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Mercedes Charts Electric Course for Vans, Bringing Luxocruisers Stateside

The Truth About Cars

Mercedes-Benz refers to them as “privately positioned midsize luxury vans”, referring not to the position of ones privates whilst driving the things but rather the intent of these vans to serve as luxury transportation for humans. First, the people carriers. Specifics on the VAN.EA

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Charged EVs

If you don’t build something like that, people can’t refer to it. This project is currently at the stage of conducting grid readiness assessments.] They’ve also got a site at the Port of Long Beach and a couple others in the LA area. They thought through all those problems: Where should the charge port be?

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The Big Picture

Cars That Think

The 29-seater bus is also designed to serve as a mobile emergency power source that can plug into the grid during outages. But that’s exactly the case being made by SpinLaunch, a startup based in Long Beach, Calif., Last year, four of them were put into service in Japan’s first-ever all-electric public transit loop, in Kyoto.

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