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Mitsubishi Mirage to Be Discontinued by 2025

The Truth About Cars

While the Mirage of the 1990s was fairly reliable, affordable, and even made a great little tuner car if you happened to be a Mitsubishi or Diamond-Star Motors fan with a penchant for forced induction, the current generation basically exists so Mitsubishi could adhere to emissions rules that would allow the vehicle to be manufactured in Thailand.

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2022 GMC Hummer EV: the biggest, baddest, butchest EV to hit the market?

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For North America, the electric Hummer is the first of a promised 20 or so GM EVs based on the company’s new Ultium battery and powertrain technology. It’s also startlingly fast, and zero-emission, but we’ll get to that.) It’s big, bold, brassy, and in your face—an EV for truck people. After all, that’s exactly what Tesla did.

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Q&A with CharIN North America President: It’s all about interoperability

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CharIN recently decided to establish a North American division, in order to more effectively address local infrastructure issues. Oleg Logvinov, co-founder, President and CEO of charging technology startup IoTecha, was chosen as the new President of CharIN North America.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

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Therefore, electrifying them is critical to reducing emissions. When Charged first spoke with him in 2021, he was the Charging Infrastructure Lead at Daimler Trucks North America, and also the Chair of CharIN’s Megawatt Charging System (MCS) task force. However, the electric road ahead is not exactly clear.

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Why Are Modern Vehicles So Much Bigger?

The Truth About Cars

In the 1960s, Americans were enjoying cheap gasoline and everyday automobiles boasting some of the largest engines ever manufactured. Today’s CAFE standards are supposed to address fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. But that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been taking place over the last few decades.

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Tariffs on China aren’t the way to win the EV arms race – getting serious on EVs is

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At the time, American automakers mostly produced giant gas guzzlers, and Japanese automakers exploited this crisis by rapidly introducing smaller, more fuel efficient cars to America, just as the environmental movement was starting to gain steam and emissions regulations were starting to take effect.

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