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Alibaba’s One Wheeled Magic! Single Wheeled Electric Motor Cycle

Get Electric Vehicle

We have been continuously talking about the perks and advantages Electric vehicles bring to the table such as, being environment friendly, cost-effectiveness, less maintenance, etc and we all are familiar with these advantages electric vehicles have over conventional gasoline-powered vehicles. The Design.

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Consumer Reports Says EVs Less Reliable Than Traditional Automobiles

The Truth About Cars

Consumer Reports has concluded its annual car reliability survey and the resulting data for 2023 has not been kind to all-electric vehicles. However, standard hybrids actually outperformed every other group with 26 percent fewer problems than vehicles wholly reliant on gasoline. It makes sense from an engineering perspective.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The concept behind V2G had gained traction in the late 1990s after California’s landmark zero-emission-vehicle (ZEV) mandate went into effect and compelled automakers to commercialize electric cars. AC Propulsion’s experiment was timely.

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We drove the 500hp electric Arc Sport and holy heck, this thing rips

Baua Electric

Arc has built the first models of its much-anticipated Arc Sport 500hp electric wake boat, and we got a chance to take it for a quick demo in Long Beach, CA and holy heck, this thing rips. Arc is a very new company – it was founded in 2021 in Los Angeles, and is targeting the luxury boat market with high-powered electric boats.

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On National Golf Cart Day (seriously), here’s 10 ways they beat cars

Baua Electric

Once powered by polluting combustion engines, these days, most golf carts use quiet and emissions-free electric motors, charging up their batteries for mere pennies and offering plenty of around-the-town range. Ultimately though, these ARE electric vehicles, they just aren’t $50,000 Teslas.

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Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

My Electric Car

Proponents believe such a car could be easily refuelled with hydrogen and assumed it would have greater range than a pure all-electric car. Little seems developed in any wide commercial sense and certainly not to the extent of the pure electric car. It is important to realize that a fuel cell car is actually an electric car.

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Road Test: 2021 GMC Sierra 1500 Duramax 4WD Crew Cab AT4 CarbonPro

Clean Fleet Report

Not enough can be said about how excellent the General Motors 3.0L The electric-assisted steering had good road feel with responsiveness and little body roll in most cornering situations. About those radio knobs and the climate control wheels: they are constructed using a cheap-feeling chromed plastic. at a very low 1,500 rpm.

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