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Airbus is Working on a Superconducting Electric Aircraft

Cars That Think

The highlight, from a tech perspective, is a superconducting, fuel-cell powered airliner. While undertaking the enormous R&D projects needed to create the large, fuel-cell aircraft, the company said it will also work aggressively on an airliner designed to wring the most possible efficiency out of combustion-based propulsion.

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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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Massive solar array to power airside electric ground service vehicles at JFK Airport’s New Terminal One

Charged EVs

MW of fuel cells and 1.5 As the move from diesel- or LP-powered vehicles to electric vehicles takes place at airports, its important to keep in mind that ICE-powered vehicles convert 20% to 30% of their fuel into propulsion, while EVs convert 80% to 90%.

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ZF Developing Novel EV Range Extender, Production Starts Next Year

The Truth About Cars

Range extenders can admittedly feel a little backwards when all-electric vehicles were initially marketed as a way to pivot the public away from fossil fuels. This permits the vehicles to travel shorter distances using nothing but electricity, or tap into the fuel tank and use gasoline or diesel to help accommodate longer journeys.

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Rare Rides Icons: The Cadillac Eldorado, Distinctly Luxurious (Part LX)

The Truth About Cars

We began with the first edits through 1973 and then explored 1974 through 1976 when the Eldorado shed its round headlamps and its convertible variant. It was the last domestic convertible at a time when consumer interest in them was at a low point , but Cadillac’s marketing people made quite a hubbub about its departure.

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Flash Drive: 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ

Clean Fleet Report

Having no gasoline engine eliminated delays and hesitations that can come from the air-spark-fuel demand under hard acceleration. kW The variable regeneration, with one pedal driving, when coasting or braking, converts kinetic energy into electric energy and returns it to the battery, adding driving range. kW standard; 19.2

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Flash Drive: 2025 Cadillac Optiq

Clean Fleet Report

With no gasoline engine, the Optiq eliminated delays and hesitations that can come from the air-spark-fuel demand under hard acceleration. The variable regeneration, with one pedal driving, when coasting or braking converts kinetic energy into electric energy and returns it to the battery adding driving range.