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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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Electric-car charging: The basics

Baua Electric

Tesla charging Types of Charging AC or DC Fundamentally, there are two types of charging, based on the format of the electricityAC and DC. Whether you plug into it via a mobile connector or a wallbox, the actual charger that communicates with the battery and converts that AC current to DC (direct current) and is within the vehicle.

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Road Test: 2025 GMC Hummer 3X EV Pickup

Clean Fleet Report

The 4-wheel steering and Crab Walk could come in handy when trying to slip into a tight parking spot at the store, so dont shy away from using them. When driving, charging is accomplished through regenerative braking that converts kinetic energy into electric energy when applying the brakes or coasting, and stores it in the battery.

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Road Test: 2025 Rivian R1T Tri

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If you can find a 350 kW DC fast charger, a 10-80% charge will take approximately 45 minutes. When driving, charging is accomplished through regenerative braking that converts kinetic energy into electric energy when applying the brakes or coasting, and stores it in the battery.

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Road Test: 2025 Polestar 3 Single Motor

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Battery and Charging When slowing or stopping, regenerative braking converts kinetic energy into electric energy and stores it in the battery. 240V (Level 2) 0-100% in 11 hours 480V DC Fast Charging 10-80% in 30 minutes (at 250 kW) Out on the Road Nearly 500 miles behind the wheel provided a true feel for the Polestar 3.

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Consortium Developing New Flexible DC-DC Power Electronics System for Next Generation Hybrid and Electric Vehicles

Green Car Congress

The flexible converter will handle multiple voltages simultaneously on both the input and output sides. In complex architectures this requires several converters. Existing hybrids, such as the Toyota Prius, need one DC-DC converter for the traction motor and another for the vehicle’s 12 volt system.

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Coritech Services orders Ideal Power’s bi-directional battery converters for DoD vehicle-to-grid program

Green Car Congress

developer of a power conversion technology called Power Packet Switching Architecture (PPSA), received a purchase order for ten of its PPSA-enabled 30 kW battery converters from Coritech Services, a provider of custom engineering solutions for a variety of applications including electric vehicle charging. Ideal Power Inc., Click to enlarge.

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