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Road Test: 2021 Volvo XC90 Recharge T8 PHEV

Clean Fleet Report

The company plans to do it with a mixture of all-electric vehicles, like the new XC40 Recharge, and plug-in hybrid versions of its SUVs and sedans. The XC90 Recharge is an example of the second group. If you’re in the market for a luxury ride, it feels worth it. Moving towards more juice.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. Purveyors of EVs would have a new public-policy rationale backing up their market. And indeed, that’s how promoters of vehicle-to-grid technology perceive the EV.

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Stuff We Use: What’s the Best Battery Booster Pack?

The Truth About Cars

Like so many of you, most of our properties house at least one vehicle which won’t start on the first try, to say nothing of the random boxes of junkyard detritus accumulated through years of vehicular mayhem.& Even if the pack was fully charged, it would not awaken to provide juice to the car in question. &

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Flash Drive: 2023 Toyota Corolla Cross Hybrid

Clean Fleet Report

Flash Drive: 2023 Toyota Corolla Cross Hybrid 40+ MPG Small SUV Starting Under $30,000 Another notch in Toyota’s hybrid belt The Toyota Corolla is one of the best-selling vehicles in the world and Toyota is the largest seller of hybrid vehicles in the world. The recharging process can be viewed on a dash gauge.

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2025 GWM Cannon Alpha PHEV review: plus-sized plug-in dual cab on Aussie soil

EV Central

four-cylinder turbo petrol’s backed by an electric motor, delivering 300kW and 750Nm combined if there’s juice in the battery. While we all like a bit of luxe, it’d be savvy to scale back some of the niceties to enable a lower, more appealing price for this PHEV on our market. 2024 GWM Cannon Alpha PHEV.

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AI Plays Key Role in EV Charger Deployment and More

Blink Charging

AI, of course, stands for artificial intelligence and you know EV as our favorite little acronym for electric vehicles. AI and EV are working together to help the USA. But, how is AI helping with EVs in the United States of America (and other countries)? In many ways, actually. Charger Deployment. Trip Planning.

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

Clean Fleet Report

Of course, most owners of EVs use their vehicles in a local environment and, those that can, charge their vehicle’s battery overnight at home or during the day at work. Since it was not a Level 2 charger, I knew it would not gain much juice overnight. Nowadays the biggest concern is finding a charging station when needed.

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