{"id":23941,"date":"2022-06-07T00:04:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T04:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=23941"},"modified":"2022-06-07T00:04:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T04:04:25","slug":"1136089_lincoln-corsair-phev-review-polestar-referrals-california-drought-and-co2-cost-today-s-car-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=23941","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Corsair PHEV review, Polestar referrals, California drought and CO2 cost: Today\u2019s Car News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Volvo\u2019s sales of plug-in models are gaining momentum, and Polestar is adding a referral program, but it\u2019s not so Tesla-like. The California drought has a clean-air cost. And we drive Lincoln\u2019s not-so-electric plug-in hybrid. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/strong>The EVs haven\u2019t yet arrived for Ford\u2019s Lincoln luxury brand, but we recently drove the next closest thing: its Corsair Grand Touring plug-in hybrid. In a review of the Lincoln Corsair Grand Touring<\/a>, we found its approach to embracing the electric side far from overt\u2014but with some impressive numbers for hybrid gas mileage and electric miles.\u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/strong>According to a recent report from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), the prolonged drought in California will increase the carbon cost of the electricity that EVs plug into<\/a>. About 15% of the state\u2019s electricity comes from hydropower with normal levels of precipitation, but that shrinks to 8% in a drought year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Volvo has been on a roll with its plug-in vehicles. Nationwide, its plug-in Recharge models\u2014EVs and plug-in hybrids combined\u2014topped 35% of its U.S. sales. And in California three out of four Volvos sold now have charge ports<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Polestar is rolling out a referral program for its EVs<\/a>. But don\u2019t expect anything close to the $1,000 incentives and free cars for top referrers that Tesla once doled out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Volvo\u2019s sales of plug-in models are gaining momentum, and Polestar is adding a referral program, but it\u2019s not so Tesla-like. The California drought has a clean-air cost. And we drive Lincoln\u2019s not-so-electric plug-in hybrid. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.\u00a0 The EVs haven\u2019t yet arrived for Ford\u2019s Lincoln luxury brand, but we recently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}