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Gigantic Chinese Nio ET9 electric car guns for German limos with advanced battery tech that adds 255km in less than five minutes

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China’s Nio has pulled the drapes off the Nio ET9 it hopes will steal sales from luxurious European brands Mercedes-Maybach, Bentley and, even, Rolls-Royce when it lands in China in 2025 priced from 800,000 yuan ($165,000). Feeding both current is a large 120kWh battery of unknown chemistry. 2025 Nio ET9 interior.

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Update: Top 10 Electric Cars

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Almost two-thirds of the battery electric cars sold in the U.S. The roomy Model S luxury sedan now starts at about $90,000 with a 100 kWh battery pack and all-wheel drive, offering 405 miles of range. Volkswagen Group (which includes VW, Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini and Bentley in the U.S.) for 2016, followed by the Model X.

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New EV electric car calendar

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All the new electric cars, electric SUVs and electric utes arriving in Australia in 2021, 2022 and 2023. Alfa Romeo Tonale – the Italian brand finally has a rechargeable car in its ranks in the form of the Tonale PHEV compact SUV. Aston Martin DBX PHEV and EV – electrified versions of AM’s first SUV on the cards.

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Preview: 2025 Audi Q6 E-Tron casts a potent EV shadow

Baua Electric

Traffic cones fly by in the side windows like mailboxes on a country road until I let off the pedal and let “B” mode’s regenerative braking lasso this electric SUV down for a gradual right turn back into its parking spot. It’s a 100-kwh (gross) battery pack that can use up to 94.4 kwh of that capacity. Audi quotes a 0-60 mph in 5.0

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Best EVs of 2022: Our verdict on the new electric cars of the year

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Tesla briefly entered the list of top sellers, with the Model Y also topping the SUV sales charts in September. Throw in one of the best sound systems of any new car – that includes Bentley, Rolls-Royce, Mercedes-Benz, etc – and you have a tempting package that plays in the EV sweet spot. BYD Atto 3.

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Tesla Inside: The Ultimate Vintage Land Rover Retrofit

Cars That Think

The car holds about 100 kilowatt-hours’ worth of lithium-iron phosphate (LFP) batteries—a lower-cost approach used for the Teslas sold in China and Europe (and. We said, ‘Let’s take a British farm vehicle and turn it into a luxury SUV for the American market,’ ” Wallace recounts during my tour of E.C.D.’s

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Polestar 5 will be brand’s top model from 2025

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Volvo had been bought from Ford by big Chinese car maker Geely in 2010. Early next year the Polestar 3, a sleek, five-seat SUV, will join the 2. Within months it will be joined by another sporty SUV, the smaller Polestar 4. In 2017 Geely and Volvo announced Polestar would be spun off as a stand-alone brand focused on EVs.

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