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Toyota bZ4X updated! Slow-selling Tesla Model Y rival gets more power, extra range and smooth styling. Arriving in Australia in 2025

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The headline news is smoother styling introduces a rejuvenated EV that gets a longer range, refreshed cabin, extra tech and more power as Toyota eyes up pinching a few sales off the Tesla Model Y. Fresh 20-inch alloy wheels have also been added, while gloss black arches are standard across the range. 2025 Toyota bZ4X. 2025 Toyota bZ4X.

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Seven day test: 2025 Leapmotor C10 Design EV. I’ll check back when you’ve finished it.

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Arriving as a full EV (as tested here) and a range extender hybrid , it’s the cheapest EV in its class, and roughly $10,000 under our land’s best selling Tesla Model Y. Not concentrating, leaving the lane, all bonging away and driving me nuts. I started my journey with 100 per cent charge and indicated range of 467km.

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2025 Kia EV3 Long Range GT-Line Seven-Day Test: Korea serves up a lesson in small SUV desirability

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That puts the brand’s new EV3 – it’s smallest electric car yet – in a tricky spot from the get-go. Style, smart layout, desirability, polished drive experience and grades to suit a few budgets are key, and Kia appears to have hit the target on all. Say you don’t need a larger electric SUV. How can it compete? It costs too much.

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2025 BYD Sealion 7 Review: Chinese giant unleashes its alternative to the Tesla Model Y Juniper in Australia

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So with Tesla confirming the long-awaited refresh of its Model Y (Australias best-selling EV, by the way), it was only a matter of time before BYD returned serve, with the brand now launching an all-electric vehicle into our most popular vehicle segment the mid-size SUV space. That vehicle is the Sealion 7. BYD Sealion 7 boot.

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Revealed: General Motors battery guru explains why lithium – not hydrogen – is central to our EV future

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That’s because – as Oury is at pains to point out – the lithium that currently powers electric vehicles, and other batteries, is almost as abundant as hydrogen anyway. You have got to get that from electricity. And where do you get that electricity from? But don’t expect it to happen any time soon.

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It’s a Toyota Aurion for the EV generation! Large electric Toyota bZ7 sedan confirmed for China, but we’re still waiting

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While Toyota drags its its heels when it comes to EVs in Australia, in China it’s about to welcome a fifth electric car to its lineup. Created as part of Toyota’s joint venture with GAC, a Chinese car-maker that intends to launch in Australia, the all-new bZ7 has been confirmed for a launch later this year. 2025 Toyota bZ7.

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Flash Drive: 2026 Toyota BZ EV

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A Major Step to Compete with the Best Toyota re-entered the electric vehicle world in 2023 with the BZ4X small SUV (after two earlier limited edition RAV4 EVs). Smooth looks, longer range, more power Front-Wheel Drive Single motor Horsepower: XLE: 168; XLE Plus and Limited: 221 0-60 mph: 8.0 seconds Battery: XLE: 57.7

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