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An e-scooter, a PHEV and an angry man

EV Central

Just plug in your microwave, TV, coffee machine, laptop, fridge, e-scooter, e-bike or whatever, and the car sends electric juice their way. EVs with V2L include the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Ioniq 6 ; Kia EV6 and Niro EV ; MG ZS EV, all electric Genesis’ and the BYD Atto 3.

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Electric Car Watch #1: Electric Car Disruption will destroy ICE Car Market | ? ?

Plug In India

If you encounter such people or articles, all you need to do is point them to the numbers and trends in the auto market. Battery packs from BYD, CATL, and Tesla all reported having 1 million km of usable life. These websites publish a lot of sensational anti-EV articles with attention-grabbing, clickbait-friendly headlines.

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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

Plug In India

Also meeting BYD e6 owner! Started the day with a visit to India’s first owner of the BYD B6 car. The BYD is going to be Jay’s car now. The BYD folks use kWh per 100 km - please spare us guys and move on to wh/km.) With BYD’s proprietary blade cells, it probably is the best car in the country.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

BYD , for examples, says their 60 mile range-extended vehicle can add 30 miles of range in ten minutes. The biggest problem with recharging at home - as already alluded to in the article, is that electric cars are mostly marketed as city vehicles. They have several stations already built and plan on thousands more.

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Polestar 2 AWD or 2WD: Which one should you buy?

EV Central

The Polestar 2 was Australia’s fourth best-selling EV of 2022 , behind only Tesla’s Model 3 and Model Y , plus the cheapie disruptor BYD Atto 3. Had availability been better, and if Hertz hadn’t snapped up thousands of them globally , Polestar sales would have been far higher than the 1524 shifted last year.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Posted by: Bob F | Apr 13, 2009 9:42:47 PM Despite factual errors and oversights in this article, you still make an excellent point. A simple, clean, efficient EV that wont run out of juice because of its on-board gas generator. Going from 12MPG to 15.8MPG saves more gas than going from 50MPG to 500MPG.

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