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6 Easy Ways to Boost Car MPG

Clean Fleet Report

The current inflation definitely didn’t only affect the price of our groceries—as diesel and gas became more expensive, too. If you vary your speed up and down between 45 and 52 mph every 18 seconds, this increases fuel use by 20%. You use 20% more fuel if you drive your car at 75 mph instead of 62 mph.

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DHL puts 50 Orange EV yard trucks to work, plans to add 50 more

Baua Electric

Diesel yard trucks which are often used just 5 years or 15,000 hours before maintenance and repair costs become prohibitively expensive,” it reads. “In Some quick, back-of-the napkin math tells me that 15,000 hours times an average 30 MPH would put us at 450,000 miles. Right in Mike’s 400-500,000 mile rebuild window, in other words.

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Road Test: 2022 Jaguar F-Pace R-Dynamic S Mild Hybrid

Clean Fleet Report

Selecting the Dynamic drive mode for a wonderful throaty exhaust note, the acceleration was spirited, with 0-60 mph consistently turned in the 5.2 inch high-definition driver display has well-placed gauges for ease of viewing. inch curved glass high-definition touchscreen. second range. The configurable digital 12.3-inch

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Road Test: 2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz Limited AWD

Clean Fleet Report

We did a bit better on a 120-mile freeway run with the adaptive cruise control set at 65 mph, achieving 28.1 Selecting the Sport mode for that extra oomph helped turn 0-60 mph in about 6.3 inch high-definition color touchscreen with navigation, and a multi-view front and rear camera system. Maintenance Three years/36,000 miles.

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Road Test: 2024 Cadillac XT4 Premium Luxury FWD

Clean Fleet Report

Our best efficiency was over a 110-mile all-freeway run with the adaptive cruise control set at 65 mph, earning us 32.5 Other safety features included walk-up illumination, high-definition rear view camera, surround vision and rain-sensing windshield wipers. In 365 miles of mostly freeway driving we averaged 26.1 mpg, same as the EPA.

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Ride1Up 700 series review: A classy Class-3 e-bike that doesn’t break the bank

Green Authority

If this is your first e-bike or you have never done any hands-on bicycle maintenance before, prepare for a learning curve. I had to screech to a halt going 20 mph to miss a car racing out of a parkade that wasn’t looking, which likely saved me some injuries. There are a few compromises, but the pros definitely outweigh the cons.

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Here are the best electric bikes you can buy at every price level in March 2024

Baua Electric

It’s a throttle-enabled Class 2 folding electric bike with 20″ wheels, a max speed of 20 mph (32 km/h) and a motor rated for 300W continuous and 720W peak. Lectric XP LITE quick specs Motor: 300W (720W peak) geared rear hub motor Top speed: 32 km/h (20 mph) Range: Claimed up to 72 km (40 mi), but less on throttle only Battery: 48V 7.8

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