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Tesla Sets the Charge: Universal EV Standards in the Making

The Truth About Cars

Fisker, Ford, and Genesis: Fisker's future vehicles, Ford's 2024 EV models, and Genesis's North American fleet from late 2024 will incorporate NACS, alongside adapters for CCS models. Kia, Lexus, Lucid, and Mazda: Adoption by Kia starts in late 2024, while Lexus, Lucid, and Mazda will join in 2025.

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Forget Tesla and BYD: Cadillac is shooting for the (three-point) stars in Australia with 2024 Lyriq electric car to spearhead multi-model rollout

EV Central

Cadillac will be a “tier-one luxury brand” in Australia, with the incoming Lyriq EV to be followed by a fleet of a high-end electric vehicles that will target Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Lexus in our market.

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Future Cars: Concept EVs for 2023 and Beyond

Clean Fleet Report

Lexus EV Sports Car. Lexus looks ready to move into EV supercar territory. Lexus Sports Car. Details are sketchy, but if the photos of the Lexus EV sports car are any indication, this thing is going to be awesome. Lexus doesn’t call it a concept, which usually means some iteration of it will make it into production.

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Consumer Reports: Tesla and other domestic brands take big steps backwards in reliability rankings

Green Car Congress

Asian brands, led by Lexus, Toyota, and Mazda, in that order, continue to be the best for new car reliability in CR’s survey, which is the largest of its kind. Three other brands, Porsche, Volkswagen, and Mercedes-Benz, finished midpack. The Taurus, the oldest model in Ford’s fleet, has “Much-Better-Than-Average” reliability.

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[PRESS RELEASE] DRIVE ELECTRIC RESPONSE TO CLEAN CAR DISCOUNT CHANGES.

Drive Electric

of the entire vehicle fleet. The changes to the Clean Car Discount appear designed to encourage even cleaner vehicles entering our fleet; this will mean more PHEVs and BEVs coming in and over time fewer petrol and diesel vehicles. This is still just 1.5% There’s more to do.

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[PRESS RELEASE] POLITICAL PARTIES – LET’S BACK EV POLICIES TO SAVE NEW ZEALAND MONEY

Drive Electric

While EV registrations have picked up dramatically, they still only comprise less than 2 per cent of the fleet. . “Drive Electric’s election manifesto calls on political parties to push forward with more bold policies for the decarbonisation of transport. There’s much more to be done.

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Road Test: 2021 Cadillac XT5 Premium Luxury FWD

Clean Fleet Report

Competing in the premium midsize SUV category, the 2021 Cadillac XT5 is right in the middle of stiff competition, including models from Acura, Audi, BMW, Genesis, Infiniti, Land Rover, Lexus, Lincoln, Maserati, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Tesla and Volvo. Clean Fleet Report tested a XT5 Premium Luxury with the 3.6L liter V6 engine.