EV Central

MARCH 18, 2025

The all-new 2026 Mercedes-Benz CLA has been fully unwrapped with benchmark range claims ahead of its Down Under debut in the second half of next year. The first car to ride on Benz’s all-new MMA platform, the second-gen Mercedes CLA will be offered first with all-electric power or with a mild-hybrid powertrain to follow.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Porsche is launching the new Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid plug-in hybrid as the flagship of a model line for the first time. The boost strategy of the all-wheel drive Panamera comes from the 918 Spyder super sportscar. l/100 km (81 mpg US), and the new flagship Panamera can drive on fully electric power for up to 50 kilometers.

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EV Central

JANUARY 21, 2024

Porsche has begun building the anticipation for the launch of the all-new battery-electric Porsche Macan on January 25. READ MORE: Porsche Macan EVs hit the road ahead of 2023 arrival READ MORE: 2022 Porsche Macan EV revealed? 2024 Porsche Macan EV prototype test. 2024 Porsche Macan EV prototype test.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The 2025 MG Cyberster electric sports car has been priced from $115,000 plus on-road costs. That pricing means the first electric two-door convertible sports car to go on-sale in Australia will go up against some pretty strong petrol-powered opposition including the BMW Z4, new Ford Mustang, Nissan Z, Toyota Supra and Porsche Boxster.

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EV Central

AUGUST 21, 2024

Porsche is working on advanced battery analytics software that could soon provide owners of its electric vehicles with information on the health of the most expensive component of the car. Porsche is also readying the next generation of its 718 Boxster and Cayman , each of which will drop petrol in favour of electrons.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Shift aside Ferrari, Lamborghini and Porsche because McLaren has stepped up the supercar game with the W1. Yep, the sleek carbon-fibre two-seater utilises an electric motor teamed with petrol propulsion to create the radical McLaren W1 that has more power than an F1 car. litre twin turbo V8. The McLaren W1 is claimed to take 2.7

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

The Cyberster is priced from $115,000 plus on-road costs, placing it head-to-head with some highly-fancied sports car competition, including the BMW Z4, Toyota Supra and Porsche 718 Boxster. It all sounds pretty fancy, although the two outer screens are obscured by the steering wheel and the reversing camera isn’t overly clear.

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EV Central

JULY 6, 2024

Polestar 5 shows off ultra-fast 370kW charging With five seats and a raised body the Polestar 4 goes up against a broad range of electric SUVs, including the Ford Mustang Mach-E, BMW iX3, Audi Q4 e-Tron, Subaru Solterra and Toyota bZ4X. There’s one car Polestar nominates as the prime competition for the 4: the Porsche Macan EV.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

A mate bought a pre-loved Porsche Taycan RWD last week. But have you heard Porsche doesn’t mind charging for a few extras? 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).

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

A Williams Hybrid Power flywheel energy storage unit is at the heart of the new Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid. The vehicle recently completed the 1,000km of Zhuhai in China ahead of all other GT cars with fewer stops for petrol. This is largely thanks to the storage unit which includes Williams’ patented Magnetically Loaded [.].

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EV Central

JUNE 16, 2024

The all-new 2024 Lotus Emeya is officially one of the quickest EVs to charge. Although it should be put into context that is takes just two minutes to fill a fast Porsche Panamera with enough petrol to cover 310km, which means the Lotus takes five times longer to top-up. 50,000 price hack!

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EV Central

JULY 7, 2022

Now that nameplate newcomer is already being replaced by an all-new model – just a year after the arrival of the original. Whereas the original Niro was available as a regular hybrid , a plug-in hybrid (PHEV) and a battery electric vehicle (EV), the new model does without the PHEV option. Performance and efficiency.

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EV Central

MAY 20, 2024

Porsche has revealed more details about the first hybrid version of its iconic 911 sports car at the same time as it released official pictures of its lightly-disguised 992.2-series series 2025 Porsche 911 ahead of its May 28 debut. 2024 Porsche 911 Hybrid. 2024 Porsche 911 Hybrid. seconds faster than the current 911 GTS.

