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When the current-generation RAV4 crossover was introduced in 2019, Toyota promised both a hybrid and a plug-in hybrid option. We’ve driven both as 2021 model year offerings. Here’s what we learned about Toyota’s electrified RAV4s.Continue ReadingCatego… Continue reading Review: Electrified RAV4s, Hybrid vs. Prime
BMW has been slowly electrifying all of its vehicles. The small X3 crossover has been a popular staple in the automaker’s lineup for a few years, offering family-sized luxury with BMW’s signature driver’s focus. Now the X3 has a plug-in option, the X3 … Continue reading Review: 2020 BMW X3 Hybrid – a plug gets added to the popular SAV
Jeep’s new 4xe sub-brand of electrified vehicles has added the iconic Wrangler to its growing list of plug-ins. The Wrangler 4xe is a plug-in hybrid version of the new-generation Wrangler, and has been designed from the ground-up to be electrified. It … Continue reading Jeep adds Wrangler 4xe to electrified lineup
The current-generation Mitsubishi Outlander was introduced in 2014 and a plug-in hybrid model (PHEV) arrived shortly thereafter. The PHEV combines the best of both worlds, offering the experience of all-electric driving with the assurance of longer ran… Continue reading Review: 2020 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV is great … to a point
The new 2020 Ford Escape Plug-In Hybrid model, announced last year, has finally entered showrooms in the US. Using Ford’s fourth-generation hybrid technology, the Escape PHEV is rated at 100 MPGe (2.4 l/100km).Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, Tran… Continue reading 2020 Ford Escape Plug-in Hybrid gets MPGe rating, price tag
Volvo is generally known for safety, but consistently delivers some of the more well-designed luxury vehicles in the American market as well. With the 2020 S60, Volvo has found a sweet spot that combines luxury, safety, and daily driveability in a smal… Continue reading Review: 2020 Volvo S60 PHEV hits a sweet spot for luxury sedans
[Andrew Rossignol] has a slightly unusual plug-in hybrid vehicle, a Cadillac ELR, and his latest project for the car sees him building a battery-powered portable mains charging pack for it in an attempt to increase its range. If this seems to be a rather cumbersome exercise, his write-up details the work he put in trying to hook up directly to the car’s internal battery, and how a 4 kW mains inverter and an off-the-shelf mains charging station were the most practical alternative.
His first impulse was to hook a second supply to the car’s high voltage bus from a supplementary …read more