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Road Test: 2022 Kia Carnival SX

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Goodbye To the Minivan. Kia is out of the minivan business and is shaking up things with the all-new 2022 Carnival. The Korean car company will remind you it is not a minivan but an MPV or Multi-Purpose Vehicle. With those words it hopes to remove the stigma of people saying “I will never own a minivan.”. Drivetrain.

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Who will be in the driver’s seat?

Electric Auto Association

Amy Sinclair is the only woman presently serving on the board of the Golden Gate Electric Vehicle Association (GGEVA) , and for many years she has been one of the few female members of this Electric Auto Association (EAA) Bay Area chapter. And in California, we have to keep diversity in mind when it comes to putting women in EVs.

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Road Test: 2022 Subaru BRZ Limited

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After spending a fun week tooling around Southern California in the BRZ, there isn’t any argument coming from us. In our week driving through Southern California we averaged 24.7 Road Test: 2021 Ford Mustang. Road Test: 2022 Ford Mustang Mach-E GT. Road Test: 2022 Subaru BRZ Limited. Raw Sports Car Fun.

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

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In an odd marketing twist, the new Ford Mustang Mach-E is an all-new all-electric car, but wears a hugely iconic name that is nothing like traditional Mustangs except for its horse badge and vigorous powertrain. It also toyed with the idea of presenting Prius as a sub-brand at the point it had four different models, but dropped it.

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Road Test: 2021 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid Limited

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During our week in the Sonata Hybrid we drove 210 miles through Southern California, averaging 48.6 doesn’t have a ranking system for the cars, crossovers, minivans and trucks we review. Road Test: 2019 Ford Fusion Energi. Observations: 2021 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid Limited. Clean Fleet Report. Photos by John Faulkner and Hyundai.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012. Mazda Ford Partner was reported to be developing Series PHEV based on Mazda 5 MPV platform. Establishing dealer network.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Thankfully, since parts of the powertrain in the Circuit are also used in other Chrysler ENVI vehicles - like the all-electric USPS minivan that was unveiled earlier today - work that is done on one model can be applied to others. Well see how the masses respond when they are presented with the full reality of Chryslers first (?)