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Could a tiny $30,000 2024 Hyundai Casper electric SUV challenge the BYD Dolphin and MG4 in Australia?

EV Central

Just build it! EVCentral’s Korean Casper test Developed to an ultra-low price of “less than €20,000” ($A33,000), Hyundai hopes the Casper EV will democratise electric cars in Europe, while fending off the new wave of cheap electric cars from the likes of MG and BYD. Read more: An electric Hyundai Casper?

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Is misinformation putting the brakes on the used EV market?

My Energi

1] Used plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) also grew in popularity, with sales up 11%. The used EV market should be thriving – and such impressive growth figures suggest that progress is building fast. Indeed, as a percentage of total used car sales, plug-in vehicles comprise less than 2% of transactions.

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EV ute overload: The electric pickups coming soon

EV Central

The local importer has confirmed the BYD ute will be tested in Australia in late 2023 and 2024 ahead of an on-sale later in 2024. litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine with two electric motors, providing about 100km of EV range as well as the ability to travel further on petrol.

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The Inefficiency of Car Buying

Clean Car

Buying a New Car is inefficient, its no wonder that electric vehicle sales are still pretty low. They don’t care that its an end of line car with an older engine and a socket for a nokia 6310, its cheap and its better than what they are driving today. Electric vehicles are zero-emissions meaning the air we all breathe is cleaner.

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Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

My Electric Car

In addition, it is subject to similar refining, storage and distribution costs currently associated with petrol and diesel, including upstream CO2 emissions where the electricity required is usually generated from fossil fuels. Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term.

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Will green cars put industry on road to profit?

Green Cars News

Here in the UK we’re so downtrodden by extortionate petrol prices that the prospect of driving fuel efficient green cars carries obvious appeal. While sales of vehicles slumped all around in the US, it was the fuel efficient cars that took arguably the biggest hit. Does something need to be done to push petrol prices up?

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Rajiv Bajaj's Chetak has a New Factory & Sad State of Auto Media

Plug In India

Why scale up like OLA electric and let customers face issues with software, build quality, etc.? The Ex-Showroom price of the Chetak to set at a whopping Rs 1,94,061 FAME 2 subsidy of Rs 43,500 In states like MH, you get a state subsidy of Rs 10,000 The onroad price is Rs 147,064 which is not cheap. Or I can be cynical of this move.

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