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Alfa Officially States Mileage for Tonale PHEV

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Alfa intends for it to fit well into a customer’s monthly balance sheet as well, announcing today it expects the Tonale to run 33 miles solely on electricity and return a rating of 77 MPGe. Combined fuel economy is an official 29 miles per gallon, which isn’t exactly Prius territory but neither is the power output of the Tonale.

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Porsche Announces Yet Another PHEV Cayenne Variant

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Though it does nothing to simplify Porsche’s insanely complicated model naming system, the new PHEV offers buyers a more reasonable price point than the $153,000-plus Turbo model. second 0-60 mph time and 13-second quarter-mile times. Porsche promises a 4.4-second

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2021 Toyota RAV4 Prime PHEV: 42 mile EV range/600 total miles! A smash hit!

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Its 42-mile EV range, its 600-mile total range and relatively low price tag have made the PHEV an instant smash hit. The obvious next step after creating a popular RAV4 PHEV would be stepping up to an all-electric version. Toyota has designed the PHEV to be VERY inexpensive to maintain. Demand is intense.

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BMW’s 2021 luxury sedan, the 745e PHEV, comes with 16 pure-electric miles

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Using electric power only, the car will take you 16 miles before the 12.0kWh Lithium-ion battery needs to be recharged. The post BMW’s 2021 luxury sedan, the 745e PHEV, comes with 16 pure-electric miles appeared first on Current EV Blog. The plug-in achieves an EPA-estimated 22mpg.

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Toyota's EV Battery Production Efforts are Looking Up

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Some of the automaker’s other partially-owned companies already produce hybrid batteries, and some build PHEV and EV batteries. Toyota has announced a next-generation battery that it said can deliver up to 500 miles of range. In 2010, Toyota grabbed another 20.5 percent, so this recent announcement only really covers 19.5

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Lexus LF-Z is Watts New

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By 2025, the company expects to have 20 new PHEV, HEV, and BEV models from which to choose. 670,616,629 miles per hour, the speed of light, is how fast energy travels as electromagnetic waves. Today, Lexus dropped the LF-Z concept car, stepping on the electric-vehicle (EV) accelerator. This is nearly as fast as car companies […].

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Report: Mercedes-AMG Will Not Bring Back V8 Engines

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Now a plug-in hybrid, the C63 now offered a scant battery range of just a few miles under ideal circumstances and loads more components to contend with. We’ll need more time to amass the relevant data but German dealers have called the model a “slow seller,” according to the MB Passion Blog.