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Hyundai Ioniq 6 AWD Techniq review

EV Central

We don’t know if the Ioniq 6 will introduce remote connectivity – allowing activating climate control or checking the charge status from your phone – as found in Teslas, for example. They’re a big improvement on the Ioniq 5’s slightly cheap looking and feeling doors. DC charging : 230kW, CCS combo plug.

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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

Green Car Congress

Five of the 28 innovations will help protect the grid from wildfires/PSPSs, four of these five will provide climate and weather risk prediction to electric infrastructure and services, and one is a hard tech innovation to reinforce transmission lines. Leap Photovoltaics Inc.

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Genesis GV70 Electrified review

EV Central

Straight up, at $127,800, the GV70 Electrified does not sound cheap, but it is packed with gear and doesn’t charge you umpteen thousands in optional extras. Comfort is more than fast enough for anything but the most enthusiastic attack on a winding hill climb. DC charging : 240kW, CCS plug. Genesis GV70 Electrified: Value.

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2024 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N: road and track review of a Kia EV6 GT and Tesla Model 3 Performance killer

EV Central

Same for the door rests, although the too-thin recycled material door cards feel too cheap for this price car. inch screens look excellent in a single panoramic display, while climate controls are a mix of touch pads and proper physical buttons. It masks its weight on winding roads too, and can really feel quite small and playful.

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Driven: Mercedes-Benz EQE sedan range

EV Central

Not as aesthetically successful (to this reviewer’s eyes) as the larger EQS, the EQE certainly looks like the bulk of its exterior design was done in Benz’s wind tunnel. Especially when climate control is involved. This means it’s achieved a superb, slippery 0.22 Cd (the EQS has a record-breaking 0.20 seconds (3.3

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2024 Polestar 2 Long Range Single Motor review: Better, but good enough?

Baua Electric

Charging is also uprated compared to earlier Polestar 2 models, with 205kW DC charging and a reasonable estimated 10-80% time of 28 minutes. Cabin heating and defrosting seemed up to the challenge of a Berlin winter, melting light snow off the exterior glass, though I can’t speak for climates with true deep-freeze conditions.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Furthermore, changing the battery pack on say a Toyota Prius often costs a fortune, at least in most European countries, so such cars better be VERY cheap, but they’re not. Wind, hydro, DC transmission lines, and smart grid electronics are also Portland strengths. — Larry 4. Follow the money.

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