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Brake problems behind Mitsubishi EV recall

Mitsubishi Motors North America is recalling 1,402 model year 2012 i-MiEV electric vehicles because the brake system vacuum pump may fail, causing the vacuum pump to stop working, thus increasing stopping distances and increasing the risk of a collision.   … Continue reading

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More 411 on owning an EV

Recently, Cheryl Schmitt, transportation planner for the Santa Cruz public works department, wrote a guest column about her adventures in cutting her lifeline to gasoline-powered vehicles and attaching it instead to a plug-in electric Think City car. Readers have written … Continue reading

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