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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Charged EVs

For some (not all) use cases, the economic advantages of going electric have been clear for a long time, and yet we’ve seen a dozen EV manufacturers go bust while trying to address the commercial market, while fleet operators continue to buy diesel vehicles, which continue to belch out clouds of oily black smoke. They buy to make money.

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Mad Power thoughts

EV Info

It comes upon us when we have barely started ripping out our gas boilers to make way for the expensive and inefficient heat pumps the Government is telling us to buy, or building the costly new power stations that will be needed to charge the electric cars we will all soon require. So that leaves gas with the task of keeping the lights on.

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2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz: Electric Microbus for North America appears, at last

Charged EVs

Iconic design, two-tone paint, three rows, AWD; whatever you call it, the Buzz won’t be cheap. market only in a long-wheelbase version, VW of America having decided the standard European model was just too small. Whatever it is, it won’t be cheap Defining the ID.Buzz as a vehicle is difficult. Then VW launched the U.S.-built

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Power Electric Scooter Buyers Guide | 2022

Plug In India

By Team PluginIndia We often get so many queries, from all of you about buying a high speed electric scooter. In this blog/video we will talk about the performance electric scooters you can buy now in 2022. They offer financial incentives to customers who buy EV’s. It’s time to switch and ditch the oil habit!

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First Drive: 2023 Ford Super Duty Lineup

The Truth About Cars

Four-wheel drive is standard on everything from the XLT and up. liter PowerStroke V8 (475 hp and 1,050 lb-ft) is now supposed to be capable of longer intervals between oil changes, with Ford believing this will be a boon to fleet operators. Though these are not cheap trucks. liter V8 as the default engine. Meanwhile, the 7.3-liter

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Why Are Modern Vehicles So Much Bigger?

The Truth About Cars

Safety standards have required the implementation of systems that often won’t fit into older/smaller designs and loopholes in the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards have resulted in manufacturers sizing up models to exploit regulatory blind spots. But that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been taking place over the last few decades.

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Rajiv Bajaj's Chetak has a New Factory & Sad State of Auto Media

Plug In India

The Ex-Showroom price of the Chetak to set at a whopping Rs 1,94,061 FAME 2 subsidy of Rs 43,500 In states like MH, you get a state subsidy of Rs 10,000 The onroad price is Rs 147,064 which is not cheap. In other words Bajaj wants to ensure that 90% of the vehicles they sell will be oil guzzling, air polluting, noisy ICE motorcycles.

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