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Should you rent an EV for a family holiday?

EV Central

Those exact words came from my wife’s mouth when I suggested we rent an electric car for a week’s family holiday in France. A shitty obscure Chinese electric car. Rent a petrol or diesel car for your holidays. In many places, electric cars are cheaper to rent than equivalent petrol cars.

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Audi RS e-tron GT review: Driving the most powerful production Audi ever

EV Central

This long, low five-door super-coupe not only the most powerful Audi electric vehicle ever built, it’s the most powerful Audi production car of all time. The driver grasps a dimpled, sculpted steering wheel and puts the car in gear via a toggle on the centre console. When driving casually the car takes off in second gear.

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Lessons from a year with solar power

EV Info

With two Electric cars, at the time a Nissan Lean and Mitsubishi Outlander, we use a considerable amount of electricity but not much petrol, so already we were a reasonable way down the less CO2 road. The panels generate DC current that varies with the solar power. This fills the car battery pack and the PylonTech batteries.

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Upcoming electric vehicles in India

Electric Vehicles India

Coming to the electric car specs EKUV 100 has a claimed range of 150 km, with a 15.9 It supports both dc fast charging and ac slow charging. The Electric car is expected to launch in the first quarter of 2022 with a price tag of 8.5 kWh and the charging time is 3 hr 20 min with slow charger and 1 hr with DC fast charger.

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2023 Kia EV6 GT review: Mega-popular electric vehicle put to the seven-day test

EV Central

Demand for these rapid electric GTs is off the charts, so car folk look at you wondering how many brown envelopes were handed over so you could jump the queue. The car’s artificial sound’s been turned off, so I move into traffic in silence. Feels a big car. What a great getaway car. That’s daft acceleration.

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

Plug In India

By Atul Gopal The PluginIndia team went on an electric car drive using the Tata Tigor EV. This will show how Electric cars can be practical and more enjoyable on a highway ride! No pantry car though. If not, then at least try to get the Nano back - that is a car which is screaming out to be electrified. 5,000 upwards.

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

EV Central

Our extensive group test of sub-$80,000 EVs saw the Tesla Model 3 finish ahead of the Polestar (and Kia EV6 and Hyundai Ioniq 5 ), but we declared it the “closest to a true luxury car here.” Also consider this is a low car and getting into the back isn’t the easiest. And they don’t miss you.

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