EV Adoption

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

On January 28 GM announced that it plans (aspires) to exclusively offer electric vehicles by 2035, ending production of its cars, trucks and SUVs with diesel- and gasoline-powered engines. The “30 New EVs by 2025” Promise. Read veteran EV journalist John Voelcker’s take on how much of the media got this announcement wrong.).

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

And so that's what we call "DC fast charging." New DC fast-charging stations are being built at a fairly fast clip. They know it will take a little bit longer than a gasoline car because your gasoline stop. Like gasoline cars, the EPA range rating, which is sort of the one that everybody quotes, has two parts.

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Electric Vehicles Charging Vehicles Electric 89

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

And so that's what we call "DC fast charging." New DC fast-charging stations are being built at a fairly fast clip. They know it will take a little bit longer than a gasoline car because your gasoline stop. Like gasoline cars, the EPA range rating, which is sort of the one that everybody quotes, has two parts.

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Electric Vehicles Charging Vehicles Electric 87

Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2016

BMW range testing was under everyday conditions in city environment, 68° F, heating/air-conditioning, preheating, COMFORT driving mode. When equipped with the Range Extender, if the driver requires additional range, the 2-cylinder gasoline engine is switched on once the battery is depleted to 6.5% Range Extender.

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Li-ion BMW Miles Range 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2011

It is this concept of optimal packaging of the drivetrain components that made the i the logical choice when Mitsubishi decided to make a 100% electric-powered vehicle as it was relatively easy for engineers to swap the gasoline engine for an electric motor and stow the lithium-ion battery pack beneath the sub-floor. i-MiEV, Japan-spec.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2013

Power is sent to the rear wheels through a single-speed transmission, allowing the BMW i3 to accelerate with an uninterrupted flow of power up to its top speed, which is limited to 93 mph (150 km/h). When the BMW i3 is plugged into a public DC fast-charging station (50 kW) it only takes about 20 minutes for the battery to reach 80% capacity.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

That's been a daunting challenge for the plug-in industry at large, which pays often-exorbitant utility rates for DC power-on-demand, even as chargers sit idle for long periods. Shell, by the way, currently serves about 30 million gasoline customers a day at some 46,000 retail stations. No one, not even Tesla, has come close.

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Charging Tesla America Plug-in 106

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The four-door sedan will deliver 40 miles on a charge; a small gasoline engine will recharge the battery as it approaches depletion, extending its range by as much as 200 miles. What the Volt has that electric cars lack is the ability to extend its range by means of burning gasoline, the most popular fuel among cars in the US.

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