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Electric vehicles (EVs) have come a long way in a short time. Barely a decade has passed since the ambitious Silicon Valley startup Tesla Motors introduced the world to an electric car capable of traveling more than 300 miles on a single charge. Since then, Elon Musk and Tesla have convinced many dubious onlookers that electric vehicles are not only here to stay, but that they can become the future of transportation. Other automakers have joined the EV movement at very different rates. The Nissan Leaf, for example, debuted in 2010 and went on to become the best-selling all-electric vehicle in ...

Accumulating carbon dioxide (CO2) in our atmosphere is a driving factor in global average temperature increases. There are well over 278 million personal and commercial vehicles in the US today. On average, each emits around 4.6 metric tons (tonnes) of CO2 annually. This means the US vehicle fleet emits at least 1.3 billion tonnes of CO2 every year and that doesn’t even include airplanes, trains, boats or small gas powered engines (lawn mowers etc).

This weekend I repeated a drive I did just over a year ago, mainly because I wanted to go for a hike, but also because I wanted to do a simple diagnostic test of my Kia Sorento plug-in hybrid (PHEV) battery to see if there might have been any noticeable degradation in its maximum range on a full charge. Note, I did not expect there to be any degradation, I was just checking for the sake of doing so while transporting myself to a hiking spot.

This past weekend, I took my family camping in our Kia Sorento plug-in hybrid (PHEV) and in addition to testing out the efficiency of different driving modes, I also further tested how comfortable it is to sleep in the Sorento. As such, I have some more good tips for those who want to use their Sorento for camping (or just have reason to do things like turn off the daytime running lights while parked).

Kia has at least two new electric SUVs going on sale soon. One of them has just had pricing information released for the South Korean market (the EV9). The other, the EV5, has also been confirmed by at least one media outlet as now destined for both right and left hand drive markets (which may mean we’ll get it in the US, too). This is good news for those looking for larger, 3 row, or just more spacious all electric SUVs that are a little more reasonably priced.