EV Central

MARCH 20, 2024

The battery electric Chevrolet Silverado EV full-size pick-up is not under consideration for Australia sale. The shock news was confirmed to EV Central at this month’s 2024 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD launch by Jess Bala, Managing Director of Chevrolet’s local outpost GM Australia and New Zealand. Trucks included.

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EV Central

AUGUST 7, 2022

The Electric Vehicle Council is calling for EV incentives to be linked to fuel efficiency standards as it ramps up its pressure on the Federal Government to introduce CO2 emissions standards. CO2 standards are key to that, according to Jafari. “We The key to any CO2 standards lies with the Federal Government.

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EV Central

APRIL 18, 2023

The federal government has confirmed it will introduce a mandatory fuel emission standard to encourage the take-up of electric vehicles. Car industry lobbyists, the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI), were recently exposed as having a secret emissions plan that would slow EV uptake. Apply on average to vehicles sold.

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EV Central

MAY 18, 2024

Firstly, it lands the Chinese maker in Australia’s biggest sales segment and, as a plug-in hybrid , it is BYD’s first ICE-powered , CO2-emitting vehicle to go on sale here following the launch of three BEVs since 2022 – the Atto 3 , Dolphin and Shark. litre four-cylinder petrol engine and an 18.3kWh BYD ‘Blade’ LFP battery.

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EV Central

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

If Australia does legislate an internal combustion engine ban in 2035 Nissan says it will be ready to comply. The Japanese brand has been an EV pathfinder in Australia, introducing the Leaf battery electric vehicle in 2012. On-sale in Japan since late 2021, an arrival in Australia in 2023 isn’t even confirmed.

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Plug In India

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

By PluginIndia In this article and video, we show the real truth on how Petrol and Diesel vehicles cause far more air pollution compared to electric vehicles. Some even say that it pollutes even more than a diesel or petrol burning car. Diesel or petrol starts as oil, on average 1,798 meters below the surface of the earth.

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EV Central

MARCH 21, 2024

This includes when MY24 vehicles arrive in Australia,” an MG representative stated via email. In the press release announcing the new pricing, MG Motor Australia boss Peter Ciao said this move backed up the company’s support for the federal governmnet’s proposed NVES CO2 reduction scheme. “We

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EV Central

MARCH 30, 2024

But the GWM Tank 500 might also be the start of the future for large and highly capable off-road 4×4 wagons so widely liked in Australia. Instead of being diesel like virtually all its rivals, the Tank 500 is electrified via a petrol-electric hybrid powertrain. The petrol engine can run on 91 RON unleaded, claims an 8.5L/100km

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EV Central

AUGUST 10, 2022

Hertz is planning to lead the charge with electric rental cars in Australia – and it’s taken the next step with a batch of Polestar 2 EVs. Hertz also has some Tesla Model 3s in Australia as part of a global deal to take 100,000 vehicles from the current EV leader. READ MORE: How much does an EV cost to own in Australia?

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EV Central

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Globally, chairman Akio Toyoda has been consistent in questioning a sole focus on battery electric vehicles when it comes to lowering vehicle emissions. Locally, Toyota has yet to even put a BEV on-sale and, of course, it makes a fortune out of CO2 and particulate-emitting diesel SUVs and utes. But that’s 2024.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

While the MX-30 Electric’s now been discontinued, head to Mazda’s website and the petrol-powered MX-30 M Hybrid (which is the mildest hybrid known to man), quite comically, costs less than those ex-demo MX-30 Electrics. A petrol MX-30 Astina’s over $46,000 drive-away.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Last week’s Global Green Challenge in Australia threw a number of vehicles in the spotlight, after many of the competing vehicles showed amazing eco-credentials. In the Darwin to Adelaide run, the petrol driven Alto managed to complete the journey at an average consumption of 72mpg overall, an 18.5 per cent and 12.2

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Drive Electric

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Given New Zealand’s reliance on personal light vehicles, accelerating the uptake of e-mobility is an essential part of reducing emissions from transport. New Zealand should use Europe, not Australia, as the source of homologation vehicle standards in this Bill. Transport makes up 21 per cent of New Zealand’s total emissions.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

“I truly believe hydrogen is the UK’s best opportunity to build a world-leading industry which creates UK jobs, cuts emissions and is the envy of the globe.” Note the clarification of Zero Co2 at the point of use. Grey hydrogen: generated from natural gas or methane through a process called steam reforming, producing GHG emissions.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

According to Australia’s GoAuto, the new Ford Fiesta Econetic diesel, which has fuel consumption of 63.6mpg under the Australian combined fuel test cycle, has lower fuel consumption than the third generation Prius at 60mpg under the same test cycle. By contrast, the Ford Fiesta Econetic diesel has an emissions rating of 98g/km.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

So far Israel, Denmark, Australia , Hawaii and California’s Bay Area have plans to implement the Better Place model. The idea of self-sufficient cities is gaining currency in the European Union, which has set itself the ambitious task of cutting carbon dioxide (CO{-2}) emissions to one-fifth below 1990 levels by 2020 ? — AH2 14.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

It will appear in Europe next year as the Opel Ampera and in Australia as the Holden Volt in 2012. South Korea did that and Australia is going to be doing that. Generating electricity from wind and geothermal rather than a CO2 producing sources would help alleviate that problem. The car is expected to cost around $40,000.

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