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California ARB receives VW’s 1st $200M, 30-month ZEV investment plan

Green Car Congress

ARB is initiating its review of the Plan and is inviting public comment on whether the Plan meets the terms and goals of the 2.0-liter Appendix C outlines four areas of qualified investments: ZEV infrastructure (including the development and maintenance of ZEV charging stations), public awareness, increasing ZEV access, and a green city.

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Flash Drive: 2024 Acura ZDX Type S

Clean Fleet Report

This Flash Drive is an introduction to the ZDX Type S, with Clean Fleet Report doing a more detailed ZDX review when we have had more seat time. But consumers shopping for a performance EV, like it or not, this sprint speed just may be their pacing item for what to buy. Hyundai Ioniq 5 N at 3.1 seconds; Porsche Taycan GTS at 3.4

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Road Test: 2023 Genesis GV60 EV

Clean Fleet Report

I like to get drive impressions from my wife for some of the cars I review. This is saying something, as she has ridden in or driven many of the 800+ cars I have reviewed for Clean Fleet Report over the past 10 years. Each of these are excellent all-electric SUVs (check out review links at the end of this story.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

Cars That Think

Lowe's plan for the PC called for buying existing components and software and bolting them together into a package aimed at the consumer market. He wouldn't show up at product-development review meetings or return phone calls. In reality, customers were buying 200,000 PCs per month by the second year. Then disaster struck.

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Finally, an eVTOL You Can Buy (Soon)

Cars That Think

Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images Making eVTOLs personal. So who might buy it? Ed Lu , a former NASA astronaut and executive at Google, sits on Opener’s safety-review board. A BlackFly eVTOL took off on 1 October, 2022, at the Pacific Airshow in Huntington Beach, Calif. One of them is a business owner.

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Is aviation the best application yet for hydrogen fuel cells?

Charged EVs

My father worked in the oil industry, but his formal education was in aviation maintenance and mechanics back in the Soviet Union, so I got exposed to some of that early on. But we did the overall review—you have jet fuel, you have hydrogen-based solutions, you have battery-based solutions, you have various hybrid solutions.

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Road Test: 2024 Toyota Mirai Limited FCEV

Clean Fleet Report

A Little History It is rare when we post a review of a car that is only available in one of the 50 United States, but things are about to change, hopefully creating more demand for hydrogen fuel and stations. See Clean Fleet Reviews at the end of the story. A maintenance-free car for about $21,000 sounds pretty enticing.

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