evs
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Sono Motors Kills Off Its Solar-Powered Car
A lot of cars get killed off when their time finally comes. The Audi TT will take its final bow later this year, the Toyota CH-R won’t see the new year and now, electric vehicle startup Sono Motors has announced that its solar-powered city car has bit the dust before it got to taste the…
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Meet the Madman Building a 900-HP Dual Tesla Motor EV-Converted Escape
There’s always a lot of interest in the idea of converting old internal combustion-powered vehicles to electric power. People talk about how old Tesla drive units or Nissan Leaf batteries are relatively affordable, and while they’re technically not wrong, there’s a lot more work and cost that goes into a conversion than that.
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Tesla’s New Autopilot Hardware Can’t Be Retrofit to Older Cars
Since late last year, we’ve known Tesla’s plans to add radar back to its cars. The move is the final nail in the computer-vision coffin, a testament to the necessity of radar (or LiDAR) in automated driving. But now the computer meant to reintroduce radar appears to have leaked, and brings another “feature” of the…
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This One-of-a-Kind Bentley Conversion is the World’s Rarest EV
If you’ve not heard of it before, Lunaz Design is an EV-conversion company based near Silverstone in the UK. The shop will take in your classic car, pack it full of batteries and send you out onto the road in a car you can happily drive in Central London without attracting the wrath of its…