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Tesla Inside: The Ultimate Vintage Land Rover Retrofit

Cars That Think

From the outside, this Land Rover Defender looks like any other example of the postwar British classic that conquered the African outback—and the automotive world’s heart. recently adopted for standard-range Teslas in the United States). Non-NAS Rovers were never officially “federalized” to meet U.S.

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4 Classic Car Relaunches Transforming the EV Landscape

Clean Fleet Report

The electric-powered version of its 1970 model features a conversion kit with a battery shaped like a cassette. The battery will eliminate the standard 4.6 ECD Land Rover Defender 110 The classic square edges and straight lines of the Land Rover Defender can join your fleet of green vehicles in the coming years.

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Automotive Grade Linux releases latest version of open infotainment platform

Green Car Congress

is an open-source infotainment platform positioned as a de facto industry standard. AGL is also releasing a software development kit (SDK) that enables rapid application development on the AGL platform. Developed through a joint effort by dozens of member companies, the AGL Unified Code Base (UCB) 3.0 As part of UCB 3.0,

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Putting the “Utility” in Sport Utility Vehicle: Which Electric SUVs Perform Best Off-Road?

EV Life

The second reason EV crossovers are so popular with automakers is the vehicle classification standards put forth by the Treasury Department to determine whether a vehicle is a car, SUV, truck, or van. Model Trim Horsepower 0-60mph Torque Est. Range Dual Motor AWD 533 hp 4.5 sec 610 lb-ft 260-400 miles Performance AWD 665 hp 3.5

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Tata Motors shows CNG, diesel-electric hybrid and fuel cell concepts at Auto Expo 2012 in India, unveils 3 new production vehicles

Green Car Congress

CNG kit components have been applied to the bi-fuel CNG Tata Nano. Among them is Jaguar Land Rover. They will be commercially launched in the next financial year. Tata Nano CNG Concept. The sequential gas injection system has been calibrated with the EMS system for smart switching between CNG and gasoline fuel systems.

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New EV electric car calendar

EV Central

General Motor eCrate conversion kits – by late 2021 GM plans to offer battery and motor kits for classic cars, allowing an easy EV conversion. Ineos Grenadier hydrogen fuel cell – rugged and capable Land Rover Defender lookalike has hydrogen in its future following tie-up with Hyundai. 2021 INEOS Grenadier.