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Ford unveils F-150 Lightning electric pickup; starting at $39,974; arriving in 2022

Green Car Congress

Arriving in spring 2022, F-150 Lightning will be available in four series and two battery options at more than 2,300 EV-certified Ford dealers across the country, with the option for fleet customers to access Ford’s complete ecosystem of connected data and telematics services via Ford Commercial Solutions. America’s No.

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Ford Looks to Extended-Range EVs to Juice Demand

The Truth About Cars

The internal combustion engine is not connected to a transmission or drive system, and EREVs charge just like any other EV. Extended-range EVs rely on electric motors powered by batteries for propulsion, but they also have a gas engine that acts as a generator to recharge the battery. Images: Ford] Become aTTAC insider.

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Leveraging Parking Lot Solar Panels for EV Charging

Clean Fleet Report

Leveraging Parking Lot Solar Panels for EV Charging. It sounds like a utopian dream: rows of electric vehicles staying cool and charging away beneath solar panels while their owners shop, dine and conduct business. Can Solar Panels Produce Enough Juice? Parking Lot Solar Panels and EV Charging. Retrofitting Woes.

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Scoop pics: Cute Nio Firefly electric hatch caught testing in Australia, could be on-sale here in 2026

EV Central

The Firefly is powered by a modest 105kW/200Nm e-motor driving the rear wheels, with juice supplied from a 42kWh lithium-ion battery pack. Charging rates are 11kW AC and 100kW DC. Reflecting its export ambitions the Firefly gets Apple CarPlay and Android Auto connection, which more luxurious Nios still miss out on.

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2025 Ram 1500 Ramcharger: Charge It Up

The Truth About Cars

A 92-kilowatt-hour battery and a 130-kilowatt generator combine to bring the juice. The Ramcharger rides on Stellantis' STLA Frame body-on-frame platform for large electric vehicles and it offers vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-home charging. There is apparently no mechanical connection between the V6 and the wheels.

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More SF Bay Area Charge Stations.some work

Plugs and Cars

Once again, charge station serendipity. As we walked away, pleased to have given this unexpected real-world demonstration of public charging to the visiting Dutch scholars, we saw a Tesla plugged in to a random 120V outlet. Later I checked, and the charge stations do appear on the Coulomb/ChargePoint America maps.

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The trials of public charging, part 2 (of many to come)

Plugs and Cars

I wrote back in December about my unhappy experience attempting to charge my loaner LEAF at San Francisco City Hall's electric car charging stations. Parking in these Coulomb charge stations is restricted to city-owned vehicles and Car Share companies under threat of towing. There is a cost to charging.