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Image: ANCAP Australia’s first luxury people mover, LDV’s MIFA 9, has been awarded a five-star ANCAP rating by Australia’s independent safety assessment authority. The MIFA 9 scored highly across the 4 key areas. The awarded results from ANCAP were: ...

Electric road trips in UK: Cleaner than fossil fuels, and plenty of charging options

It wasn’t the numbers, or the price per kilowatt hour that took me by surprise, it was the fact that the prices were in pounds, and not dollars. The first fast charger we had come across in our electric ...

Another Chinese electric ute due to be launched in Australia

Credit: BLK Auto Queensland-based specialist vehicle importer and distributor BLK Auto has announced plans to bring the Chinese-manufactured JAC T9 electric ute to Australia in the second quarter of 2024. BLK Auto, which operates in Australia and New Zealand, ...

Ram teases “Revolution Electric” ute due to be unveiled in January

Credit: Ram Trucks American automaker Ram Trucks has teased the upcoming unveiling of its Ram 1500 Revolution battery electric vehicle (BEV) concept, which is due to have its covers lifted in early January. Ram Trucks – the American brand ...

Toyota to launch five new BEVs by 2026, but none scheduled for Australia

Toyota has unveiled Victoria’s first commercial-grade hydrogen production, storage and refuelling facility. Source: Toyota Toyota, Australia’s best-selling vehicle brand, has announced five more battery EV models by 2026 in Europe. The goal is to have sales of their EV ...

Transgrid installs first “Supernova” EV fast charger next to Wallgrove battery

Credit: Transgrid NSW-based transmission company Transgrid is installing the first “next generation” EV fast charger to be made by Spanish company Wallbox as part of its program to transition its fleet of vehicles to electric, including its first electric ...

Tow bar coming for BYD Atto 3 EV drivers in Australia

Australian-made tow bar to be available soon for BYD Atto 3. Image: AEVA One of the frustrations for Australian EV buyers has been the reluctance of the manufacturers to rate their EV offerings for towing (despite many of them ...

Express freight giant makes biggest order for electric trucks in Australia

Australian freight giant Team Global Express has made the biggest order for electric trucks in Australia after landing a $20 million deal with the Australian Renewable Energy Agency to fund the purchase. The deal involves the purchase of 36 ...

South Australia’s RAA sets standard for disability access to EV charging

Credit: RAA The Royal Automobile Association of South Australia (RAA) is to conduct a trial to create access standards to electric vehicle charging infrastructure for people with disabilities. Announced to coincide with the International Day of Persons with a ...

Are plug-in hybrid cars just “fake electrics”?

Percentage of kilometres driven in EV mode How that electrical energy is sourced: Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) have often been touted as a stepping stone in the move from fully fossil-fuelled vehicles to fully electric ones. However, there ...

New electric ute rolls off the production line in US, heading to customers

Lordstown Endurance Credit: Lordstown Motors American EV maker Lordstown Motors announced this week it has begun shipping the first 500 batch of its Endurance electric pickup/ute to customers after obtaining its final approvals from regulators. Boasting four in-wheel hub ...

Construction begins on world’s longest electric vehicle network

Bill Gresham reaches Western Australia from Canberra in his Hyundai Ioniq Electric. Supplied Construction has begun on the world’s longest electric vehicle (EV) highway, with the town of Kalbarri to the north of Perth to host the first new ...

BYD to launch electric hatchbacks with new Sodium-ion batteries

Image: CNC BYD is looking at the smaller EV market slightly differently and now has plans to launch its smallest EV hatchback with a new sodium-ion battery. Reports of this new battery surfaced on local media and cnevpost. The ...

Tesla cuts prices for its EVs in US. Is Australia next?

Image: Riz Akhtar Tesla has decided to offer US customers a $US3,750 price reduction for Model 3 and Model Y EVs sold in the month of December. The initiative is in line with reports of lower demand for new ...

“It’s real:” Tesla finally delivers Semi electric truck that “drives like a Model 3”

Semi specs A long time coming Tesla has marked commercial delivery of its very first Semi electric truck, five years after the huge EV was first unveiled by Elon Musk as the future of zero emissions heavy transport. The ...

