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Report: Nissan GT-R Will Return With Hybrid Powertrain

The Truth About Cars

While VP Pandikuthira confirmed that Nissan had indeed built electric prototypes of the GT-R, the company ultimately decided against running with the idea. .basically Think about a plug-in hybrid (with todays technology) and you do two or three laps of the Nrburgring and youre running out of juice. That is no longer the case.

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Leveraging Parking Lot Solar Panels for EV Charging

Clean Fleet Report

Parking lots covered with solar panels is an idea whose time has come. Can Solar Panels Produce Enough Juice? Connecting to the grid allows businesses to sell back unused capacity, saving money and preventing wasting energy when surpluses occur. Why aren’t such facilities multiplying everywhere? The way it could be.

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We’re the New Renewables

Cars That Think

JUICE BOX For many years, environmentalists have looked forward to the coming of net-zero-energy buildings. startup Elve Speed, embodies the mission to bring ultrahigh-speed wireless connectivity to remote and urban areas. We choose images that reflect an important advance, or a trend, or that are just mesmerizing to look at.

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Nissan Joins ChargeScape

The Truth About Cars

The software is designed to wirelessly connect with EVs and manage the flow of electricity in consideration of real-time grid conditions. Participating utilities say this idea will temporarily reduce demand when the grid is strained through smart charging even potentially even send energy back into the network when needed.

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The trials of public charging, part 2 (of many to come)

Plugs and Cars

Only half the story about public charging is providing juice: enabling drivers to extend the range of their vehicles beyond their night-time "fill-up" at home when necessary and overcoming newbie "range anxiety." If you happen to have a chip-enabled credit card (I have no idea how prevalent they are), you wave it. Juice flows.

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2021 Jeep Wrangler 4xe: The legendary SUV brand’s first plug-in hybrid

Charged EVs

The combination is connected to a transfer case that distributes power mechanically to all four wheels. Plug-in hybrids that never connect to the grid might as well not have a plug at all. Five years ago, plug-in hybrid Jeeps seemed like a pretty radical idea all by themselves. It’s sandwiched between a 2.0-liter

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Caroline Reichert, an RWE spokeswoman, noted that the idea here is to ensure that "a car can be recharged in Italy in exactly the same way as in Denmark, Germany or France." The "normal plug" idea doesnt neccessarily work dude. Merely connecting the cable has to do the work. let me plug this car in right here, oh wait!