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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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Both share the same 82.56kW battery (and both get Vehicle to Load so you can use it to power your devices) which delivers a driving range of 482kms in the Premium, and 456km in the Performance. The Sealion 7 can draw up to 11kW AC charging, or 150kW DC fast charging. The battery is backed for eight years or 160,000kms.

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Electrifying Dreams – Bill’s Ultimate DeLorean EV Conversion

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Without any prefab kits, he swapped in the Bolts drivetrain, battery pack, and electronics, fabricating custom mounts, axles and 3D-printed interior components to make it all work. Adding DC fast charging and possibly tackling a Nash Metropolitan EV conversion. The result? His next challenge?

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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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The entry-level EV3 costs from a respectable $48,990 drive-away, the Air Standard Range offering 436km range from its 58.3kWh battery. Its 81.4kWh battery delivers an impressive 563km range, while specification digs into Kia’s box of luxe for a rather sumptuous cabin. The entry-level EV3 with smaller battery does it in only 7.5

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Overhauled! 2025 GWM Haval H6 medium SUV lays down the challenge to 2026 Toyota RAV4 PHEV with advanced plug-in hybrid tech

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litre petrol-turbo with two electric motors to produce 240kW/540Nm Thanks to a 19.09kWh lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery, GWM claims the updated H6 can travel up to 106km on EV alone during NEDC testing, averaging just 1.0L/100km. Total range for the plug-in hybrid is said to be 1106km with a full tank and topped-up battery.

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Tips for Wintertime Off-Road Travel: How to be Best Prepared

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A good first step is to make sure your vehicles battery is in great shape and fully charged. Nows not the time for a battery failure. We tossed ours into the back of the Pajero and once it thawed, we re-rolled it for future use. Bring spare batteries for anything chargeable, too. Keep this in mind when using them.

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KIT/IIT team demonstrates suitability of high-entropy oxides (HEO) as conversion materials for reversible energy storage

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Novel materials can considerably improve storage capacity and cycling stability of rechargeable batteries. With HEO, electrochemical properties can be tailored, as was found by scientists at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). An open-access paper on their work is published in the journal Nature Communications. Sarkar et al.

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Renault Group and Phoenix Mobility launch electric retrofit of commercial vehicles; Renault Master kit first

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Renault Group and Phoenix Mobility , a Grenoble-based company specializing in the conversion of commercial vehicles to electric power, have signed a letter of intent to form a strategic partnership for the development and commercial operation of a retrofit kit, the first of its kind in the French LCV market.

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