Ferrari F80: the anti-Prius hybrid that refuses to drive on electricity
The Ferrari F80 is a 1,200 hp hybrid with no plug and no EV mode: its 2.28 kWh battery is built to go faster, not greener. The no-filter take, on NEB.
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TOYOTA PRIUS
Toyota Prius: the market proved it right For twenty-five years, the car world treated the Toyota Prius as the class clown. The car for the smug, the eco in-law, the cab driver, the person who feels nothing behind the wheel. It was sneered at, caricatured, and even accused — via a rigged study — of … Read more
LOHNER-PORSCHE
Lohner-Porsche: America Was Winning the Electric Race, Then the Battery Won Here is a number that ruins a lot of dinner-party history. The 1899 US census counted 1,575 electric vehicles built, 1,681 steam vehicles, and 936 gasoline cars. Gasoline came third. In America. New York’s first motorized cab fleet was electric, and the company running … Read more