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9 Places to See the Summer Olympics Without Setting Foot in Paris

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Here are some ideas for planning your own alternative Olympic trip. Emilion, about 27 miles away, where you can sample great wines. Or check out the nearly 340-foot-high Dune du Pilat , the tallest sand dune in Europe — about 37 miles southwest of Bordeaux, near the beach town of Arcachon. Lille Basketball: July 27 to Aug.

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2023 Jeep Wrangler 4xe Rubicon Review – Charged-Up Jeep

The Truth About Cars

In other words, if for some reason the idea of a PHEV Wrangler bothers you, relax. Now you can run it solely on electric power for up to 21 miles and plug it in to charge. So while other SUVs might get dinged for these things, we chalk it up to part of the experience. Yes, you get a plug-in hybrid setup. They’re supposed to be.

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Road Rally Review: Driving a Volkswagen ID. Buzz for 5,000 miles through Europe

The Truth About Cars

Buzz on a 7,500 km (4,660-mile) road rally through nine European countries in 16 days as part of the Baltic Sea Circle Rally. We knew it could be done with careful planning and plenty of patience, even with the van’s modest 263-mile range. Buzz was easy to juice up with useful info provided on the center screen.

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We drove the 500hp electric Arc Sport and holy heck, this thing rips

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And the throttle was pretty twitchy, which is bound to happen with so much power, but Arc was thinking about smoothing out the mapping of the throttle lever, which I think would be a good idea. Arc said it took the boat out to Catalina Island, which is 26 miles across the sea from the California coastline.

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Lessons from a year with solar power

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For example the LEAF has a 24 KWh battery pack, and a full pack is good for around 100 miles. Very basic maths gives the LEAF a power usage of close to 4 miles per KWh. That rate would give the LEAF a cost of 17.2 * 24 to drive 100 miles. The panels get some afternoon shade by parts of the roof and chimney pots. .

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How Charles Darwin Found Inspiration on the Cape Verde Islands

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On entering the harbor, a perfectly horizontal white band in the face of the sea cliff, may be seen running for some miles along the coast,” Darwin recounted in “The Voyage of the Beagle.” Their juice, called calabaceira, is thick, velvety and slightly sour — and was my favorite part of breakfast in Praia.)

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2021 Jeep Wrangler 4xe: The legendary SUV brand’s first plug-in hybrid

Charged EVs

That’s not surprising—the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid, the company’s only previous plug-in hybrid, is a well-executed PHEV with an EPA-rated 32 miles of usable electric range that retains all the virtues of the Pacifica minivan. Over five days, we put 276 miles on our test Wrangler 4xe. The two couldn’t be more different.

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