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It’s a buyers’ market! Tesla Model 3 and Tesla Model Y dominate  rapidly growing used EV sales in Australia

EV Central

While demand growth for EVs outstrips traditional petrol and diesel vehicles, buyers still have the upper hand in an Australian used electric vehicle market dominated by Tesla. That’s the findings from the Automotive Insights Report analysing March 2024 used car sales compiled by AutoGrab and the Australian Automotive Dealer Association.

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Tesla Cybertruck rival Ford F-150 Lightning firms for Australia

EV Central

The Lightning’s Aussie prospects have been boosted by the establishment of a new assembly line in Melbourne that has started converting left-hand drive petrol F-150s imported from the USA to right-hand drive for sale through Ford dealers from November.

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Hyundai Casper EV? Just build it

EV Central

It’s chunky, funky and called Casper; Hyundai’s personality-packed city SUV currently only for sale in the Korean market. At the global launch of the new Ioniq 6 in Seoul, South Korea, Hyundai was keen for international journalists – including Australian representatives – to sample Casper in its current petrol guise.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. We believe such production models could be available for sale in three years."Furia

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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. No single vehicle does it all even in todays petrol world. They have several stations already built and plan on thousands more. One of the main drawbacks to charge stations is speed. that my day to day car cant solve.