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EV Central

JULY 16, 2024

Porsche has expanded the new Macan family with confirmation of two additional variants, including the first ever two-wheel drive SUV from the performance car brand. As with all Macans, the rear motor is a Porsche-developed unit – and dedicated to Porsche applications – whereas the front motor is a shared development with sister brand Audi.

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EV Central

MAY 22, 2025

READ MORE: Call 911, Porsche is in trouble! litre turbo-petrol-electric plug-in hybrid system that will produce a substantial 550kW/760Nm. Combined with a 36.8kWh Blade lithium iron phosphate battery pack, the Bao 8 should come with an all-electric range of around 125km on the lenient CLTC test cycle. Brim the 91.5-litre

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EV Central

JANUARY 25, 2024

Porsche’s all-electric Macan has reset the performance benchmark for the mid-sized SUV category with an all-electric line-up that blasts to 100km/h in as little as 3.3 For now, Porsche has only shown two variants of the new Macan, the Macan 4 and Macan Turbo. seconds and covers up to 613km between charges.

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Baua Electric

MAY 4, 2024

Deliveries for the all-new Porsche Panamera will begin from today, the German brand has announced as the third-gen model makes its India debut. At the i nternational unveiling of the new Panamera , Porsche had said that bookings were to begin shortly. litre turbocharged V6 petrol mill that produces 353hp and 500Nm of torque.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 26, 2025

Stellantis has, like many automakers, been signaling that planned pivot toward all-electric vehicles hasnt gone as intended. From CAR : In March 2025, for example, Porsche rowed back on its EV commitments by announcing it was evaluating a new, petrol-powered SUV to compensate for the Macan EVs disappointingly slow sales.

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EV Central

JUNE 29, 2022

British-Chinese sports car specialists Lotus is confident it will win the race to become the first mainstream sports car manufacturer to offer an all-electric product range. German giant Porsche is pushing hard on EVs, with the Taycan already on sale and the next Macan SUV set to go electric. 2022 Lotus Evija hypercar.

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EV Central

APRIL 30, 2025

Sixteen halls, each substantially bigger than the entire Melbourne motor show, with around 100 auto brands on display hosting about the same number of global debuts almost all of them electrified in some way. Lynk & Co 900 electric SUV has Land Rover design influence and Mazda pricing, so why arent we getting it in Australia?

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EV Central

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Our International correspondent has his say It’s been a hell of a year for electric cars and it’s the sheer diversity of battery-powered vehicles I’ve driven that will be my biggest takeaway from 2024. READ MORE: Roll out the network: XPeng confirms its first four Aussie showrooms as G6 mid-sized SUV electric launches.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 13, 2025

litre twin-turbo V8 which produces 798 bhp and 729 Nm of torque, and is coupled with three electric motors achieving a total power of about 907 bhp. All of this is due to overpowering the previous track-only Audi R8 LMS GT2 with its power hitting a peak of 470kW.

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EV Central

JULY 4, 2022

Pity the Porsche Taycan buyer, if you can. Porsche will tell you this new Taycan GTS is an antidote for any procrastinators. That’s important for Porsche owners with an image to maintain, no matter if it actually ever sees a race circuit. 2022 Porsche Taycan GTS. 2022 Porsche Taycan GTS.

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EV Central

JANUARY 13, 2024

It’s time for our editors to vent about their electric car experiences and expectations! It delivers the feels, is a technological tour de force and is the first EV I’ve driven that comes close to the emotionally-involving experience of a performance petrol car. Okay, it costs $111,000. That’s about $120K on the road.

