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Articles by Sebastian Blanco
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Chrysler Announces Pacifica Hybrid Family Rideshare Partnership
Until our robot cars can take the kids to piano practice all by themselves, someone is going to have to buckle up in the driver's seat. If you're the kind of parent who's too busy – or just not that interested today, thank you very much – to drive the little ones to practice, then you might like a new announcement from Chrysler and Kango. Kango is a ridesharing service based in California, ...
08 August 2017
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It's Getting Harder To Make The Long Tailpipe Argument In Europe
It's been a favorite criticism of plug-in vehicles for a long, long time: who cares if there are no tailpipe emissions if you're just using dirty coal to power your car. Well, thanks to new rules for coal-fired power stations in Europe, that argument is about to get much, much weaker. The EU adopted new standards that will put stricter limits on the emissions of nitrous oxides (NOx), sulphur dioxi...
01 August 2017
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Audi A8 L Plug-In Hybrid Could Come To U.S. In 2019
E-Tron tech bouncing from A3, Q7 PHEVs to new A8 – and maybe back again. To be clear, an official decision to bring the new Audi A8 L Plug-In Hybrid to the U.S. has not yet been made. But it's pretty clear that the new PHEV – Audi's third – will come to America at some point. At the Audi Summit in Barcelona, Spain today to debut the new A8, an Audi spokesperson told InsideEVs that the E-Tr...
11 July 2017
