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Juiced unveils new folding e-bike that may be the fastest and most powerful ever

Baua Electric

Juiced Bikes has never shied away from offering riders more speed and power. And with today’s unveiling of its new Juiced JetCurrent Pro, the brand is offering up more speed and power than ever in a brand new e-bike form factor. When I first got into e-bikes back in 2010 or so, Juiced was already rolling around as a leading brand.

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Tale of Two 2,000-mile EV Rural Road Trips

Clean Fleet Report

Tale of Two 2,000-mile EV Rural Road Trips A Two-Country Kia EV6 Experience Last year I set out to see what it would be like to take a couple of long road trips in a Kia EV6–one in the UK and the other in the U.S. Fortunately it’s becoming less of an issue now the newest EVs have a range of up to 300 miles on a full battery charge.

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Geländewagen, Electrified: Mercedes-Benz G 580 with EQ Technology

The Truth About Cars

Surely there is a marketing group armed with focus group data deep in the bowels of Stuttgart who can answer that question with an appropriate level of PR bluster. A 116-kWh lithium-ion battery provides the juice but Merc isn’t yet spilling any tea about expected driving range on a full charge. A sprint from 0–60 mph is said to take 4.7

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Ford unveils F-150 Lightning electric pickup; starting at $39,974; arriving in 2022

Green Car Congress

F-150 Lightning offers a standard-range battery targeting 230 miles of EPA-estimated range and an extended-range battery targeting 300 miles of EPA-estimated range. —Kumar Galhotra, Ford president, Americas and International Markets Group, Ford Motor Company. 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning Platinum, Lariat, XLT. America’s No.

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Fiat Introduces 600e Across the Pond

The Truth About Cars

The very Italian marque Fiat continues to roll out new products – in markets not named North America, of course. The brand says its 600e packs a 54-kWh battery good for about 400 kilometers – about 250 miles – of range, though that’s on the endlessly optimistic WLTP cycle. A hybrid variant is in the works, apparently.

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Junkyard Find: 1987 Chevrolet Sprint ER

The Truth About Cars

What was the most fuel-efficient (mass-produced, internal combustion-powered, highway-legal, non-gray-market, four-wheeled, et freakin' cetera) new car available in the United States during the 1980s? If you want to be picky, the 198 6 Sprint ER was the gas-mileage king of 1980s America, rated at 44 city and 53 highway miles per gallon.

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SDG&E to Test Mobile Smart Charging Device for Plug-ins

Green Car Congress

San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) will test and evaluate a mobile smart charging device for plug-in electric vehicles developed by Juice Technologies LLC. SDG&E and Juice Technologies presented a prototype of the Juice Technologies Plug Smart intelligent charging device at the Plug-In 2009 Conference in Long Beach, CA.

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