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FirstElement Fuel’s California hydrogen network receives $24M from Mitsui and Air Liquide; quadrupling its retail capacity

Green Car Congress

Private investments such as those announced today, represent a tremendous opportunity to accelerate California’s transition to a zero-emission transportation market, which in turn helps the state meet its air quality standards and achieve its climate change goals. —California Energy Commission Vice Chair, Janea A.

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At the EV Crossroads

Clean Fleet Report

It’s unusual to find two relatively equivalent vehicles offering a choice of gas or electric fuel. A PHEV is a dual-drive vehicle, but is either a gas-powered car carrying around an electric motor and load of batteries to assist it or an EV lugging a heavy gas engine in case it runs out of battery. Actually, a funny aside.

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Flash Drive: 2023 Lucid Air Touring AWD

Clean Fleet Report

This 160-mile drive spotlighted the handling, driving characteristics and performance. In our mixed driving, which had significant motor regeneration due to mountain elevation and tight curves, we averaged 4 miles per kilowatt-hour (kWh). Wireless phone charging and Bluetooth are standard.

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Electric Car Charging Stations: 6 Easy Steps To Test Your Range Anxiety (Before Buying An EV)

EV Life

If you have home charging, it’s a bit like parking your car at the gas station every night, and starting each day completely refueled. Most electric car charging cables can be plugged into any standard electric wall outlet that one would use to charge a smartphone. miles from my apartment has a DC Fast Charger. Level 1 charging.

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We drove the 500hp electric Arc Sport and holy heck, this thing rips

Baua Electric

Wake boats have been growing in popularity lately, both for standard boating activities and for wakeboarding/wakesurfing. The Sport is also capable of 225kW CCS DC charging, for the few marinas that have installed DC fast chargers (there’s one in Tahoe ). And it’s a lot cheaper to fuel than paying marina rates for gasoline.

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Road Test: 2021 Hyundai Palisade Calligraphy AWD

Clean Fleet Report

Front- wheel drive is standard, with an optional on-demand all-wheel drive system. In 297 miles of mostly freeway driving through Southern California we averaged 22.1 mpg, but did a bit better on a 207-mile freeway run with the smart cruise control set at 65 mph, achieving 25.1 Powertrain – 10 years/100,000 miles.

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Road Test: 2022 Kia Carnival SX

Clean Fleet Report

In 236 miles of driving through Southern California, and using the adaptive cruise control when on the freeway, we averaged 26.7 The dual screen entertainment system, located on the backside of the front seats, was standard on the SX trim. Powertrain – 10 years/100,000 miles. Basic – Five years/60,000 miles.

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