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Porsche Casts Doubt Upon Combustion Ban Timeline

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Electric vehicle subsidies went from temporary to indefinite and combustion bans have gone from right around the corner to anyone’s guess. Despite Europe having adopted battery electric vehicles far more quickly than North America, the market is still confronting a lot of the same problems. I think it could be delayed."

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Seven Considerations Before Bringing EV Charging to Your Workplace

Plug N Drive

The transition to electrified transportation continues to gain momentum as more electric vehicle (EV) models emerge on the market, government incentive programs expand and the total share of EV passenger car sales grows. As EV usage grows across Canada, workplaces will be under increasing pressure to offer EV charging access for employees.

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Cummins introduces 5L V8 diesel for North American light- and medium-duty commercial vehicles

Green Car Congress

will serve customers in the United States and Canada, and will be certified to US EPA 2013 NO x and PM emissions levels. Many of our customers have asked for a Cummins alternative for gasoline or other small displacement automotive diesel engines. The ceramic glow plugs are designed to last the life of the engine, with no maintenance.

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Volvo’s Polestar 1 PHEV makes European debut; pre-orders open 13 March

Green Car Congress

Polestar, Volvo Cars’ new electric performance brand, introduced the Polestar 1 plug-in hybrid to the public for the first time at the Geneva Motor Show. The combustion engine in the Polestar 1 is a high-performance supercharged and turbocharged gasoline in-line four-cylinder engine. Two electric motors drive the rear wheels.

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Used Electric Vehicles – Affordable and Available

Plug N Drive

Written by Cara Clairman, President and CEO, Plug’n Drive. At Plug’n Drive, we have lots of visitors come to the EV Discovery Centre , waxing poetic about electric cars, that they are the future of transportation, but they are too expensive and out of reach for most consumers. USED-ELECTRIC-VEHICLES.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) It is much more than that.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

The case, morally and even financially, for an all-electric car is becoming stronger and stronger. A lot of current and upcoming electric cars are in the 300-mile range. But your experience would likely be you would get in your electric car. It has its own charging station to design its own plug design. in a Tesla.