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2023 Volkswagen Jetta Review – Getting the Basics Right

The Truth About Cars

Not necessarily in a bad way – nothing felt cheap. At least the promised fuel economy is on the high side – EPA numbers are 29/40/33. In a world where the average transaction price of a new automobile is nearly $50K and additional dealer markups are all too common, it’s nice to know that value propositions still exist.

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Tesla Model Y also leads the German EV market

Push EVs

It’s not yet clear if these are dealer demonstration units, or whether they are in fact end-customer deliveries. Outlook The auto market’s YoY growth in March, which the KBA attributes to improving supply chain constraints, was a welcome talking point for the broader German economy. to 0.3%, depending who you ask ).

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Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

Green Car Congress

And oil only seems cheap. If we can again succeed like that, in a decade, we’ll look back and know that we got a great deal: safer, healthier, better lives, an economy no longer held hostage to petro-dictatorships and blindered, monopolistic companies, and a significant response to climate change.

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Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV review: Plug-in SUV saves money, comes at a cost

EV Central

The digital screens look flash, but otherwise it’s a bit devoid of flair and when you dig deeper some of the interior plastics feel cheap. Mitsubishi offers a 10 year/200,000km warranty, as long as you service within the dealer network. It’s hard to give a true figure for the Outlander PHEV’s fuel economy.

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Why Are Modern Vehicles So Much Bigger?

The Truth About Cars

Safety standards have required the implementation of systems that often won’t fit into older/smaller designs and loopholes in the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards have resulted in manufacturers sizing up models to exploit regulatory blind spots. This basically spelled the end of traditional economy cars on the market.

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ECE / Featured / Hybrid & Electric / Themes / Welcome - Minds in Motion

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

And they will probably come from China, if we do not start creating a really dutch alternative, cheap, simple, ultra lightweight and modularized. Let the first dealer give them away for free with every EV, or the utility could be wise enough to do this. And that may well be the only Dutch contribution to the EV economy.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. Jack [Tramiel] made the bet that by the time we were ready to produce a product, 64K Rams would be cheap enough for us to use,” Charpentier said. We were using people who were there anyway,” said Ziembicki. It’s only sand.” Happy New Year 1982!

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