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Frontal crash test of a Volvo C30 Drive Electric to assess the safety of the battery pack. Numerous plug-in electric vehicle (EV) fire incidents have taken place since the introduction of mass-production plug-in electric vehicles. [1] In some cases, an EV's battery (at least arguably) caused a fire.
Stellantis tells owners of 2005–2010 Dodge Challenger, Charger, Magnum and Chrysler 300 cars to park them until they have replaced faulty Takata airbags.
The charger may have temperature or voltage sensing circuits and a microprocessor controller to safely adjust the charging current and voltage, determine the state of charge, and cut off at the end of charge. Chargers may elevate the output voltage proportionally with current to compensate for impedance in the wires. [3]
Legislation signed by President Lyndon Johnson earlier on September 9, 1966, included the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act (Pub. L. 89–563) and Highway Safety Act (Pub. L. 89–564) that created the National Traffic Safety Agency, the National Highway Safety Agency, and the National Highway Safety Bureau, predecessor agencies to ...
Ford is recalling more than 450,000 compact SUVs and pickup trucks in the United States because they might lose drive power resulting from a battery issue, the National Highway Traffic Safety ...
The South Carolina Highway Patrol is replacing part of its fleet of Dodge Chargers with Ford F-150s. Here’s why. ... Safety has about 1,000 ... Vehicles (Explorers) and Dodge Chargers. Of course ...
Nader counters by pointing out that, at the time, annual (and unnecessary) styling changes added, on average, about $700 to the consumer cost of a new car (equivalent to $6,800 in 2023). This compared to an average expenditure in safety by the automotive companies of about twenty-three cents per car (equivalent to $2.22 in 2023). [5]: p187
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