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First drive review: 2021 BMW 330e plug-in hybrid hits the right numbers but shuns its sport-sedan heritage

Green Car Reports

“OK Boomer,” jeered BMW last November, in a social-media ad for its first fully electric SUV, the iX. The brand once owned the sport-sedan. It was a reference to an already outdated meme that feels so last-decade now.

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Porsche Cayenne e-Hybrid: Plug-In Porsche Due 2014?

Green Car Reports

Porsche already offers a hybrid variant of its sports SUV, the Cayenne, but it's more about stemming the car's massive thirst than it is a truly green vehicle. A plug-in hybrid version coinciding with a mid-cycle update around 2014 could offer a much more gas-sipping option, however.

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Toyota RAV4 Prime: Green Car Reports' Best Car To Buy 2021 finalist

Green Car Reports

It’s Toyota’s first plug-in SUV since the “powered by Tesla” RAV4 EV from earlier last decade. It’s the quickest-accelerating vehicle in Toyota’s lineup, excluding its sports cars. The Toyota RAV4 Prime is all sorts of things, all at once.

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Lamborghini Plug-In Supercar Nixed, But Plug-In Hybrid Urus SUV Is On

Green Car Reports

The Italian supercar maker Lamborghini has abandoned any plans to use a plug-in hybrid powertrain in its sports cars in the near future. But instead it’s doubling down on the technology, and looking to use it where it might be best appreciated by the market: in its upcoming Urus sport-utility vehicle.

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Lotus is the latest automaker to fall for extended-range plug-in hybrids

Baua Electric

And now Lotus is abandoning its strategy to become an all-electric brand by 2028 and shifting over to extended-range plug-in hybrid models starting in 2026. Lotus , has been mixing in some “lifestyle” EVs, including an SUV, to its sports-car lineup, but has struggled to meet its volume targets, Automotive News Europe reports.

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2024 Leapmotor C10 review: Can this cheaper alternative to the Model Y tempt you from a Tesla?

EV Central

READ MORE: Jump for joy: New Leapmotor C16 could provide Aussie families with a cut-price seven seat battery-electric SUV But to do half a million, it would need more than China. Its first global product is this C10 — a Tesla Model Y -sized electric SUV that offers oodles of space, and plenty of value. MG , GWM , BYD. Ok, we know them.

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EVs at last! VW finally goes wild for electric cars in Australia, with the ID. Buzz GTX hot MPV the headline act

EV Central

7 GTX unleashed as VW chases down the Tesla Model 3 Performance The drenching begins with medium EV SUVs, with the ID.4 It sports an 80kW/134Nm front motor and lusty 210kW/560Nm rear motor, combining for a VW Golf R-bettering 250kW and proper wallops of torque. In other confirmed news, the medium SUVs ID. Headlining is the ID.

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