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EV Central

MAY 28, 2024

Porsche’s iconic 911 is about to get a whole lot quicker thanks to electricity as part of a major model update that introduces revised styling, more tech and a hybrid system. The new Porsche 911 T-Hybrid system comes as part of a major series two upgrade to the 992-generation car, known as 992.2.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Porsche’s Macan medium SUV is the sporting brand’s runaway best-seller in Australia and joins the larger Cayenne SUV to account for the bulk of Porsche sales. Even so, the Macan EV arrives with a $30,000-plus price hike over outgoing petrol variants. Don’t mess with a good thing? Well, too late for that.

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EV Central

JULY 31, 2024

Sales of electric cars continue to grow, but not in the triple-digit numbers we experienced throughout 2022 and 2023. Still, with growth of 18 percent in the first half of 2024 there’s plenty of interest in electric cars. Of the 34,425 sold in the first six months 17,052 were powered solely by electricity. That means 49.5

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EV Central

JUNE 22, 2022

Polestar has given its first glimpse and details of the upcoming Polestar 5, a four-door GT that plans to put Porsche on notice in the emerging EV performance car space. The Polestar 5 has evolved the Precept’s sleek, low-slung shape and has a whopping 650kW of power and 900Nm of torque running off a new 800V electrical architecture.

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EV Central

DECEMBER 7, 2024

If a Porsche 911s the benchmark sportscar, so the Carnivals the halo people mover. Buzz GTX hot MPV locked in for Australia Its biggest negative has been the petrol 3.5-litre litre four-cylinder turbo-diesels has been the less thirsty but pricier alternative, but now, finally, a petrol-electric hybrids here. Its quoted 5.8L/100km

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EV Central

MARCH 7, 2023

Surround it with electric motors to create the most powerful road car on the market. That suggests Lamborghini sees a prosperous future for the V12 despite the imminent banning of petrol-burning ICE in some parts of the world. Electric motors, on the other hand, are usually upwards of 90 percent efficient.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Created to rival the latest Lotus Eletre, the petrol-electric BMW XM and the next-generation Porsche Cayenne EV, the headline news is the AMG super-SUV has been developed from the ground up by AMG and is not spun-off any production Mercedes-Benz. architecture. architecture. The post Most advanced EV tech yet?

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EV Central

JUNE 5, 2024

More than 20 models – most of them electric and most of them all-new – are due over the coming years as Audi looks to refresh its model line-up and catch up luxury rivals who are further down the electric vehicle path. One of those models is the new Q6 e-tron , which shares much of its architecture with the new Porsche Macan EV.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2011

Volkswagen, in cooperation with 6 project partners and the German Ministry of the Environment, presented in Berlin the current status of the “Fleet study in electric mobility” that was initiated in July 2008. The German federal government is targeting one million electric vehicles in Germany by 2020. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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EV Central

JANUARY 10, 2025

A total of 91,292 pure battery electric vehicles (BEVs) were added to Australian roads throughout the year. READ MORE: Australians bought a record number of EVs in 2024 (just); Tesla still dominates, BYD, MG, BMW, Volvo catching READ MORE: Electric overload! Australians bought a record 91,292 EVs in 2024, an increase of 4.7%

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EV Central

MAY 29, 2025

His comments followed an Autoexpress interview where Volkswagen CEO Thomas Schafer confirmed to the UK magazine the next-generation front-drive Golf GTI and all-wheel-drive Golf R will be all-electric, with petrol-powered versions remaining until decades end. READ MORE: Electric Volkswagen ID. The latest Mk 8.5

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Drive Electric

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

If this is something that’s been on your mind, stepping into the world of electric motoring has probably crossed it too, making the switch to an electric car or van could help you improve your lifestyle in a wonderful new way. Are electric cars better for the environment? How much are electric cars? In a word, yes.

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EV Central

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Hyundai RN22e on-track video – come for a ride in this electric funster. But all is not as it seems. This is Hyundai’s RN22e prototype , a full-blown electric vehicle with aero-enhanced Ioniq 6 body and a range of tricks and treats to seemingly do the impossible: offer proper driver involvement in an EV.

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