Australia’s cheapest electric vehicle is a 10-year-old Mitsubishi

The i-Miev in happier days. Image: Peter Petries As an EV enthusiast, every now and then I would jump onto classified listings websites to have a look at the variety of electric vehicles on offer around the country. This ...

Available Tesla Model 3 stock now building in Australia

Image: Riz Akhtar Tesla is by far the most popular EV brand in the world, and the demand is so high that in Australia, Tesla EV order holders have had many months of wait for most of 2022. Now ...

New tax deals deliver $10,000 saving for Tesla Model Y, makes EVs as cheap as Mazda 3

MG EV as cheap as a Mazda 3 Top saving is $10,000 Tesla Model 3 in Australian outback. Credit: Jeff Wicks. Image used with permission. Australians with a savvy accountant and a progressive workplace could get a $6000 a ...

Second Ora Funky Cat electric hatchback spotted in Australia

Image: Riz Akhtar Affordable EVs are all the rage. With most states and territories offering rebates on EV purchases under $50,000, demand for EVs within this price bracket is relatively high. One EV that is sure to do well ...

Sydney corporate park offers two Tesla Model 3s for tenants to share

Credit: Ohmie A pair of Tesla 3s will be made available to tenants at the Rhodes Corporate Park in Sydney thanks to a partnership between local electric mobility start-up Ohmie Go and Frasers Property Development. The Sydney-based Ohmie Go ...

Mercedes Trucks to use electric trucks only in its own supply chain

Credit: Daimler Truck Mercedes-Benz Trucks, one of Daimler Truck’s biggest brands, has set a goal of electrifying all deliveries to its largest truck manufacturing plant in Wörth, Germany, by the end of 2026. The Wörth truck assembly plant was ...

Musk says fully loaded Tesla Semi completes 800km trip, invites Gates to test drive

Tesla Semi. Source: Tesla Tesla boss Elon Musk has claimed that a fully-loaded Tesla Semi electric heavy truck has completed an 800kms journey – presumably without re-charging. The revelation – made on the Twitter social media channel he now ...

Low-cost electric hatchbacks are finally making a big Leap into the market

Source: Leapmotor Aside from Nissan Leaf, EV hatchbacks have been missing from the Australian EV market. But that may be about to change soon. Last week, Australia’s first low cost EV hatchback was spotted being tested on the streets ...

CEFC gives $20.5 million to help drive down cost of electric car loans

MG ZS EV charging at Ampol. Image: Riz Akhtar The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has allocated $20.5 million to support what it says will be $100 million of green car loans and a new opportunity to lower the ...

BYD Dolphin – likely to be Australia’s first sub $40,000 EV – seen on Sydney streets

Source: @smithy_dll (Twitter) What is likely to be one of the most important cars in Australia’s EV revolution has been spotted testing in the streets of Sydney. It’s an EV hatchback model from BYD in camouflage, which appears to ...

Atto 3: Used BYD electric SUVs are being sold at massive premiums to new models

Image: Riz Akhtar BYD has done something that only 12 months ago was unthinkable in the Australian EV market – launching and delivering an affordable ground-up electric SUV for under $50,000 that has made EV ownership a reality for ...

Toyota Hilux and Ford Ranger utes to go electric as pricing revealed for mass EV conversions

Source: Roev Electric utes are all the buzz at the moment in Australia and across the world. Now, Roev – an electric conversion start-up launched by two former senior Atlassian executives – has released its pricing offers to electrify ...

Bad sign for Australia? US solar giant switches fleet to F-150 electric utes

Image: SunRun Major US solar installer SunRun has received delivery of 15 F-150 Lightning “pick-ups” from fellow US giant, Ford, in the latest demonstration of the popularity of the all-electric ute – and the latest sign Australia might be ...

Which states are doing best on switch to EVs and transport emissions

The ACT and New South Wales are leading the charge on lowering transport emissions, while Western Australia and the Northern Territory are lagging behind, according to new analysis by the Climate Council. Climate Council’s Are we there yet? Clean ...

Tesla clocks up 40,000 Superchargers, “and counting”

Credit: @TeslaCharging Tesla has laid claim to the biggest EV supercharger network in the world, after revealing it passed the 40,000-mark of Superchargers installed around the globe. The milestone was announced on the TeslaCharging Twitter account on Wednesday in ...

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