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2024 Toyota Tacoma is the Ultimate Adventure Machine
- Available i-FORCE MAX turbocharged 2.4-liter four-cylinder hybrid powertrain produces 326 horsepower, 465 lb.-ft. of torque.
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Tesla driver shoots and kills another one over supercharger station
An argument over a Tesla supercharger station led to the shooting and killing of one of the drivers.
These Tesla supercharger stations are perilous.
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Parked Tesla Model 3 explodes, kills man
It is very sad. EV fires and explosions can be unforgiving. Hopefully, the battery safety will be improved over the next few years.
Here is the news article with a video clip showing an obliterated Tesla Model 3:
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Toyota Patents Working Manual for Performance Hybrids
https://www.thedrive.com/news/manual-equipped-toyota-performance-hybrids-may-be-coming-soon
The Drive article describes how a manual might work in Toyota's performance hybrids:
"There is still effectively one master cylinder for the clutch. The inlet for that cylinder is the output of a shuttle valve, though. The valve takes two inputs from two separate cylinders and, depending on which cylinder provides more pressure, allows that stream of fluid to get into the master cylinder. One of these input cylinders is connected directly to the clutch pedal. The other is controlled by the car's ECU."
So by using this setup the driver has partial override of the ECU's cylinder if they so choose by applying more pressure on the clutch. It even has an option to make it manual full time, disabling the ECU's cylinder, when selecting Sport Mode. Maybe this can be applied to EVs as well... -
chevron road trip demonstrates renewable gasoline blend
"Chevron U.S.A. Inc., a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX), kicked off a road trip today across the U.S. Gulf Coast to showcase an innovative new gasoline blend with more than 50 percent renewable content. People from Chevron and Toyota will be driving Toyota’s Tundra, RAV4 and Camry on this road trip with the objective of demonstrating the fuel, which is more than 40 percent less carbon intensive than traditional gasoline on a lifecycle basis."
Chevron road trip demonstrates renewable gasoline blend — Chevron
Very little details out about what this fuel actually is or its cost. Might change by this evening. From a line in a Bloomberg article, I'm guessing it might be from hydrotreated vegetable oil(HVO). This oil goes through process similar to petroleum refining. Some places use HVO as a biodiesel without the drawbacks of traditional biodiesel.
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Dead: Chevy Bolt EV and Bolt EUV
While I understand they want to offer more attractive and useable vehicles, the Bolt had a good price point with federal credits. The new vehicles will be much more expensive.
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Surging electric vehicle demand causing states to pump the brakes on EV incentives (NJ, OR)
https://electrek.co/2023/04/20/surging-ev-demand-causing-states-pause-incentives/
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CATL has new 500 Wh/kg battery
That is almost twice the energy density of today's Li-ion cells. It also isn't a recent lab break through. These "condensed" batteries are going into production within the year.
https://thedriven.io/2023/04/21/worlds-largest-battery-maker-announces-major-breakthrough-in-battery-density/
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