EV Central
JULY 4, 2023
Rent a petrol or diesel car for your holidays. That’s not the EV I booked … Who knew? In many places, electric cars are cheaper to rent than equivalent petrol cars. I pre-booked months in advance. And as Europcar says on its website: Save on Petrol! ” If you read no further, heed this advice.
Plug In India
MARCH 9, 2021
He has not used his Petrol cars and only uses the Nexon EV. So when Tata announced the Nexon EV with a range which seemed to be a practical 200 km, he just walked into the Tata showroom at Bangalore and handed them a cheque for the booking amount - no questions asked. He loves the instant acceleration and fun of driving an eletric car.
Plug In India
OCTOBER 18, 2021
Video: Electric Car Watch #1: Electric Car Disruption will destroy ICE Electric Car FUD The first thing I want to talk about is the constant FUD -- fear, uncertainty, and doubt -- regarding electric vehicles propagated by ICE car CEOs, the media, ICE-car-centric magazines and websites, and petrol heads. Imagine you have a petrol car.
Drive Electric
JULY 6, 2021
It was only around 15 years ago that EVs could barely travel 50 miles before running out of juice. This is in contrast to petrol and diesel cars, which will have progressively lower resale values as we move towards 2030 when new sales will be banned. From then on, it’s just a case of waiting for your delivery to be booked in.
Plug In India
JANUARY 15, 2022
Go to petrol pump owners and find out who are people who are big time consumers. With the cruise control on, managed to have a lovely conversation with Karthik on Jared Diamond’s excellent book Guns, Germs and Steel. (In Our booking was mistakenly done for the same day checkout. 5,000 upwards. It’s a Zen feeling.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
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. No single vehicle does it all even in todays petrol world. When you need to haul.
EV Central
MARCH 29, 2023
As I write, Polestar has closed order books for newly configured cars, but there are preconfigured ones available for near immediate delivery. And if you have experienced the raw thrill of doing 100km/h in under five seconds in a petrol car, I’m afraid doing so via electric power just doesn’t get the juices flowing the same way.
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