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VinFast Enters Europe, Austrian Post Ditches Fossil Fuels — EV News Today

CleanTechnica EVs

Electric Cars, Vans, and Aircraft VinFast and Pininfarina detail VF 8 and VF 9 designs VinFast signs memorandum of understanding with LeasePlan for customer leasing options in Europe Opel […]. The EV news hose keeps flowing. Below are some hot EV news stories — and a few opinion pieces — from the past few days.

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Scrapyard Find: 2010 Citroën C4 Picasso VTR+

The Truth About Cars

The selling points are plenty of passenger and cargo capacity with a small footprint, plus good fuel economy; the downside is a goofy appearance that even Pininfarina wasn't able to fix. This is a type of vehicle that never caught on so well on our side of the Atlantic, though Japanese manufacturers did their best for a while.

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Flash Drive: 2023 VinFast VF 8

Clean Fleet Report

Designed by Pininfarina VinFast VF 8 gave the designers at the famed Pininfarina studio a blank sheet. Our focus is on vehicles that offer the best fuel economy in their class, which leads us to emphasize electric cars, plug-in hybrids, hybrids and diesels.

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Grove Hydrogen Automotive and State Government of Minas Gerais Brazil announce hydrogen vehicle cooperation program

Green Car Congress

Designed by Pininfarina, the Granite is a sporty 5-door coupe. According to the cooperation, a joint team will be established to evaluate the entire hydrogen economy from hydrogen vehicle development, production and distribution. —Professor Hao Yiguo, CEO and Founder of Grove Hydrogen Automotive.

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California, NHTSA lawsuit; Karma GT; Canada tax credits; self-driving mpg: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

California filed another lawsuit against the Trump administration over proposed fuel-economy rules, this time about fines. Karma plans to show off its GT by Pininfarina coupe at Monterey Car week this month. New federal tax credits in Canada have boosted EV sales in the country, the government says.

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The Reality of Fast Charging for Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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