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2. Electric vehicles are not reliable — yet: Consumer Reports

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   Consumer Reports found that 36% of prospective buyers are considering a hybrid car or truck purchase, up from 29% in 2019. Looking across brands at overall standings, Toyota and Lexus continued to ...

3. EV battery range plummets in cold weather. These tips can help.

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   When temperatures drop, EV owners face a physics problem: Reduced battery performance and increased charging times. Fuel economy is 8% lower at 20 degrees than it is at 75 degrees in EVs ‒ and ...

4. Health and environmental effects of battery electric cars

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   Plug-in hybrids and electric cars run off lithium-ion batteries and rare-earth element electric motors.Electric vehicles use much more lithium carbonate equivalent in their batteries compared to the 7g (0.25 oz) for a smartphone or the 30 g (1.1 oz) used by tablets or computers.

5. Automotive battery - Wikipedia

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   A typical 12 V, 40 Ah lead-acid car battery. An automotive battery, or car battery, is a rechargeable battery that is used to start a motor vehicle.. Its main purpose is to provide an electric current to the electric-powered starting motor, which in turn starts the chemically-powered internal combustion engine that actually propels the vehicle.

6. Why Car Companies Can't Simply Fix Their EV Battery ... - AOL

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7. Consumer Reports - Wikipedia

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   Consumer Reports (CR), formerly Consumers Union (CU), is an American nonprofit consumer organization dedicated to independent product testing, investigative journalism, consumer-oriented research, public education, and consumer advocacy.

8. Plug-in electric vehicle fire - Wikipedia

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   The battery packs are produced by GS Yuasa, the same company that supplies the batteries for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, whose entire fleet was grounded in January 2013 for battery problems. The lithium-ion battery of an i-MiEV caught fire at the Mizushima battery pack assembly plant on March 18 while connected to a charge-discharge test equipment.

9. Range anxiety - Wikipedia

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   The Nissan Leaf has a United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rated range of 73 mi (117 km). Range anxiety is the driver's fear that a vehicle has insufficient energy storage (fuel and/or battery capacity) to cover the road distance needed to reach its intended destination, and would thus strand the vehicle's occupants mid-way.