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Autonomy orders 23,000 EVs from 17 automakers; $1.2B order covers 45 EV models

Green Car Congress

Autonomy’s order was placed with the fleet departments of the following automakers: BMW, Canoo, Fisker, Ford, General Motors, Hyundai, Kia, Lucid, Mercedes-Benz, Polestar, Rivian, Stellantis, Subaru, Tesla, Toyota, VinFast, Volvo and Volkswagen. Battery Range: 250 miles minimum (with some exceptions). Telematics: Fully connected.

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

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Tesla, Volvo, Mercedes (Daimler), BMW, Audi, GM, Ford, Nissan, Toyota and others are now delivering cars with some of these features and developing cars with all of these. You Can Buy Level 2 Today. My test parallel park of Ford Escape was a breeze when the SUV parked itself. Features are paving the way to self-driving cars.

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Flash Drive: 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV RST

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Freeway time can be much more enjoyable, and relaxing, by activating Super Cruise that allows the driver to travel more than 400,000 miles on compatible roads. And since you can travel 440 miles without recharging, why wouldn’t you take a Silverado EV on that family road trip?

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TTAC's Best Cars of 2023

The Truth About Cars

It’s the car I drove this year that I most likely can see myself buying for, uh, myself. 2024 Ford Mustang Dark Horse: I drove this at the same event where I drove the Type S, and since I am a sucker for muscular pony cars, I was enamored right away. Were Ford to iron out some of the kinks, this would be a truly magnificent vehicle.

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Road Test: 2021 Polestar 2

Clean Fleet Report

Polestar also offers a convenient home delivery and service program, allowing customers who live within 150 miles of the Valley Fair Space, meaning from San Francisco in the north to Monterey Bay Peninsula in the south, to have a new car delivered to their door, as well as complimentary roundtrip transportation for future servicing.

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Advocating electric in the heartland

Electric Auto Association

You buy your own solar panels, you power your house and your car, and the utility wants to get paid for your doing that.” Clyde Schwanke’s backyard in Topeka, complete with his Nissan LEAF and Ford C=max Plugin. Sure, if you have a Tesla with a 300-mile range and you’re using the highways, it’s a different story.”

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Univ of Utah studies find up to 27 seconds of mental distraction for drivers after using new hands-free technologies

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One of the studies showed that it is highly distracting to use hands-free voice commands to dial phone numbers, call contacts, change music and send texts with Microsoft Cortana, Apple Siri and Google Now smartphone personal assistants, though Google Now was a bit less distracting than the others. and Toyota 4Runner with Entune (2.9).

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