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Acura symbols review offers a surprise

Acura symbols A review of Acura symbols for 2026 found a single new systems requiring an addition. That was a Dynamic Lift Mode Indicator, which we posted yesterday. Make no mistake — adding but a single symbol for a model year is very, very unusual. We generally add anywhere from three to as many as …

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What will come of old EV batteries? Think energy storage…

Energy storage From Inside Climate News, 500 “pre-owned” electric vehicle (EV) batteries are soon to provide energy storage for the Texas electric grid. B2U Storage Solutions out of Lancaster, California is heading up the project. The company has plans for three more facilities of similar size, also in Texas. B2U began life building industrial scale …

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Even cleaner cars: EVs reduce brake dust

Brake dust Just when we thought we knew everything there is to know about regenerative braking, we saw this from InsideEVs. There’s a whole new way that an EV helps improve the air we breath. Brake dust! Or more to the point, the lack of it. The use of regenerative braking reduces brake wear and …

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Getting a handle on EV fires

EV fires Long about a week ago, we did a piece attempting to debunk misinformation about EV fires: they are not common; electric vehicles (EVs) do not explode; etc. It was clear, however, that high-voltage lithium battery fires are very difficult to put out. So we set out to look for best practices. They are: …

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Ford EV jump starting video added to YouTube

EV jump starting Today we added a new video to our YouTube channel describing Ford EV jump starting. It also anticipates that the driver is locked out and includes instructions for getting inside. The video joins the new jump start playlist that now holds four videos. Every electric (EV) vehicle uses a 12-volt “start” battery …

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Lightning and Transit EV jump starting far simpler than the Mach E

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EV jump starting As we assemble our next EV jump starting video, this one for Ford, we’ve found that procedures for Transit and Lightning EVs are far easier and more straight forward than the Mustang Mach E, as we noted in another post. And it “starts” with the fact that the two trucks use a …

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Ford “humbled” by EV progress in China, and remains on track to switch to hybrids

EV progress in China In an interview with Walter Isaacson at the Aspen Ideas Festival and reported by Business Insider, Ford CEO Jim Farley, speaking on EV progress in China, “It’s the most humbling thing I have ever seen. Seventy percent of all EVs in the world, electric vehicles, are made in China.” Not only …

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