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Premium EV bargain hunting? 2024’s best cut-price prestige electric buys

EV Central

Crayon paint ($5000), body-coloured 21-inch Mission E Design wheels ($11,400), panoramic roof ($3370), Sports Chrono pack ($2360) and all-important longer-range Performance Battery Plus ($12,020). Not easy shedding almost $100k in a year, but that’s the case for an ex-demo 4000km-old ’22 BMW i7 limo up for sale in Victoria.

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EV myths busted: Are electric vehicles safer than gas-powered cars?

Drive Electric

Electric vehicles have historically received a bad reputation for concerns around safety. Issues like thermal runaway, electrocution, and reports of inextinguishable fires plagued the pioneering electric vehicles. Useful terms: Internal Combustion Engine Vehicle (ICEV) and Electric Vehicle (EV). THE BOTTOM LINE.

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Mazda Australia’s embracing PHEVs, but is it too late?

EV Central

Positively put, they offer emissions-free electric driving most of the time, but a petrol engine backup when you need it – very handy, thanks. But is Mazda about to go big on PHEVs as markets – including Australia – increasingly want to swerve the half-way house and commit to a full battery electric car ?

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VIDEO: Driving a Tesla-powered Smart

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Perhaps more interesting than the ride, at least for some electro-geeks, are some of the pictures Doug took of the battery pack on display that will go into the electric smarts. I wish the thing was for sale as-is. For 20k at that size it should have been electric to begin with. o well I guess they think all yanks hate diesels.

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Convincing Consumers To Buy EVs

Cars That Think

With the combination of requiring all new light-duty vehicles sold in New York State be zero-emission by 2035, investments in electric vehicles charging stations , and state and federal EV rebates, “ you’re going to see that you have no more excuses ” for not buying an EV, according to New York Governor Kathy Hochul.

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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. Daimler/Mercedes Took over Daimler/Chrysler Sprinter PHEV program. Shifted earlier focus to all-electric Focus in 2011 with Magna.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

There are proponents of each method and, though all three could be used, it is possible that one or more might never make it in the real world or that another method might come to the fore. Currently, there are some industrial facilities that use battery swapping to replenish the energy stores of electric forklifts.