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Seven-day test: 2024 Audi RS e-tron GT, now with $100,000 price cut?

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Cheapest is at a Tasmanian Audi dealer showing just 495km – it may have only been charged once in its short life. Complicating matters is Audi last month teasing prototypes of a facelifted 2025 e-tron GT , likely to be spearheaded by a new Performance version based on the ludicrous 815kW/1340Nm Porsche Taycan Turbo GT.

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Hyundai’s electric air taxi flying cars land in 2028, but does humanity want them?

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We’re told flying cars/taxis are a solution to congested urban roads, but anyone who has had their peace – and privacy – shattered by a little video drone whining overhead will likely shudder at the thought of giant people-carrying ones darkening our skies. But it’s polarising technology.

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Road Test: 2023 Maserati Grecale Modena Mild Hybrid

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A Welcoming Interior You’re surrounded by luxury features Luxury and upscale? The 12-way heated and ventilated power sport seats, carbon fiber, piano black, satin-finished accents and the analog center-dash clock added posh touches. Check and check for the great looking and smelling 2023 Grecale Modena interior.

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Driven: Mercedes-Benz EQE sedan range

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Its short overhangs, “one-bow line” profile and stretched wheelbase take some getting used to, while a strange shut line from the A-pillar – part of a sealed bonnet – and external flap to re-fill the windscreen washer reservoir don’t help. Inside, a 12.8-inch What don’t you get?

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Tesla Model Y Rear-Wheel Drive vs Tesla Model Y Performance: Which electric SUV is for you?

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But today, we’re pitting the two siblings against each other to see which of Tesla’s Model Y variants is right for you. The Performance also gets a small carbon fibre lip spoiler. Plus the Lighting menu has a virtual switch to activate the front foglights.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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Appendix E: PHEV and the Electrical Grid—fast charge v. slow charge. The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace. Appendix B: Car of the Future: A Comparison of Alternative Vehicles.

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Driving the VW e-Golf; strategy, assembly in Wolfsburg, Braunschweig battery plant

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Hinze is the engineer in charge of the rollout of the e-Golf and e-up!). The Golf offers the CCS charging system, enabling both AC and DC fast charging. kW charge to 100% SOC will take about 8 hours; a DC fast charge to 80% SOC will take about 30 minutes. Å koda, as one example, will be offering a plug-in hybrid.

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