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VW electric convertible, Volvo C40 Recharge debut, Nissan e-Hybrid efficiency: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

Volvo reveals the first EV for its lineup that won’t get a gasoline equivalent. And VW teases the idea of an electric Cabriolet. Nissan hits a 50% thermal efficiency with an engine set for hybrid duty. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. There aren’t any mass-market convertible electric cars.

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Cross-County Electric-Car Trips: Reality For A Few, Getting Closer For Many

Green Car Reports

The idea of traveling long distances in electric cars that have to be recharged after only 70 or 80 miles--or even 250 miles--may seem absurd to some. DON''T.'

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Why you might be charging your EV wrong – and what to do instead

Baua Electric

Tesla Supercharger (Source: Tesla) Many EV drivers carry over habits from driving gasoline cars when they charge EVs, but that leads to wasted time, inconvenience, and range anxiety, according to a new study. They interviewed EV users in both Sweden and the US and found unanticipated and previously unreported EV charging habits and ideas.

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2022 Ford F-150 Lightning First Drive: Ford’s most valued model is now electric

Charged EVs

Lower-line Lightnings use the 12-inch horizontal display from high-end gasoline F-150s. We surmise Ford was startled at the degree to which this idea propelled the truck’s popularity. Still, it’s a use for EVs that gasoline trucks can’t duplicate, one that justifiably seized public attention. Photos by John Voelcker.

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RIKEN team develops high-performance lithium-iodine battery system with higher energy density than conventional Li-ion

Green Car Congress

The reversible redox reaction without the formation of resistive solid products promotes rechargeability, demonstrating 100 cycles with negligible capacity fading. kWh l -1 cell ) by 2030 to enable electric vehicles to extend the driving range to a comparable level with gasoline-powered internal combustion engine vehicles (ca.

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Li-ion Reserve in the World: How it Revolutionised the EV Industry

Get Electric Vehicle

Back then the rivals of an electric vehicle such as gasoline-powered and steam-powered personnel carriers or cars were very difficult to operate. On the other hand, the gasoline-powered vehicles were also in trouble because of the trail of exhaust gas, the gear shifting, and the cranking required to start the engine. The Great Fall.

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There’s a Queue Coming for Tesla Charging, and That’s OK

Cars That Think

And the entire industry is facing up to the essential nature of charger interoperability: the idea that every car must connect with every charger, with zero hassle, just as internal-combustion cars can pull up to most any pump. Shell, by the way, currently serves about 30 million gasoline customers a day at some 46,000 retail stations.

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