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9 Months With A Volvo XC40 EV

CleanTechnica EVs

Shirley and Bruce bought their dual/twin-motor Volvo XC40 Recharge, with 4 wheel drive, because they wanted to go green without screaming virtue signaling and ostentatious wealth. “We We decided not to buy an electric Mercedes,” they told me. They didn’t […]

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Hamburger Hochbahn to buy up to 530 electric buses from Daimler, MAN and Solaris

Green Car Congress

Daimler Buses will be providing the battery-electric Mercedes-Benz eCitaro and the new eCitaro G articulated bus. Hamburger Hochbahn AG received the first series-production model of the fully electric driven Mercedes-Benz eCitaro in November 2018 as part of an order for 20 eCitaro units.

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Review: 2025 Mercedes-Benz G-Class works on its quads (motors, that is)

Baua Electric

With the electric version of its military-grade G-Class, Mercedes-Benz promises even more freedom from pavement than all those American-built flagwavers, and it does it all with batteries. There’s no mention of the silicon-anode battery chemistry that Mercedes has been keen to introduce to speed charging times. at least).

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Mercedes-Benz GLC to ditch plug-in hybrid tech for Australia, EVs the focus

EV Central

Mercedes-Benz Australia is hitting the brakes on PHEV – plug-in hybrid electric vehicle – sales. “There will be no plug-in hybrid GLCs,” said Mercedes-Benz Australia spokesman Jerry Stamoulis at the vehicle’s international media intro in Spain. But Mercedes-Benz PHEVs will not disappear completely.

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Premium EV bargain hunting? 2024’s best cut-price prestige electric buys

EV Central

And the chauffeur only needs worry about recharging every 625km. 2022 Mercedes-AMG EQS 53 sedan – $182,000 (-$145,000) Mercedes-AMG EQS53 – ex-demos now from $180,000, save six figures! 2024’s best cut-price prestige electric buys appeared first on EV Central. A $137,000 bath, after 44,000km and 2.5

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2018 Camry Hybrid, Mercedes electric plans, rotary range extender, Best Car To Buy: The Week in Reverse

Green Car Reports

What company teased us with the possibility of 6-minute electric-car recharging? Which vehicles made it into the finalists for our Best Car To Buy 2018 award, and which didn't? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending on Friday, October 20, 2017.

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Nobody Knows if the BMW M5 Touring is Coming to America

The Truth About Cars

The M5 is expected to start above $110,000 and that price kind of makes any additional practicality offered by the wagon irrelevant, especially on a market where you can still buy full-size luxury SUVs for roughly half that price. kWh battery needs to be recharged.

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