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SEAT launches three new electric scooters

By Paul F. Ford 3 days ago

SEAT has introduced three new all-electric powered scooters, which the enterprise claims are specific at city-dwelling commuters. The trio of scooters are all set to go on sale in the United kingdom now – but the business is even now waiting around for the Department of Transportation to make a determination on their legality.

SEAT’s to start with selection, called the SEAT MÓ eScooter125, is an all-electric powered moped with very similar proportions to the Peugeot Satelis 125i and Honda Forza a hundred twenty five. Like most mopeds, it characteristics an upright windscreen and a hinged saddle that

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New smartphone app makes electric car crash rescues safer

By Paul F. Ford 4 days ago

A new smartphone app by crash-exam physique Euro NCAP aims to make auto accidents safer for emergency companies and first responders by alerting them to the site of high-voltage batteries and wires – crucial elements in electric cars and trucks that pose sizeable threats if slice improperly or harmed.

Automobile makers are already obliged to make ‘rescue sheets’ for their vehicles, indicating where by firefighters should slice them if they have to have to eliminate a car’s roof, for case in point.

From this yr, Euro NCAP is awarding details in its crash tests primarily based on regardless of whether

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New 2021 Volkswagen ID.4 electric SUV leaked in revealing images

By Paul F. Ford 5 days ago

The forthcoming Volkswagen ID.four electric SUV has been leaked, as visuals and technical particulars for the firm’s forthcoming Tesla Product Y rival have been revealed on the net by Chinese authorities. 

The Chinese market will be a single of the ID.4’s most essential destinations and the specifications outlined in the leaks relate to variations of the crossover owing to be marketed there, but the new SUV will sign up for the ID.3 hatchback on sale in Europe upcoming year.

Volkswagen released a handful of extremely revealing teaser visuals for the ID.four again in March, and these regulatory filings take out

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A Fully Electric Kia Seltos Is Coming

By Paul F. Ford 2 weeks ago

Effectively, this will be a infant brother to the Kia Niro EV. There is a capture, however – the documents propose the Kia Seltos EV is at this time only prepared for China. China is building a large thrust for EVs, prompting brands to sell versions of present-day products completely for the Chinese current market.

According to the leaked documents, Kia programs to sell the Seltos EV in China in the next half of 2020. There is still a likelihood the Kia Seltos EV could sooner or later get there in the US, but we will likely have to wait

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Ford not worried about electric car sales after gas prices drop

By Paul F. Ford 1 month ago

On regular, American motorists are shelling out $1.ninety seven for a gallon of standard unleaded. Filling up a gas guzzler is stunningly very affordable in 2020, but Ford does not think low gas price ranges will decimate need for electric vehicles.

Mark Kaufman, the Blue Oval’s world-wide director of electrification, advised Environmentally friendly Car Reviews that his team hesitantly thinks up to a third of all vehicles bought globally in 2030 will be electric. He discussed predicting exactly how need will develop is difficult, in particular because you will find no historical knowledge to draw lessons from, but his team

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