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News: 2024 Volkswagen ID.Buzz

Clean Fleet Report

News: 2024 Volkswagen ID.Buzz Reimagining a Classic Surfers and hippies are frequently associated with a mid-century Volkswagen microbus, seen with surfboards on top or flowers painted on the sides, chugging along in the slow lane. We do our best to present our unvarnished evaluations of vehicles and news irrespective of these inducements.

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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

The Truth About Cars

Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. Toyota followed with the Prius a year later, but it took GM until 2006 to introduce its first true gasoline-electric hybrid here. gallon gas in order to recoup its cost over the pure-gazzoline version.

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News: Mazda Joins EV Crowd with MX-30 EV

Clean Fleet Report

Another week, another new electric crossover. That seems to be the story as automakers big and small around the globe try to stake a piece of the market’s move to electric vehicles. It contrasts with the more sculpted look of the current gas-powered CX-30. Mazda deployed the Wankel rotary in models from 1967 through 2002.

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How to protect an EV’s on-board charger from transient grid surges – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Today’s vehicle designs proliferate with sensitive electronics, including electronic controls, infotainment, sensing, battery packs, battery management, electric vehicle powertrains, and on-board chargers. 2002 standard specifies a 6 kV/3 kA surge rating (1b). 2002 Standard 1.2/50 The challenge for design engineers?

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Driving on sunshine

Plug in America

Winter solstice has swept in , and me and my electric vehicle (EV) are taking another trip around the sun—on sunshine! . My ex and I got solar at home on his birthday in 2002, then our first EV, the RAV4, a couple months later, on the winter solstice. And, of course, bypassing the gas station in the process.

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Hasner’s Florida State Electric Car Tax Break Gets Boost

Revenge of the Electric Car

Josh Hafenbrack posts this informative entry covering the status of Hasner’s Florida State electric car tax break on the SunSentinel.com. Florida State Representative (and House Majority Leader) Adam Hasner (R) has just introduced the bill HB 879 - Financial Incentives for Electric Vehicles. Hasner’s electric car tax break gets boost.

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Review: 2024 Chevy Silverado EV RST arrives for civilians

Baua Electric

The 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV full-size electric pickup truck was first delivered in Work Truck specification to fleet buyers nearly a year ago; but only now can civilians take one home. That’s more than any other electric truck on the market, and it should reassure shoppers who can afford one that they won’t run out of range unexpectedly.