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EV News: A stellar 2022 concludes

Electric Auto Association

Kia, Acura, Audi, Hyundai, EV conversions, and more. Audi The cusp of all-electric Audi is converting all factories to produce all electric vehicles (EVs) as it phases out gas cars. Ford truck conversion. EV conversions Classic cars with a twist Racers and tinkerers convert vintage models to EVs. Buick Wildcat EV.

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BrightDrop: GM’s silent push into electric commercial vehicles

Charged EVs

Buick, meanwhile, was vitally important for the Chinese market, where today more than four times as many Buicks are sold as in North America. Thus, the restructured GM was composed of Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac, while the Hummer, Pontiac, Saab and Saturn brands died. The Task Force ultimately agreed.

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SwRI D-EGR gasoline demo vehicle delivers diesel efficiency at lower cost; potential for LEV III/Tier 3 emissions

Green Car Congress

The D-EGR demonstrator is a converted 2012 Buick Regal with a 2.0-liter In their paper, the SwRI researchers reported that the conversion to D-EGR improved engine efficiency and fuel consumption at least 10% across the performance map, with some operating conditions seeing substantially higher improvements. Chadwell et al.

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Tesla Inside: The Ultimate Vintage Land Rover Retrofit

Cars That Think

highlights the small-but-growing phenomenon of people converting fossil-fueled cars to run on electricity. For this baby-blue Rover, the conversion includes a powerful electric drive unit from a. There, more than 60 employees and two production lines will have the capacity for 100 conversions a year. Each of E.C.D.’s

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Oak Ridge researchers pursuing in-cylinder reforming for control of advanced combustion

Green Car Congress

the conversion of liquid hydrocarbon fuel to a hydrogen- and CO-rich syngas—potentially for controlling combustion phasing in homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) and other forms of advanced combustion. The SwRI D-EGR demonstrator—a converted 2012 Buick Regal with a 2.0-liter

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New EV electric car calendar

EV Central

Buick electric SUV – the Electra is only a concept for now, but expect the sporty high-rider to provide inspiration for an upcoming electric Buick. General Motor eCrate conversion kits – by late 2021 GM plans to offer battery and motor kits for classic cars, allowing an easy EV conversion.

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Chrysler unveils new electric minivan for the US Postal Service

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

i also would like to see the traditional really small van like cars that deliver normally converted to electric, they never travel that far a distance, always have to come back to the distribution centre and certainly take more then 5 min ( 5 min quick charge electric) to fill with mail again before they go out. Follow us on Twitter!

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