EV Central

JULY 4, 2023

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. Sure, it’d be a gamble fraught with charging uncertainty. A stuck charging cable. Holiday days planned around EV charging. Charging is Easy! How spectacularly naive.

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EV Central

JANUARY 13, 2024

With sensible hat on we can appreciate EVs with efficiency, long range, fast charging and silky silent smoothness. Rapid charging, V2L and liveable 448km range seal the deal. Biggest EV surprise of 2023: God awful charging infrastructure I’m not choosing a car. Then I had a catastrophic holiday in France with a rental EV.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Renault’s coming small EVs will deliver European style at Chinese prices… and they’re likely to make it to Australia. Starting prices for the 4, a small front-drive SUV, and the 5, a small front-drive hatchback, will be between €20,000 and €25,000 he estimated. Including Australia?

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EV Central

AUGUST 19, 2023

As a motoring writer, this is the question we’re most asked after what’s the best you’ve driven. The Seres 3 SUV. But its keys were handed to me by Europcar France as my holiday EV rental, in lieu of the Hyundai Kona Electric I’d ordered. No, I’d not heard of one either.

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EV Central

JULY 5, 2022

Rain is lashing down on the Vosges Mountains near France’s border with Germany. We’re nearing ski-resort altitude on the winding road, and the EQE53 is doing amazing things. It’s going to also provide the basis for other large EVs from Mercedes-EQ, including the coming EQE and EQS SUVs. Range and charging.

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