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Tesla range lawsuit, electric Minis, Nikola, and biogas: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Mini may go all-electric with its next generation of models. Startup heavy truckmaker Nikola won a federal grant to improve fuel cells. And a European project worked out how to get as much range and efficiency from natural-gas engines as from gasoline. Tesla faces a lawsuit over lost range in some older models.

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NC Transportation Center

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The school already conducts research into the development of the no-gas vehicles. Mike Easley said Tuesday that, depending on the support from federal grants, the state may give $5 million to start and $1 million annually to operate the Advanced Transportation Energy Center there. liter turbocharged gasoline engine."