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How Efficient Is Your EV? It’s Complicated

Cars That Think

Why are we using a constant based on the combustion of gasoline in order to measure the efficiency of an electric car? Why are we using a constant based on the combustion of gasoline in order to measure the efficiency of an electric car? For them, recharge efficiency might be just as important as MPGe rating.

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Road Test: 2021 Polestar 2

Clean Fleet Report

The lines are drawn with a brilliant, clean, and slightly cold aesthetic, and materials are matte and, according to the press info, it’s a fully vegan interior with the WeaveTech fabric and reconstructed wood trim. Just carry the chunky key fob in your pocket and walk up to the car. Inside, the 2021 Polestar 2 shows its Volvo origins.

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Best speakers ever

Electric Auto Association

When that company was bought out by ENEL X , Miftakhov used the substantial profit to launch ZeroAvia in Hollister, California to develop and manufacture fuel cell-powered electric aircraft using green hydrogen (locally produced by electrolysis of water using solar or wind power). Contact membership@myeva.org for more info.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles by Darren Murph , posted Apr 19th 2009 at 4:24PM Just hours after General Motors put forth a proposal for a standardized plug for electric vehicles , in flies this. like people driving futuristic electric cars and everything being clean! yay same plug!

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Cupra Born review: High five for Spanish compact hatch

EV Central

The downside is the drive lasted only five laps of the Haunted Hills race track in Victoria’s LaTrobe Valley on a day when the weather gods decided too much rain, wind and frigid air was never enough. A small digital instrument panel containing key info like speed, range and consumption sits atop the steering column.

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Volkswagen’s first two production battery-electric vehicles debut at Frankfurt

Green Car Congress

Electric cars are essentially equipped with two brake systems independent of each other: a conventional, mechanical, hydraulically operated brake system and the e-motor acting as a motor brake when when recovering energy. In an electric car this number of levels leads to a different way of driving. As a new car the e-up!

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I Battery recharging would typically take two to four hours, he said. Analysts are sanguine about this kind of thing becoming more common — someday.

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