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Stellantis Patents Fake Engine Vibrations for EVs

The Truth About Cars

Some thought the idea of a faux exhaust system, designed to help EVs mimic the howl of a V8, was a cringe-worthy gimmick. Granted, your author curses faulty tire pressure sensors, so there’s definitely some amount of bias present here.

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Thankful To Be Home — And ALIVE!

Creative Greenius

“ Debra didn’t want me to go and I will admit I was tired from too much food and too much drink. “I still have no idea what you’re talking about.” Jesus, it’s not about your stupid blog.” ” “Wait – you’re saying you actually read my blog?” Thanksgiving.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Ive noticed that youll hear the sound of an oncoming cars rolling tires before you hear the sound of its engine. Even if I couldnt see, Id be able to hear the sound of the tires well before that car got to me. In that case, the sound of the tires might not audible, but they wouldnt be audible anyway.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , which regulates interstate transmission of electricity, is on board with the idea. February 17, 2009 7:03 am Link Smart Grid An Invaluable Idea Worldwide / Buildings could become the new power plants BRUSSELS ? Electrifying the entire vehicle fleet would provide more than three times the U.S.’s

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My Cycling trip from Agra to Bikaner

Plug In India

Atul Gopal I went on a cycling trip from Agra in UP to Bikaner in RJ this winter and here is my blog on it. Here is the blog - [link]. They had planned that the route should be truck friendly, as our support 407 EX tagged along us. 1 km ahead of Reengus, Vishwanath had a rear tire flat. Will blog about that separately.

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Udaipur to Himachal : 923 km in an electric car

Plug In India

The next action point was to open the dicky and remove the spare tire. One experiment that I thought will work out well is using a VIN based unique ID - which can then be linked to a common payment app, say the Fast tag. Based on video instructions from the service team, I did that. I was told to push down the MSD hard.

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VIDEO: Driving a Tesla-powered Smart

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

a rolling death-wish on skinny tires 157 days ago See More Related Articles and Blog Posts Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1) 1 TEG 3:09PM (4/24/2009) "Because of the nature of the event, there was no demonstration of heart-stopping acceleration or sure-footedness through a slalom." 15 days ago AutoblogGreen for 03.31.09

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