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Mercedes Charts Electric Course for Vans, Bringing Luxocruisers Stateside

The Truth About Cars

Mercedes-Benz refers to them as “privately positioned midsize luxury vans”, referring not to the position of ones privates whilst driving the things but rather the intent of these vans to serve as luxury transportation for humans. First, the people carriers. Specifics on the VAN.EA

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Charged EVs

Here at Charged , we’ve been covering the commercial EV market for a decade. When Charged first spoke with him in 2021, he was the Charging Infrastructure Lead at Daimler Trucks North America, and also the Chair of CharIN’s Megawatt Charging System (MCS) task force. How long should the cable be? It won’t work.

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The Big Picture

Cars That Think

builds its rechargeable transit and charter buses. Among the buses BYD is turning out is the Type J6, which can travel more than 140 kilometers on a single charge. But that’s exactly the case being made by SpinLaunch, a startup based in Long Beach, Calif., EV Bus Nursery.

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Can Freight Train Cars Go Electric—and Self-Driving?

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With some halfway decent sensors to detect obstacles on the track, reliable motors and batteries that last long enough (current range is 800km with a sub-hour recharge time), and the software infrastructure required to sort it all out, I don’t see any major obstacles to building these things and putting them on some tracks.

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