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Should you rent an EV for a family holiday?

EV Central

A shitty obscure Chinese electric car. Dropping to just 3km range when Chinese EV refused to charge. That’s not the EV I booked … Who knew? I pre-booked months in advance. I note my booking said: Hyundai Kona Electric or similar compact SUV. How spectacularly naive. The nightmares were often.

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Electric Car Watch #1: Electric Car Disruption will destroy ICE Car Market | ? ?

Plug In India

In India, even though it is not an electric car, the OLA electric scooter got bookings worth Rs 1,100 CR. There are a large number of established Chinese electric car makers: BYD, SIAC, XPENG, NIO, WULING, CHERY, and more. Chinese auto will play a significant role in the auto industry in the future. Think about that.

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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

Plug In India

And he assured me that Oben is not taking the Chinese assembler route to market. With the cruise control on, managed to have a lovely conversation with Karthik on Jared Diamond’s excellent book Guns, Germs and Steel. (In For me it turned out to be a good tech demonstrator for what makes BYD the king of Chinese roads.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Therefore, until we get quick-charge batteries -- based on new breakthroughs, Ill take a WAG and estimate that we will have real 5-minute quick-charge batteries in perhaps 10 years -- we are likely to get our juice mostly from our home chargers. Read reviews, get free pricing, and much more. gallon Speculawyer on DOE announces $41.9

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

A simple, clean, efficient EV that wont run out of juice because of its on-board gas generator. Posted by: GSP | Apr 14, 2009 9:07:50 AM Funny, BYD (chinese) already came out with their version of the volt this year. GM cant do it but a 15 year old chinese car company can.now thats funny!

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