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Lessons from a year with solar power

EV Info

With two Electric cars, at the time a Nissan Lean and Mitsubishi Outlander, we use a considerable amount of electricity but not much petrol, so already we were a reasonable way down the less CO2 road. Then as the sun sets in the West, hopefully the battery pack would have enough juice to power the house for the rest of the evening. .

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2023 Kia EV6 GT review: Mega-popular electric vehicle put to the seven-day test

EV Central

If you want to keep the tyre mobility kit and power cable bags in the boot, this also eats into space. Day 4: Juicing Up Despite all my driving fun, I’m still returning just under Kia’s official consumption figure. . “It’s not warm and fuzzy, more a hard, electric future,” I’m told. I shall miss it.

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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

Plug In India

Go to petrol pump owners and find out who are people who are big time consumers. The womenfolk created some sewing kits and embroidery frames. We realised that most Zeon customers are long distance road warriors. The minimum monthly fuel bill that they run up is Rs. 5,000 upwards. Though it sometimes can create funny situations.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

If you build a car as a "kit car" with no real factory, then yes, it will never be an economic success. A simple, clean, efficient EV that wont run out of juice because of its on-board gas generator. Posted by: Mike99 | Apr 13, 2009 6:25:20 PM The EV1 was an engineering Success. The EV1s failure was a failure of Management.

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