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Mercedes-Benz VISION EQXX covers more than 621 miles on single charge

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Traveling from Sindelfingen across the Swiss Alps and Northern Italy, to its destination of Cassis on the Côte d’Azur, the VISION EQXX electric concept ( earlier post ) from Mercedes-Benz covered more than 1,000 km (621 miles) in everyday traffic on a single battery charge. kWh per 100 kilometers (7.1 kWh per 62 miles).

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10 best electric bicycles you can get

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Public transportation can waste time unless you live in a city with a great system, and even then it can be a messy, overpacked ordeal. Top speed: 20 mph (32 km/h). The journey will also be far from being a turtle-pace as this 154-lb (70 kg) bike can go as fast as 50 mph (80 kph). Top speed: 50 mph (80 km/h). What to do?

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Volkswagen’s 1.0L eco up! natural gas vehicle offers 79g CO2/km

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seconds; its top speed is 164 km/h (102 mph). In Germany, the fuel cost per 100 km (62 miles) is just over €3 (US$3.92); in Italy, the largest market for natural gas cars in Europe, the cost is less.). The natural gas version produces its 50 kW output at 6,200 rpm and reaches its maximum torque of 90 N·m (66 lb-ft) at 3,000 rpm.

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China R&D company introduces micro-turbine range extender technology at Geneva

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seconds, 350 km/h (217 mph) restricted top speed). This process sees a proportion of energy wasted during the charging process and increases the time required to charge all cells fully. As a result, the entire pack charges more quickly, and there is no energy wasted in actively discharging the best-performing cells, the company says.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

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Caroline Reichert, an RWE spokeswoman, noted that the idea here is to ensure that "a car can be recharged in Italy in exactly the same way as in Denmark, Germany or France." Nuclear waste is a problem much harder to solve than CO2, and dams have quite an impact in the environment. Saving lives through nuclear power. :p