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Personal: My Ongoing EV Adventure

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2016 Fiat 500e – Fidelio Wanting to be like the pros at the big car magazines, I asked my press contact from Fiat-Chrysler (today part of Stellantis) for a long-term Fiat 500e EV test car. Granted, he was my ride when Covid-19 shut down my commute, and later, when I went into work only a day or two a week.

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The 'Toyota Prius' Era of Hybrids Is Now Long Gone

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“The reality is the EV landscape has changed materially over the last few years, and we saw an opportunity for us to place these tons on behalf of Ford with another customer who wanted the product,” Liontown’s Chief Commercial Officer Grant Donald told investors Tuesday.

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Tesla Is In For A Rough Spell. Musk Believes Autonomy Will Save It

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According to a report from Reuters , out of the tens of thousands of chargers planned under the grant program, the U.S. And while we knew that was a slow burn to get moving in the first place, nobody realized just how few chargers were installed under the program—until now, that is. managed to install only 384 chargers.

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Electric Air Taxi Flies From One Airport To Another Airport

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They’ve done that for a little over a century, so we take it for granted. The vertical take-off and landing aircraft isn’t ready for mass production yet. You know what planes do–they fly from airport to airport. So much so that the first time an eVTOL did that was earlier this month.

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Chrysler to Develop New Fiat 500 Electric Vehicle for the US; Ram PHEV to Offer 20 Miles All-electric Range

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Chrysler Group LLC plans to engineer and produce a battery electric vehicle using the Fiat 500 platform. Beginning in 2012, Chrysler Group will manufacture the Fiat 500EV for the United States market. All powertrain engineering and vehicle development will take place at Chrysler Group headquarters in Auburn Hills, Mich.

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Chrysler Disbands ENVI Electric Vehicle Group; Function Absorbed into Traditional Line Organization

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Reuters reports that Chrysler has disbanded its ENVI team, formed in 2007 to bring electric-drive vehicles and related advanced-propulsion technologies to market. At the North American International Auto Show in January 2009, Chrysler had introduced two new EV concepts and updates on three earlier EV concepts developed by the ENVI group.

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Chrysler Unveils Four All-Electric Minivan Prototypes to USPS; Applying for Grant for Nationwide Demo

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Chrysler unveiled four all-electric Chrysler Town & Country minivan concepts to the US Postal Service (USPS) in Washington, DC, as part of the USPS Earth Day celebration. Chrysler’s ENVI group leveraged the flexibility of its electric-vehicle strategy to demonstrate an all-electric version of its best-selling minivan.