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Renault debuts Scenic electrical compact SUV, with 620-km dimension

Baua Electric

MUNICH — Renault has introduced its first full-electric compact SUV with the Scenic E-Tech, providing greater than 620 km (385 miles) of dimension with two battery and two motor possible choices. The Scenic nameplate used to be worn for greater than 25 years as a minivan variant of the Megane.

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TTAC's Worst Cars of 2023

The Truth About Cars

Nissan Pathfinder: Argh. While it’s not as legendary of a nameplate as other icons of motoring, the Pathfinder was once a rugged body-on-frame SUV that could go just about anywhere, it’s now a minivan without the utility of a minivan. That it’s such a massive vehicle and yet has but four seats is inexcusable, too.

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Junkyard Find: 1987 Toyota Conversion Van

The Truth About Cars

Chrysler revolutionized the American family-hauler world in the 1984 model year when the Plymouth Voyager and Dodge Caravan minivans first appeared. Most of the Toyota Vans I find in these places have a lot more miles than this on their odometers. The red-and-silver two-tone paint looks sharp with these pinstripes.

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Road Test: 2022 Kia Carnival SX

Clean Fleet Report

Goodbye To the Minivan. Kia is out of the minivan business and is shaking up things with the all-new 2022 Carnival. The Korean car company will remind you it is not a minivan but an MPV or Multi-Purpose Vehicle. With those words it hopes to remove the stigma of people saying “I will never own a minivan.”. Drivetrain.

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IIHS: small car driver death rates remain high

Green Car Congress

While the death rates are adjusted for driver age and gender, they don’t capture other factors that might influence fatality rates, such as the speeds people drive, the number of miles they travel per day and the types of roads they use. Death rates for pickups trended lower by miles driven.

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EPA Trends on EVs and PHEVs; beginning of a “measurable and meaningful impact” on new vehicle fuel economy and emissions

Green Car Congress

The Trends report has been published annually since 1975 and covers all passenger cars, sport utility vehicles, minivans, and all but the largest pickup trucks and vans. Overall fuel economy (miles per gallon gasoline equivalent) and average tailpipe + net upstream CO 2 emissions for EVs and PHEVs in 2014 Trends report.

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Who will be in the driver’s seat?

Electric Auto Association

Later, I educated myself on the many benefits of going all electric and we ordered our Nissan LEAF online in 2010.” Mothers are driving the kids, the dog, and lots of stuff around town and there haven’t been a lot of electric minivans. From there, the couple leased a Mercedes B-Class Electric, followed by a Honda Clarity EV.