmission tunnel to produce a claimed 255kW and 648Nm.

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Ford F-150 Lightning charges five EVs overnight, survives with battery to spare

Teslarati

The Ford F-150 Lightning comes with large battery packs that are worthy of the vehicle’s size. A Standard Range battery is 98 kWh, and an Extended Range pack is a hefty 131 kWh. Ford is definitely on board with the idea of the Lightning being used as a backup battery charger for stranded EVs on the road.

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Technical review outlines challenges for both batteries and fuel cells as basis for electric vehicles

Green Car Congress

In an open-access invited review for the Journal of the Electrochemical Society , Dr. Oliver Gröger ( earlier post ), Volkswagen AG; Dr. Hubert A. Jens-Peter Suchsland, SolviCore GmbH, delve into the technological barriers for all-electric vehicles—battery-electric or PEM fuel cell vehicles. wind and solar). —Gröger et al.

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2022 Ford Lightning Platinum Review – Style At a Price

The Truth About Cars

The Lightning uses a dual-motor setup with an electric motor at each axle, and the extended-range battery on my tester had a 131-kWh lithium-ion battery. The Blue Oval was claiming up to 300 miles of range, later 320, for the extended-range battery, and I was seeing about 260 max.

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Workhorse, Plug Power deliver electric delivery van with fuel cell range extender to Fedex; in standard delivery route

Green Car Congress

The vehicle is based on a Workhorse chassis with 80 kWh battery packs and a TM4 traction motor (20 kW, 2100 N·m). Workhorse currently offers the range-extended EGEN with a 647 cc two-cylinder BMW range-extending engine; total range on that vehicle is 120 miles. Source: DOE.

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