With bi-directional charging, the Volvo EX90 basically works as a power bank, allowing the battery to store electricity that can later be transferred back into an owner's home
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Before his battery behemoths, Rivian’s billionaire founder made an eco sports car
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Mercedes makes better performance, increasing horsepower and torque while dropping 0-60 times, a $1,200 subscription in its EVs
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How do seatbelts work?
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In the 1980s an unlikely collaboration between environmental activists and the pop group A-ha inspired Norway's electric car revolution
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US Justice Department announces takedown of nationwide catalytic converter theft ring
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American automakers claim they can’t comply with right-to-repair laws
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Team of Swedish engineers has finally developed the first crash test dummy designed on the body of the average woman
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How Finland put traffic crashes on ice – only 219 people died on Finnish roads in 2021, or four per 100,000 residents
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Why do new cars look like this? (Gray and without any flake, as if formed out of dough)
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Scooters and three-wheelers are really what’s driving an EV revolution
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Halting way to the right road – Dagen H is the day Sweden switched to driving on the right in 1967
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Unorthodox propulsion vehicles at Pebble Beach
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Investigating the mysteriously feel-good "Texas Turnaround"
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Hacker jailbreaks control unit that stops farmers repairing their tractors, then runs Doom on it
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Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds
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Today, Brussels breaks up with the car
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Inside the first undersea roundabout – one of the world's most remote construction projects can be found on the Faroe Islands
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BMW wants to charge for heated seats. These grey market hackers will fix that.
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BMW makes heated seats a monthly subscription
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Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals
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US NHTSA data likely shows Teslas on Autopilot crash more than rivals
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Elon Musk’s regulatory woes mount as US moves closer to recalling Tesla’s self-driving software
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The Orange Pill - Your city will be changed forever
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The killer tricycle banned by the US government
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Just another pedestrian killed
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Northvolt and Norsk Hydro will take their battery recycling joint venture to Europe later this year after the Swedish start-up opened their first plant in Norway
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Turkey has built the longest suspension bridge in the world
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About those kill-switched Ukrainian tractors
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Norway seeks solution to looming EU tax on car batteries – batteries produced outside the UK or the EU after 2027 face a 10% customs tax
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Driverless car appears to flee the scene after being pulled over by cops
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Waymo expands autonomous vehicle service to downtown Phoenix
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Uber reaches deal to list all New York City taxis on its app
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Tyre Extinguishers – deflating SUV tyres as a form of climate action
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Why the concept of induced demand is a hard sell
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1.7 million Hondas are being investigated for phantom braking
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Where can I buy a kit internal combustion engine?
Title. I am interested in buying a kit model engine to assemble and run. I am fine with anything from a single cylinder to a V8. It has to be a kit. It needs to run on a fuel (I want an actual,...
Title. I am interested in buying a kit model engine to assemble and run.
- I am fine with anything from a single cylinder to a V8.
- It has to be a kit.
- It needs to run on a fuel (I want an actual, running engine)
- It should not be made in China (would strongly prefer US/Europe/Japan).
Are there any particular companies or stores I should look at?
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A fight over the right to repair cars turns ugly in Massachusetts
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Tesla recalls 53,822 vehicles running "full self-driving" because they won't stop at stop signs
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Hydrogen cars have gotten a lot of hate lately, and only some of that is deserved
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Electric cars are less green to make than petrol but make up for it in less than a year, new analysis reveals
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Elon Musk’s ‘Vegas Loop’ called a ‘death trap’ as Las Vegas traffic piles up
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ONE Gemini battery nearly doubles Tesla Model S range
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GM heralded this US plant as a model for its electric car future. Then its batteries started exploding
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Northvolt rolls out Europe's first gigafactory-era car battery – Swedish plant ramps up lithium ion cell production in race to profit from growing electric car demand
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Utrecht wants to be the first city to use its electric car fleet as a giant battery
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Looking for a way to soup up your car? Go electric.
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What free, ad-supported Uber rides might look like. Mockups, economics, and analysis.
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How road barriers stopped killing drivers
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Hyundai electrifies its 1986 grandeur in a retro-futuristic restoration
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