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TNGA-based 2019 Toyota Avalon features new hybrid system

Green Car Congress

liter four-cylinder Dynamic Force Engine is more fuel efficient, runs cleaner, and is more powerful than previous iterations, and features enhanced thermal management. Drive personality. The converter contributes to low fuel consumption and passenger comfort, since engine revving is kept to a minimum. Avalon Hybrid. A new TNGA 2.5-liter

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Greentech Media | ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Lithium, nickel metal hydrides and even advanced lead acid products are now capable of great energy storage and have strong recycle lives. As a civilization, we have committed ourselves to electricity and we must make cleaner electricity. Battery technologies are advancing rapidly.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Several global indicators on the supply of oil and the known carbon pollution environmental damages its caused all lead us to find cleaner ways of transportation. Today we could be using lead-acid EVs, lead-carbon-acid EVs, or nickel metal hydride or lithium-ion hybrids.