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2024 Toyota bZ4X AWD review: Why driving Toyota’s first electric car on dirt is like chucking a Giraffe in a pool … Really

EV Central

The Model Y will travel further, though, claiming 533km between charges, compared to the Toyota’s 411km. While its set up for DC fast charging, it’s limited to 150kW. Anyway, even the cheapest 2WD bZ4X gets things like LED lighting, 20-inch alloys and a powered boot. EV Central plugged in to find out. SCORE: 3.7/5

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2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz Review -- Well-Packaged Style

The Truth About Cars

You can charge up to 200 kW on a DC fast charger, getting from 10 percent to 80 percent fast charging in 26 minutes. You can one-pedal the Buzz if you're not being too aggressive and/or the corners aren't too demanding, and the brakes were smooth and progressive when I did need them. Needless complication confounds.

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Thankful To Be Home — And ALIVE!

Creative Greenius

When the TJ’s bag was finally removed from my head the dim light revealed the packed interior of what turned out to be the inside of a storage unit – The location of which is still a mystery to me. Artist sketch of “Hayduke” “You’re overrunning your headlights kid. “No we’re not.

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Drive Notes: 2024 Acura Integra Type S

The Truth About Cars

Standard features included Brembo front brakes, a head-up display, ELS audio, an adaptive damper system, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, wireless phone charging, and Michelin Pilot Sport 4S summer tires. When you're commuting at a leisurely pace, you get the entry-luxury feel (for the most part, see below). This takes away a seat.

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Kia Niro EV review: All-electric SUV arrives to sit below the EV6

EV Central

The Niro GT-Line EV tested here adds front parking sensors, heated and ventilated front seats, sunroof, head-up display, tinted rear windows, heated steering wheel, auto up/down windows, alloy pedals, ambient lighting, wireless phone charging and an eight-speaker Harman Kardon sound system. And… it’s worked.

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Beach baby! 1971 VW Baja Beetle electromod is the ultimate electric toy

EV Central

I started this thought process as our house batteries are fully charged by eight in the morning, and that’s running full solar on the house,” he says. “So We head out, have a bit of a fish, then plugging it in it’ll only take an hour to charge.” So why not build a Baja I can plug in, rather than buying drums of fuel? Air conditioning?

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Québec moves forward with a zero-emission vehicle standard

Green Car Congress

Automakers that sell or lease a yearly average of more than 4,500 new vehicles (all light models combined) will be subject to the ZEV standard. The target will be calculated by applying a percentage to the total number of light vehicles each manufacturer sells in Québec.

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