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An Overview of Jeep’s Current Vehicle Lineup

Clean Fleet Report

It can take you from 0-60 miles per hour in 4.5 seconds and can go a quarter of a mile in about 13 seconds. It sports an impressive 375 horsepower and 470 pounds of torque, on- and off-road. It sports a 5.7L Jeep Wrangler Rubicon The Rubicon brags to have one of the most powerful engines in the market: a 6.4L

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Varley Electric Vehicle introduces the evR-450 supercar

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While the evR-450 is expected to be available soon, Varley will begin taking orders for its sport variant the evS-450 in January 2012. Both the evR-450 and its sport variant are powered by a 24 kWh battery pack, enabling them to travel up to 160 kilometers (99 miles), combined cycle.

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Nobody Knows if the BMW M5 Touring is Coming to America

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They don’t draw quite so much unwanted attention from the authorities issuing speeding tickets and are typically more practical than something that wears its sporting intentions on its sleeve. If that is to be the case, it should offer somewhere around 50 miles of all-electric driving before the 25.7 kWh battery needs to be recharged.

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BMW M introduces its first high-performance car with electrified drive system: BMW XM PHEV

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This originates from its sports exhaust system featuring electronically controlled, continuously adjustable flaps and hexagonal dual tailpipes arranged one above the other for the first time on a BMW M model. The BMW XM sprints from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in 4.3 kWh of usable energy.

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New powertrains for updated BMW X5 and BMW X6; PHEV and 48V MHEV

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BMW presented the extensively updated new editions of its Sports Activity Vehicle (SAV) and Sports Activity Coupé (SAC) for the luxury segment. The electric range of the new BMW X5 xDrive50e is 94 – 110 kilometers (58 – 68 miles) in the WLTP cycle. A new Combined Charging Unit doubles the maximum AC charging rate to 7.4

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BMW to showcase 4 production plug-in hybrids at IAA in Frankfurt; new 225xe

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Maximum all-electric range is 41 kilometers (25 miles). In addition to the Driving Experience Control switch—with its SPORT, COMFORT and ECO PRO settings—familiar from other BMW models, the eDrive button in the center console offers three driving modes: AUTO eDRIVE, MAX eDRIVE and SAVE BATTERY. kWh Li-ion battery pack.

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BMW to introduce BMW 530e iPerformance plug-in hybrid at Detroit show

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The BMW 530e iPerformance has a range of up to 650 kilometers (404 miles) in real-world driving and is capable of covering distances of up to 50 kilometers (31 miles) purely on electric power at a maximum speed of 140 km/h (87 mph). seconds and enable it to reach a top speed of 235 km/h (146 mph). BMW eDrive.

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