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Petrol can be cheaper than electric – if less than £1 per litre

My Energi

• The average electric car remains cheaper to run than an equivalent petrol car • Fuel prices would need to fall below £1 per litre to make petrol cars cheaper to run • Electric car registrations exceeded expectations in 2022, beating forecasts by 7% Despite the average price of petrol falling below £1.50 With fuel at £1.50

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Tesla donates destroyed Model 3 to Australia fire safety investigation

Teslarati

He noted that a Tesla technician in charge of the Asia-Pacific region who had been a part of the investigation said that even senior technicians at Tesla in the U.S. “If we look at the annual reports from Fire Rescue NSW, they roll out to about 2,500 petrol and diesel vehicle fires every year,” De Rango said.

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Volkswagen Marine Diesel Engines On Display at boot 2010; Greenline 33 Hybrid

Green Car Congress

Volkswagen Marine will exhibit its marine diesel engine line-up at “ boot 2010 ” in Düsseldorf (23-31 January 2010). A 3 kW inverter/charger charges the battery in the shore power mode and delivers a 230 V AC power supply throughout the boat at all times. The Greenline 33. Click to enlarge. The Greenline 33 features a 1.3

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Help support fair-charge

EV Info

Campaigners are calling for a halt to an ‘unfair’ policy that sees EV driver forced to pay four times more tax for electricity from public charge-points compared to home charge-points. The post Help support fair-charge appeared first on evinfo.info. It is putting pressure on the Treasury to scrap the ‘unfair’ policy.

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Why 2023 will be another great year for electric vehicles

My Energi

million electric cars had been registered in the UK in the ‘modern’ EV era (since 2010), taking 12 years to reach that figure. For all the media hype around people potentially switching back to petrol or ditching the thought of an EV, it is important to remember that this is still very much a supply-constrained market.

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Opel Unveiling Vivaro e-Concept Extended Range Electric Van Research Study at the IAA Commercial Vehicles 2010 Show

Green Car Congress

At the IAA Commercial Vehicles Fair in Hannover (23-30 September 2010), Opel will unveil a research project on a Vivaro e-Concept, an electric van with up to 400 kilometers (249 miles) extended range. The Opel Vivaro e-Concept. Click to enlarge. The e-Concept is conceived to have 5.0

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How Efficient Is Your EV? It’s Complicated

Cars That Think

Environmental Protection Agency decreed in 2010 that the amount of thermal energy released by burning one gallon of gasoline is equivalent to 33.7 But the efficiency equation is more complicated than that because, unlike petrol pumps, recharging stations do not transfer energy perfectly. kilowatt-hours? Because the U.S.