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

The Truth About Cars

Electrification has crept like a static-filled blanket over the Mercedes shop floor, consuming just about every major model in a wide variety of segments in which the German automaker is present – although it must be said that, for now, there are plenty of gassers from which to select. A sprint from 0–60 mph is said to take 4.7

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Ford Revises Dealer EV Requirements

The Truth About Cars

Dealers apparently argued that slow Level 2 chargers were more than sufficient to keep new EVs full of juice for test drives.& If that caveat is not present, there’s every chance in the world those chargers - placed by unwilling dealers who also surely complain about giving away free electricity – will be deader than disco in no time.

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Leveraging Parking Lot Solar Panels for EV Charging

Clean Fleet Report

Can Solar Panels Produce Enough Juice? Doing so might be practical in the future, but the math doesn’t add up at present. Those considering investing in EVs could soon enjoy a comfortable, covered spot that tops off their juice. It’s now or never if humans hope to prevent the mercury from increasing by 1.5°

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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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Chromatin announces dual-purpose hybrid sorghum for sugar and bioenergy production

Green Car Congress

Chromatin’s SweetFuel hybrids are designed to capture the value of sugars produced in sorghum juice as well as the additional value of the energy stored in biomass or bagasse.

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The Grand Tour's "Sand Job," Nothing to See Here, I'm Afraid

The Truth About Cars

Following last summer’s “ Eurocrash ,” the maturely titled “Sand Job” sends the trio of presenters to an all-new location to tread upon content ground they’ve crossed many times previously. Sand Job” takes the presenters to the remote and little-viewed country of Mauritania, located in the northeast corner of Africa southwest of Algeria.

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Oben Rorr electrical bike deliveries start

Baua Electric

The primary bundle of consumers had been additionally presented unique products on the ‘First to Rorr’ (F2R) match. It takes about two hours to be juiced as much as complete. It has already delivered 25 gadgets of the efficiency e-motorcycle to consumers at an match at its production facility positioned in Jigani, Bengaluru.