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Paice files complaint against VW Group with ITC alleging hybrid patent infringement

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Paice ( earlier post ), an early developer of hybrid vehicle technology, has filed a complaint against the Volkswagen Group with the US International Trade Commission (ITC). In December 2015, Paice reached an agreement to license all of its hybrid vehicle technology to Hyundai Motor Co.

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Lightning Eyes 10-Minute Charging for its Motorbikes

Cars That Think

That SuperBike topped every internal combustion engine motorcycle en route to a Pikes Peak International Hill Climb win in 2013, on the Colorado gantlet that’s among the world’s highest-profile tech challenges for cars and motorcycles alike. The Lightning holds the landspeed record for street-legal production motorcycles).

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Navigant Research forecasts new EV global sales of > 346,000 units in 2014; 10 predictions for the year

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Broadly, Navigant expects expansion in both the higher end of the market (thereby putting competitive pressure on Tesla Motors), as Audi, BMW, Cadillac, Mercedes, Saab, and Volvo introduce their first plug-in cars. More mainstream models will come from Kia, Mahindra, Škoda, and Volkswagen. Tesla Motors will have a bumpy year.

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Norway leads the world in moving to EVs

EV Info

A recent report printed by the Norwegian Automobile Federation’s magazine, Motor , the downward trend in sales for ICE cars has been so consistent and steep that the last new ICE car to be sold in Norway could happen just seven months from now, in April 2022. 17 Kia e-Niro Electric car 1 674 1.51 Norway made that plan back in 2016.

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What Are The Benefits of Driving an Electric Car?

Drive Electric

Thanks to the instantaneous way power is delivered via an EV’s electric motors, even the most meek of family cars can have surprisingly good performance. Take the incredibly popular Kia E-Niro 2 for example. Since 1st July 2019, it has been a legal requirement for new EVs to be fitted with noise-making devices behind the bumpers.

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Genesis GV60 review: Compact SUV a milestone for Korean luxury maker

EV Central

It is one of three new Genesis EVs to be launched in September , but it’s the first to be based on Hyundai’s E-GMP EV architecture, which means there’s no internal combustion version of the five-door coupe SUV in existence. Both GV60s are dual motor all-wheel drives with very similar levels of comfort and safety equipment.

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