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Cheap talk: Volkswagen to bed Renault in race to build sub-$30k EV | reports

EV Central

Encouraging both to work together is the influx of cheap Chinese EVs that have flooded European markets eroding established European brand’s market share in all segments. An entry EV will also help prepare for the next wave of bargain-priced EVs that are already on sale in China.

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After calling Teslas a “toy” years ago, Hyundai’s belief in hydrogen is being tested

Teslarati

’ They told people battery-powered electric cars wouldn’t be able to travel for more than 150 kilometers, while hydrogen cars are advantageous because of the longer-range driving,” the green energy mobility consultant said. The company’s sales figures seem to speak for themselves.

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Stuff We Use: Under Pressure (Washers)

The Truth About Cars

For ages, this writer used a gasoline-powered pressure washer, firm in the belief it ran better and more reliably than any cheap electric plug-in unit ever would. battery-powered household tools have come a long way from the Bad Old Days – and are even light years ahead in terms of performance than those on sale just a few years ago.

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Pick me up! Fiat reveals the wild cheap electric ute that will spearhead its reinvention in Australia

EV Central

Fiat has ignored this week’s Geneva motor show and instead gone it alone revealing five all-new radical concepts including a battery-powered ute that it hopes will forge a new path to success in markets such as Australia. Fiat Concept Camper. The post Pick me up!

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

Clean Fleet Report

But the battery-powered two-wheelers get separate showrooms, sales methodologies and marketing programs aimed at different target audience. Not easy or cheap, but it has worked so far. With no history to hold them back, they began developing battery-powered two-wheelers in 2006 and have never looked back.

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Cash for Volts?

Revenge of the Electric Car

By contrast, hybrid vehicles that mix traditional internal- combustion engines with electric power accounted for less than 3% of car sales in 2008, more than a decade after their introduction. Despite a high upfront cost, operating an electric vehicle is cheap, costing 2.5 Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) who took part in the event.

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Australia’s cheapest electric car? Tiny EK X EV imported by Mitsubishi to test demand

EV Central

As part of its case study, a Mitsubishi eK X EV has already been imported, with the five-door, four-seat battery-powered kei car arriving in Adelaide last week. Back in 2013 it launched the MiEV electric car but that car was quietly withdrawn just three years later.