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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

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In Germany, renewable electricity generation will be 35 percent by 2020, and 50 percent by 2050. Why then do we not have the same clarity of goal for the electricity generating industry here in the USA? The same can be said for the electricity companies that generate power in the USA. EIA projections of renewables penetration.

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How Efficient Is Your EV? It’s Complicated

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With motor sports moving hard and fast toward electric drive, a friend recently told me that electric drag-car racing just wouldn't be the same without the deafening roar of combustion engines and the smell of "nitro" fuel. So perhaps it isn't too early to start getting nostalgic about our gas guzzlers. She's 90 years old.

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Mitsubishi shows XR-PHEV concept at LA Show

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The powertrain features a front engine/front-wheel drive gasoline-powered 1.1-liter liter inline-3-cylinder turbocharged engine (134 hp/100 kW) paired with a compact electric motor (161 hp/121 kW) with a high-boost converter and a main drive lithium-ion battery pack with storage capacity of 14 kWh (located beneath the floor of the cabin).

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Volkswagen provides first technical details of Gen 8 Passat, including plug-in hybrid drive; multiple new assistance systems

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They include systems such as Active Info display (a completely digital instrument cluster); extendable head-up display; new Rear Seat Entertainment; Front Assist with City Emergency Braking and Pedestrian Monitoring; Emergency Assist (vehicle stops in emergency); Trailer Assist (assisted maneuvering with a trailer); and Traffic Jam Assist.

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Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

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For $100 million in one year, we’ll demonstrate how to rapidly reduce use of oil in transportation with safe, warrantied retrofits of tens of millions gas-guzzlers. We now have a sprinkling of promising companies working to get funded to convert gas-guzzlers. In the key area of transportation, we submit our Drive Star proposal.

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News: 2024 Ariel Hipercar EV

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The old gas version was a gas. More info is at [link]. Single Motor: Rear Wheel Drive. 590 horsepower 664 pound-feet of torque. Four Motors: All Wheel Drive. 1,180 horsepower 1,327 pound-feet of torque 0-60 under 2.09 seconds; 100 mph in 4.4 Pricing and Availability. The Arial Hipercar EV is projected go on sale in 2024.

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VW unveils Cross Coupe GTE plug-in hybrid concept SUV at Detroit show; 70 mpge; previewing 7-seater SUV in 2016

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The Cross Coupe GTE plug-in hybrid system has a maximum output of 355 hp (265 kW) and features an all-wheel-drive system that uses an “electric driveshaft”. liter VR6 gasoline engine and two electric motors. The two electric motors produce 54 hp and 162 lb-ft (front) and 114 hp and 199 lb-ft (rear). Click to enlarge.

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