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These cars, SUVs and trucks are being killed off with the 2024 models by slumping sales or because the manufacturer is moving to hybrid or EV versions of the discontinued gas-powered one. Vehicles that won’t be back in 2025 follows a similarly long and depressing list of models that were killed off for the 2024
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What are the best 2024 model EVs, hybrids and plug-in hybrids? Every year, U. S. News evaluates up to 100 models to determine the best one across ten categories, including SUV, truck and luxury drive.. The vehicles are rated for price and performance, styling and safety features for the title of 2024 Best Hybrid and
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Hertz is dumping 20,000 EVs, including Tesla models from its rental fleet, and replacing them with more gas-powered vehicles. Hertz is selling off Tesla 3 and Y models for as little as $20,000. The decision was driven (pun intended) by problems renters had driving unfamiliar EVs, which have faster acceleration than gas-powered vehicles, and therefore
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The world’s tallest hotel made almost exclusively from wood has opened in Swedish Lapland, the the birthplace of cross-country skiing and home of the reindeer. The Wood Hotel in Skellefteå is no rustic cabin in the woods. It is a 20-story luxury hotel downtown, dominating the skyline, and surrounded by the spruce and pine forest
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Picture this: Drive whatever car you want, whenever you want it, for a monthly fee. Match a model to that day’s activities, just as you match your shoes or the playlist for your driving route, even choose a model color to match that day’s wardrobe choice. We subscribe to magazines, streaming music and video services,
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You win some, you lose some. These are the car and truck models that won’t be returning next year because of poor sales. In alphabetical order – Acura ZDX: This luxury hatchback never found its niche, even though its sibling Honda Crosstour sells reasonably well, and so does the similarly-looking and similarly sport performance driving BMW
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Despite all the promising year-end headlines about the Chevrolet Volt, Nissan Leaf and other new models, 2010 will be remembered as the year Detroit killed off four car brands and sold off several others. It was the end of the road for Hummer, Pontiac and Saturn, killed off by General Motors as it trimmed its
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