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Land Rover to Introduce twin-turbo V8 Defender

The Truth About Cars

Land Rover announced this morning they are stuffing a twin-turbo V8 up the nose of its blocky Defender. Specs are scarce at the moment but it’s worth noting that max attack V8 models currently make 518 horsepower; something in the neighborhood of 600 isn’t out of the question. This will be a mild hybrid mill.

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Tata Workforce to create $5 billion 40 GW battery mobile gigafactory in the United Kingdom to provide JLR

Baua Electric

The Indian conglomerate’s anchor shoppers can be its luxurious automobile arm Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) along side Tata Motors. Our multi-billion pound funding will carry cutting-edge generation to the rustic, serving to to energy the car sector’s transition to electrical mobility, anchored through our personal trade, Jaguar Land Rover.

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Nissan leads with transfer of California ZEV credits out for year ending 30 Sep 2014

Green Car Congress

million vehicles including: more than 500 fuel cell vehicles; 38,000 battery electric vehicles; 29,300 neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs); 30,000 plug-in hybrids; 570,000 hybrids; and 3 million gasoline vehicles. NEV = Neighborhood Electric Vehicle. ZEV = Zero Emission Vehicle, e.g. fuel cell or battery electric.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Alternatively, may we suggest the sound of the neighborhood ice cream truck? Until then, we can always program the ESS to make what Lotus refers to as "more futuristic sounds for electric vehicles [that] can be created using sampled sounds and generated waveforms." We always seem to hear that one coming from a mile away.

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