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2024 Toyota bZ4X AWD review: Why driving Toyota’s first electric car on dirt is like chucking a Giraffe in a pool … Really

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The Model Y will travel further, though, claiming 533km between charges, compared to the Toyota’s 411km. While its set up for DC fast charging, it’s limited to 150kW. The cheaper FWD model has everything you actually need – unless you’re the type to push a giraffe into a pool. SCORE: 3.7/5 SCORE: 3.7/5

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H2ME has 100 fuel cell vehicles on the road in Germany, France and UK

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Powered by a compact 5 kW fuel cell module, coupled with a hydrogen storage unit and medium-size automotive battery pack, Symbio’s range-extender kit doubles the range of Renault’s electric-only Kangoo ZE model to 320 km. In addition, Daimler has deployed 40 B-Class F-CELL vehicles under H2ME in Germany.

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KIT/IIT team demonstrates suitability of high-entropy oxides (HEO) as conversion materials for reversible energy storage

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With HEO, electrochemical properties can be tailored, as was found by scientists at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Among the most important properties of batteries are their storage capacity and their cycling stability, i.e. the number of possible charging and discharging processes without any loss of capacity.

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Ford Investing $550M to Retool SUV Plant to Produce Focus Small Car and EV

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The transformation of Michigan Assembly, once one of the world’s most profitable auto plants during the SUV boom of the late 1990s, is rooted in the fundamental strategic shift by Ford to leverage its global assets to bring six world-class small cars to the American market by the end of 2012. Ford President and CEO Alan Mulally.

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Seven-day test: Living with the 2024 Peugeot e-2008 GT. Can it really challenge a Tesla Model Y or BYD Atto 3?

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You’re a smart little SUV. The e-2008 has a range of only 328km, its single motor offers just 100kW/260Nm, has 100kW maximum charging, and the rear seat and boot space are sized better for a retired couple than our family of four. Day 3 – Home charging 2024 Peugeot e-2008 GT. You feel a bit second class back here.

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2023 Kia EV6 GT review: Mega-popular electric vehicle put to the seven-day test

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It’s mind-blowing, if not quite in the re-wire brain territory of the Porsche Taycan Turbo S. If you want to keep the tyre mobility kit and power cable bags in the boot, this also eats into space. Very cool and ideal to charge phones, your laptop, coffee machine, widescreen TV or even bar fridge. That’s daft acceleration.

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2020’s best electric cars

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The number of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) registered in 2020 was slightly higher than the DriveElectric forecast of 98,500 back in January last year, this year we’re predicting over 200,000 Pure Electric Vehicles to hit UK roads in 2021! Full charge time. Cost of full charge. Best range – Polestar 2. WLTP range.

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