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Road Test: 2025 Maserati GranCabrio Folgare EV

Clean Fleet Report

Designed at Maserati headquarters in Modena, Italy, and built at the Maserati Mirafiori plant in Turin, Italy, the GranCabrio Folgare is on the exclusive list of convertible electric cars that deliver performance in style, grace and elan. The Italian touch Convertibles can suffer from wind buffeting and noise with the top lowered.

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In Praise of “Normal” Engineers

Cars That Think

Most of us have encountered a few software engineers who seem practically magician-like, a class apart from the rest of us in their ability to reason about complex mental models, leap to nonobvious yet elegant solutions, or emit waves of high-quality code at unreal velocity. I havent debugged a query plan in years.

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Flash Drive: 2025 Cadillac Optiq

Clean Fleet Report

Our take, after seeing it up close and getting some time behind the wheel: The price, size, driving range, charging speed, performance and Cadillac look, touch and feel will be very appealing to first-time premium small SUV buyers or those looking to move up a class. Story by John Faulkner. Photos by John Faulkner and Cadillac. [

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Converting an old Class A to Hybrid EV

DIY Electric Car

Project summary : Take an old, pre-2000s class A diesel pusher to a P2 hybrid, able to operate as a PHEV for short ranges, but leaves the ICE able to couple to the drivetrain. " Converting an old Class A to Hybrid EV Motivation : Increase efficiency, easier availability of AC power for general use in the RV.

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Paired Power’s EV chargers let customers mix and match solar, storage and grid power

Charged EVs

A lot of parking lots have been converted to LED lights, and during that conversion, the electricity draw on that circuit was decreased, because the LEDs use less current, so you have a little excess capacity in that circuit, and if you tie into that, now you can cover things like cloudy days or rainy days much better.

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REE Automotive’s modular REEcorners enable an unprecedented amount of flexibility in EV design

Charged EVs

Well do a Class 3, Class 4 or Class 5 truck with the one cornerthe systems have been sized to apply to all of those different trucks. Theyll be offering a standard productour P7-C, a Class 4 chassis cabas a starting point. Does each of these come in just one variety, or are there different options? Peter Dow: Yeah.

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Road Test: 2025 Hyundai Tucson PHEV Limited AWD

Clean Fleet Report

The shift-by-wire 6-speed automatic with a torque converter, is engaged by toggling through self-explanatory drive modes, which offers the choices of Eco/Normal, Sport, My Drive and Snow. We also feature those efficient gas-powered vehicles that are among the top mpg vehicles in their class.

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