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Ford Looks to Extended-Range EVs to Juice Demand

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The Blue Oval will look to extended-range EVs (EREVs) as a way to electrify future SUVs and pickups, including the Super Duty brand. Ram will be the first back to market with an EREV, as the Ram 1500 Ramcharger is set to offer 690 miles of range when it arrives later this year.

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As EV Sales Stall, Plug-In Hybrids Get a Reboot

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Theyre delaying their EV plans, rejiggering factories, and acknowledging what some clear-eyed observers (including IEEE Spectrum ) suspected all along: Not every car buyer is ready or able to ditch the internal-combustion engine entirely, stymied by high EV prices or unnerved by a patchy, often-unreliable charging infrastructure.

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GM taps LG for Volt Battery

Revenge of the Electric Car

says any OEM worth its salt will want multiple suppliers, since relying on only one would put the company at a strategic disadvantage, should the battery maker decide to bail or raise prices. It’s all in how they market them. Ron Freund, president of the Electric Auto Assoc., Having two suppliers would help drive costs down.

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Ford, Volkswagen, and GM Explore EV-Powered Houses

Cars That Think

The ratio of marketing and expectations to intake of real-world information is still steep. And plenty of technology remains left to be worked out: including the complex supporting infrastructure, business models, and various forms of electric plugs and chargers, alongside their sometimes confounding range of pin configurations.

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Here's all the new electric cars or EVs coming to Australia in 2021

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The sister vehicle to the Porsche Taycan, the Audi RS e-Tron GT is the first Audi RS model to go fully-electric, beating rivals BMW M and Mercedes-AMG to market with emissions-free motoring. The all-wheel drive layout channels a 342kW and 830Nm outputs of a 75.7kWh lithium-ion battery (a 98.8kWh extended driving range battery is available).

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Therefore, until we get quick-charge batteries -- based on new breakthroughs, Ill take a WAG and estimate that we will have real 5-minute quick-charge batteries in perhaps 10 years -- we are likely to get our juice mostly from our home chargers. Read reviews, get free pricing, and much more. Looking for a better auto insurance rate?

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Rapid Charging Electric Cars: How Fast, How Soon?

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

For on-the-go juice ups, the idea is to exchange your dead battery for a fresh one owned by Better Place. Extended-range electric vehicles — such as the Chevy Volt, which GM says will recharge in three hours — offer another route, adding a small gas engine to keep drivers from feeling stranded without access to fuel.