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2024 Hyundai Santa Fe -- Open for More

The Truth About Cars

LOS ANGELES -- No, we haven't turned into a late-night infomercial, saying "but wait, there's more!" We're quoting the tagline from the press release for the 2024 Hyundai Santa Fe: "Open for More." I poke some gentle fun at the larger liftgate above, but Hyundai has a reason to highlight it -- it offers a "terrace-like" space.

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The 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N Has Hi-Po Attitude

The Truth About Cars

LOS ANGELES -- High performance isn't just limited to vehicles that burn dead dinos in some way, shape, or form. The 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N isn't the first high-performance EV -- there are several examples on the market. Or so Hyundai says. Hyundai quotes a 0-60 time of 3.25 EVs can get in on the fun, too.

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2024 Hyundai Santa Fe – Heading in a New Direction

The Truth About Cars

The reveal of the 2024 Hyundai Santa Fe took us a bit by surprise a few weeks ago. We also learned that there’s still more information to come – Hyundai kept mum on key details, telling us to check back during the Los Angeles Auto Show so often that it became a running gag. Which I did during the waning days of July.

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CEO Mary Barra & General Motors Make Sure The Greenius Is Rewarded For His Many Years Of EV Advocacy

Creative Greenius

As a former top corporate subject matter expert, I took a very deep made myself a environmental resource for others in my reincarnation as The Creative Greenius and author of this blog. The first Bolt displayed at the annual National Drive Electric Event in 2016 in Los Angeles. But I needed to see and feel the car for myself.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Hyundai will in months offer 2 models that will leap frog toyota and honda by years - it will be based on a lithium POLYMER battery thats lighter, cheaper, and maintains charge many times longer than NiCad batteries and all at a price half that of Volt. For more information, please see our Comments FAQ.

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GM, Segway partner on two-wheel city vehicle | Green Tech - CNET News

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Photos: GM, Segway purr about PUMA Martin LaMonica is a senior writer for CNETs Green Tech blog. Minus three when people realize that there already are cars like that: The Swatch Car, Hyundai Getz, i10, etc. He started at CNET News in 2002, covering IT and Web development. E-mail Martin. Im astonished at the negativity here.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Hyundai Partnering with Korean battery companies for hybrids. Vice Chairman Bob Lutz in GMs FastLane blog ). Hyundai top 12/18/07 Hyundai Motor, Koreas largest automaker, said it is considering developing a plug-in hybrid car, a move expected to follow bigger rivals such as Japans Toyota Motor and General Motors of the United States.

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