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All-hybrid Toyotas, Lightyear One solar roof, cooler charging cables: Today?s Car News

Green Car Reports

Toyota has introduced new versions of the Venza utility vehicle and Sienna minivan, and they’re hybrid exclusive this time. The Lightyear One is one step closer with a production deal for its solar roof. And new high-power charging cables can handle more miles per minute and keep cool. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Used Tesla prices, Pacifica Hybrid recall, electric mail vans, solar energy jobs: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Today, electric postal vans, jobs in renewable energy, better used Tesla prices, and a plug-in hybrid minivan recall. Coal has been in the news quite a lot lately, but jobs in solar energy. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Kia has its first customer for its funky Duplo-like EV: Uber

Baua Electric

Kia’s new modular electric vehicle concept – that goes from micro-car to minivan to small truck to full-sized van – introduced at CES has its first customer: Uber. Photo credit: Courtesy of Kia If you’re an electric vehicle owner, charge up your car at home with rooftop solar panels. Get started here.

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Chrysler Group partnering with NextEnergy to evaluate vehicle-to-grid technology

Green Car Congress

Chrysler Group is working with NextEnergy to evaluate vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology using four all-electric minivans. The battery-powered minivans are connected to a charging module that, using NextEnergy technology, can simulate any electrical grid in the world. Final results will be compiled later this year.

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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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Road Test: 2021 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid Limited

Clean Fleet Report

Clean Fleet Report was driving the highly optioned Limited, which had the standard solar panel roof that charges the 12-volt and hybrid batteries, producing two miles of electric driving range for every six hours the car is left in the sun. doesn’t have a ranking system for the cars, crossovers, minivans and trucks we review.

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Thankful To Be Home — And ALIVE!

Creative Greenius

At exactly at 11:15 on the nose, a Honda Odyssey minivan pulled to a stop in front of me – the side door opened and a young voice belonging to someone inside said “Put this on, and get inside.” ” – a hand reached out of the backseat holding a Trader Joe’s shopping bag.

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