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ORNL study quantifies fuel economy costs of common driver practices and vehicle alterations

Green Car Congress

They presented their results in a paper at SAE 2014 World Congress in Detroit. In addition, two minivans were subjected to coastdowns to examine the similarity in derived coefficients for two duplicate vehicles of the same model.

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

Charged EVs

That’s not surprising—the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid, the company’s only previous plug-in hybrid, is a well-executed PHEV with an EPA-rated 32 miles of usable electric range that retains all the virtues of the Pacifica minivan. How about a lease cost of $265 per month, with $3,940 due at signing? The two couldn’t be more different.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

which hopes to sell cars here in three to five years, used the Detroit Auto Show to display a prototype sedan it says can run 60 miles on batteries developed in-house and another 190 miles on a gas/electric system. The F6 DM uses ferrous batteries, with no lithium content, that BYD says are high-energy density and low cost. "By

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