When you’re ready to road trip, no matter where you decide to go, or for how long, there are several options for getting there, including increasingly popular electric vehicles (EVs), even if you don’t have your own. Rental car agencies are keeping up with travelers’ interest in susta...
A lack of charging stations, and a lower-than-expected mileageper charge, made for a stressful...Broder, John M
Now, in reality, most people who own an electric car, and have enough driveway space to charge it at home, plug their car in every evening to make the most of ultra-cheap overnight energy costs in order to wake up to a brimmed battery every single morning. But today, to ensure our ...
Lessons from our road trip The first is simply to accumulate driving experience with a particular vehicle. Teslas promise a far simpler machine with fewer moving parts, but also incredibly sophisticated sensing and computational technology to help control your trip. This means you need to get a f...
electric vehicles utilize Regenerative Braking. Here, when the accelerator pedal is released, the electric motor is used as a generator and kinetic energy is converted into electrical energy. In this process, the car slows down. In some cases, Regenerative Braking is so powerful that the conventio...
BMWcharged into the electric car space with two strong, if quirky, contenders—the hot-selling i3 and the i8 plug-in hybrid supercar. We’ve driven both and are impressed by both, as are many others. But nowBMW is shifting to EVsthat emulate its traditional vehicles–and aim to replace...
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They’re a cleaner, greener (and pretty fun!) way to travel. Take charge and drive them wherever you need – heading to the beach for a day trip, planning a weekend getaway, or simply navigating the city, Zipcar's electric vehicles are the perfect choice!
"The engineering of the car has a huge impact on why I bought it," he explains of his i5 M60. His grandchildren, who frequent the front seat, can testify to the vehicle's impeccable performance. Their number one request is for John to activate SPORT Mode, a performance-oriented setting ...
The Mini Cooper SE shines as a zero-emissions city car, suburban commuter or a first EV for a young driver. Despite its limitations, it's one of our favorite electric cars and should only get betterwhen the next generationhits the road late next year. ...