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Report: Mercedes Having Tough Time Selling EVs

The Truth About Cars

Despite seeing a surge of interest in its electrified EQ products initially, Mercedes has started having trouble moving EVs. Everyone was having trouble moving EVs off the lot and the depreciation was crazy. Unfortunately, the brand’s sales trajectory doesn’t appear to be cooperating. That was late in 2022.

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Buick Dealerships Taking Buyouts, EV Sales Program Rejected By 47 Percent

The Truth About Cars

Most were claiming they weren’t having trouble keeping vehicles charged to begin with and others were concerned that electric sales volumes weren’t significant enough to rationalize the kind of expenditure. Smaller dealerships simply didn’t want to pay to have fast chargers installed at their stores.

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Stellantis Developing 'Virtual Cockpit' With BlackBerry

The Truth About Cars

They’re very obviously a double-edged sword. However, automakers have had trouble convincing drivers to appreciate proprietary user interfaces. But one the industry seems committed toward retaining. There’s a reason car reviews go out of their way to mention that a vehicle is compatible with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.

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Driving Dystopia: Pickup Sales Are Probably Going to Decline in the UK

The Truth About Cars

Digging into the concept resulted in a lot of angry and confused comments and a recent article from Autocar stipulating that commercial trucks doubling as normal transportation are about to become prohibitively expensive as most are poised for a “near-fivefold increase in personal tax bills" after July 1st, 2024.

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From EV Range Anxiety to Range Confidence

Blink Charging

The term “range anxiety” was a common association for early electric vehicle users, who were troubled by the fear of their battery electric vehicles (BEVs, also known as fully-electric vehicles) running out of battery power and the potential of being stranded on the roadside. What Is EV Range Anxiety?

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Udaipur to Himachal : 923 km in an electric car

Plug In India

Early Trouble - A bad omen? Thanks to the Tigor’s great suspension, I was overtaking other cars on the rumbler strips at almost double the crawling speed that other cars had slowed down to. It definitely was not the PDU connectors, as they had been double checked in front of us. We stopped at the Fateh sagar lake.

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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

Plug In India

To jot down those will take an entirely new blog, but here’s a sample. Managed to beat the morning crowd and exited the city without too much trouble. We realised quite early that the Tigor’s fast tag had a zero balance - so we ended up paying double the toll on the first three gates.