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2023 Ford Bronco Sport Heritage Limited Review – Beauty Isn't Just Skin Deep

The Truth About Cars

I continue to find the Bronco Sport to be engaging to drive on-road – being on the Escape platform no doubt helps with that – while also being one of the better-looking boxes on the road. I thought they might all be sold out but I found at least two apparently brand-new examples for sale via one of the giant car-shopping sites.

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Tesla Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript: April 23, 2024

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The primary driver of this was an increase in inventory from a mismatch between builds and deliveries as discussed before, and an elevated spend on CapEx across various initiatives including AI compute. And so, like we’re not going to just randomly build 4680s unless we have a place to put them. billion in the first quarter.

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GM, Segway to Make Vehicle - WSJ.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

maker of the upright, self-balancing scooters, to build a new type of two-wheeled vehicle designed to move easily through congested urban streets. Goldman Pushes Stock Issue in Plan to Escape U.S. NewsVine StumbleUpon Mixx Text Size By SHARON TERLEP General Motors Corp. is teaming with Segway Inc., Grip 79 comments 5.

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

0:00 / 4:23 Big battery bet If we dont care about our automotive industry, we can let Toyota ( TM ) or Honda ( HMC ) build our electric cars, with LG or Panasonic ( PC ) making the batteries. There is a model that may point to the way to build a new battery industry: the early days of the microprocessor. To keep U.S. To keep U.S.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The first buyers will be fleet users, which will build central fast-charging facilities. Put simply, this little-known upstart has accelerated ahead of its much bigger rivals in the race to build an affordable electric car. operations are small - about 20 people work in a sales and marketing outpost in Elk Grove Village, Ill.,

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Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Chrysler isnt the first to realize that building an EV off of a Lotus platform makes for an incredibly fast and fun experience (see also: Tesla Roadster ) We escaped from the dark confines of Cobo Hall onto a decently sunny day and cruised along the river and past the Ren Cen, gunning the Circuit whenever possible.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012. Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009. Establishing dealer network.

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