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Protecting Your Ride: A Guide to Anti-Theft Systems & Devices

Clean Fleet Report

This statistic alone highlights the importance of taking preventive measures to protect your car. When triggered, they emit a blaring sound, flashing lights and often disable the vehicle’s ignition. In the event of theft, it becomes challenging for criminals to sell the vehicle’s parts or alter its identity.

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Construction can turn green

Electric Auto Association

There’s no doubt that driving electric helps the environment, as does installing home solar panels. Upward of 38 new battery gigafactories are to be built in Europe in the next decade, and that’s just to deal with the projected demand for passenger cars and light trucks! The statistics are similar around the world.

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euroFOT study demonstrates how driver assistance systems can increase safety and fuel efficiency

Green Car Congress

A radar installation continuously scans the area in front of a vehicle. If it then approaches too close to another vehicle, then the driver is alerted via sound and light signals. A warning light then indicates that another vehicle is in that position. Blind Spot Information System (BLIS). BLIS was tested by Volvo Cars.

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2022 Ford F-150 Lightning First Drive: Ford’s most valued model is now electric

Charged EVs

On the minus side, adding 1,500 pounds of plywood in the bed or 5,000 to 9,000 pounds of trailer on the hitch makes the front wheels light. Ford has partnered with Sunrun for installation of a $3,895 home integration system that includes a 9.6 All-wheel drive is standard on all versions of the Lightning today.) Truck bros approve?

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Study Finds PHEV Li-ion Cells Show Little Capacity Fade Under Combined Driving and V2G Usage; Economic Model Suggests Incentives Will Be Required for Vehicle Owners to Participate in V2G

Green Car Congress

Statistical analyses indicated that rapid battery cycling incurred when driving degraded the cells more than slower, vehicle-to-grid galvanostatic cycling. An 800 watt constant load was added to account for the power needed for all activities unrelated to movement such as heater, air conditioner, radio, lights and other accessories.

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World premiere of new smart fortwo and forfour

Green Car Congress

In 2013 the smart electric drive car was the market leader in Germany and ranked third in Europe and fifth worldwide in the registration statistics for electric cars. Its statistics are 8.65 The ESP indicator lights up in the instrument cluster in response to noticeable intervention by Crosswind Assist. m (from wall-to-wall).

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BMW unveils production i8 plug-in hybrid; 94 mpg; on sale in US in 2014 priced from $135,925

Green Car Congress

The lower accelerated mass in the event of a crash means that energy-absorbing structures can be scaled back, cutting the weight of the vehicle. Statistically, this is the area that absorbs the least energy in the event of a crash, and the vehicle shows barely any deformation here as a result.

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