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The 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ Gets Impressive Tech and a Six-Figure Starting Price

The Truth About Cars

The hulking luxury family hauler has been around since the late 1990s and has become a showcase for the automaker’s technology and design prowess, but GM is going electric, and a three-ton V8-powered SUV doesn’t fit with that vision. The system uses a powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and runs Google built-in.

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Stellantis: new hydrogen Ram Trucks will be made in Mexico

Baua Electric

And, as such, they can’t afford the kind of downtime that many fleet managers currently associate with battery electrics. I can’t help but think this is the correct take, especially in light of the fact that hydrogen has recently spiked over $30 per kg, and that a kilogram of hydrogen has about as much energy in it as a gallon of gas.

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California Energy Commission awards more than $15M to advance biofuels, plug-in and V2G research

Green Car Congress

The California Energy Commission unanimously approved funding of more than $15 million to projects that will advance biofuels and electric vehicle research in California. will receive $2,325,954 to demonstrate battery-electric medium-duty trucks. Earlier post.) Electricore Inc. Electricore Inc., Villa Ford Inc.

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Toyota is already offering $10k off a lease for its fully electric 2024 bZ4X

Baua Electric

Photo: Toyota Toyota has made its fully electric 2024 bZ4X – which only just landed on dealers’ lots – available to lease with a $10,000 discount. CarsDirect says it was also able to find the 2024 electric Toyota SUV with up to $9,000 in lease cash in other parts of the US. It’s focusing on hybrids and gas cars.

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The Power of Electric

Revenge of the Electric Car

When Google asked for submissions of a 90 second video on the benefits of plug in cars to show at a 2008 Washington DC Brookings-Google Electric Car conference, Alexandra Paul and Stefano Paris decided to rise to the challenge! Alexandra Paul’s “Power of Electric&#. Cast and Crew: Stefano, Alexandra, and Gary.

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Google Ogles Plug Ins

Plug In Partners

Philanthropy Google’s Way: Not the Usual By KATIE HAFNER New York Times Published: September 14, 2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13 — The ambitious founders of Google , the popular search engine company, have set up a philanthropy, giving it seed money of about $1 billion and a mandate to tackle poverty, disease and global warming.

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How To Choose the Right EV Charging Equipment for Your Dealership

Blink Charging

of all light-duty vehicles registered were all-electric, “a 74 percent increase year-over-year and a noticeable change, compared to a 4.3 Chances are that your customers are already asking about test driving and buying EVs from your dealership. In January 2023, 7.1% percent share in January 2022” according to InsideEVs.