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Drop-in electric conversion kit for Land Rover Defender: Make your own electric SUV

Green Car Reports

The conversion kit comes from Electrogenic, a United Kingdom-based company that specializes in electric conversions of classic cars. The current-generation Land Rover Defender doesn't offer an all-electric powertrain, but it's now possible to convert older models to electric power.

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Quantum Navigational Tech Takes Flight in New Trial

Cars That Think

A short-haul aircraft in the United Kingdom recently became the first airborne platform to test delicate quantum technologies that could usher in a post-GPS world—in which satellite-based navigation (be it GPS , BeiDou , Galileo , or others) cedes its singular place as a trusted navigational tool. The big idea Infleqtion and its U.K.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. At that point, we expect the aftermarket companies prices to have come down sufficiently so that their conversions will be attractive to owners of hundreds of thousands of hybrids already on the road. So far, most start as hybrids.

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