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Flash Drive: 2023 VinFast VF 8

Clean Fleet Report

Additional charging is through regenerative braking that converts kinetic energy into electricity when braking or coasting. Designed by Pininfarina VinFast VF 8 gave the designers at the famed Pininfarina studio a blank sheet. Because of this we don’t address issues such as long-term reliability or total cost of ownership.

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The Reality of Fast Charging for Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Going back to our formula we will first need to convert our kilowatt value to watts so we have 10,800 * 1000 = 10,800,000 watts needed from the source. The cost of putting these on major freeways would be very high but the technology already exists. This would give the EV almost unlimited range over any freeway system so equipped.