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All-Wheel Drive Prius With Robust Winter Battery And More Cargo Capacity Than Many Crossovers Revealed For 2019

Toyota's new AWD-e Prius will hit the market in 2019 with more capacity than a Mazda CX-5 or Subaru Crosstrek.
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By: John Goreham

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Subaru WRX Scores ALG “Best Sports Car” In Residual Value Again

Subaru does it again and scores big with Best Mainstream Brand award and 5 individual ALG Residual Value Vehicle Awards. WRX is “Best Sports Car” again.
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By: Denis Flierl

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Popular Science Names Electrify America’s Charging System 'Best Of What’s New'

Electrify America, the Volkswagen subsidiary charged with expanding or creating more zero emissions infrastructure, has been awarded Popular Science 'Best of What's New" for 2018. Specifically, PopSci called out EA's high-speed charging stations and the special tech. that they use.
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By: Marc Stern

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2019 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Costs $230 More than a Comparable 2018

The 2019 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat has a much lower starting price than the 2018 models due to the removal of several key standard features, but even when you equip the 2019 version with the same basic features as the previous model year, the new, more-powerful Hellcat Challenger does cost a bit less.
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By: Patrick Rall

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Graphite’s Role in EV Battery Production and Industry Wide Expectations

If by 2025 one in six new cars sold in the world will be electric this means the world will need more EV batteries for electric cars. This means the car manufacturers will need more Graphite to build EV batteries. Torque News spoke with Tom Yingling, the president of Berkwood Resources Ltd. who told us that many battery and auto manufactures have reached out to them and are waiting for their graphite resource report to come out.
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By: Armen Hareyan

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The Rivian R1T Suddenly and Impressively Becomes the World’s First All-Electric Pickup Truck. Not Ford. Not Tesla.

Unveil Review: Rivian Automotive, the Michigan based startup that for ten years carefully, but secretly planned to find the right vehicle, at the right time, and at the right moment, to launch an all BEV the world hasn’t seen, seemed to find the right recipe to unveil that vehicle NOW, as they launched something that Tesla had expectations of doing first: to launch the first all electric pickup truck in the world. And Rivian did it. Not Ford. Not Tesla. This is a game changer . . .
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By: Al Castro

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Twenty Years of Cadillac Escalade: A Vision of the Future, with Lessons, a Nod Toward the Past

It was around this time twenty years ago that the now legendary Cadillac Escalade started hauling the ruling class and celebritydom on the streets of the big American cities as if they were elegant stage coaches of the Victorian or Edwardian Eras over 100 years ago. So after reading a story about the disastrous 2009 hybrid I decided to do a flashback ode to the iconic 20th century truck that lives on today.
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By: Al Castro

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Will Toyota Axe The Prius c? We Argue Both Sides And Ask For Your Prediction

Toyota is planning to cut some models from its vast lineup. All will be cars that are not selling well. Will the Prius c be one of those that gets the boot?
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By: John Goreham

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