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REPAIRING EVS IN NEW ZEALAND

Drive Electric

EVs are powered with an electric motor and inverter rather than an internal combustion engine, their internal components are radically different to ICEVs. If you currently own an EV or are considering buying one, learning how to use the repair kits will save you a lot of trouble if you’re dealing with a flat on the go!

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Indian carmakers set to propose import duty rollback, but Tesla will miss out

Teslarati

The rollbacks will only affect car factories run in Britain, which includes Nissan, BMW, and Jaguar Land Rover. Then, without having adequate demand, they would spend hundreds of millions of dollars to build a factory in a country where an inadequate number of customers buy the cars.

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Tesla Inside: The Ultimate Vintage Land Rover Retrofit

Cars That Think

From the outside, this Land Rover Defender looks like any other example of the postwar British classic that conquered the African outback—and the automotive world’s heart. Rover estimates that 70 percent of these hardy survivors—beginning with the Land Rover “Series” models, with the “Defender” name added in 1990— remain on the road.

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Road Test: 2023 Ranger Rover Sport SE Dynamic Mild Hybrid

Clean Fleet Report

Supercharged + Turbocharged Luxury Editor’s note: Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is at the beginning of a transformation. The 74-year-old Land Rover part of JLR is embarking on what it calls “reimagination,” entailing a new focus on three “families”—Range Rover, Defender and Discovery. The exterior is smooth and classy.

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Charging piles will become standard in new buildings in the UK

Setec Powerr

Johnson signed a bill at the end of 2020 that would ban the sale of cars that run entirely on internal combustion engines from 2030. These include Jaguar, which is owned by Jaguar Land Rover, and Bentley, the British carmaker owned by Volkswagen. Several British car brands already have plans for full electrification.

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What Are The Benefits of Driving an Electric Car?

Drive Electric

That’s the same as the very thirsty Land Rover Discovery Sport 2.0L. The audible whine imitates the frequency of a traditional internal combustion engine, and adapts to how fast the vehicle is travelling. The chip-shortage has made it difficult to buy any vehicle; electric or otherwise. Availability. The future is now.

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UK EPSRC awards almost $10M to two low-carbon vehicle technology projects; energy storage, engines and fuels

Green Car Congress

It will draw on expertise in departments of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials and Manufacturing and be informed by an Industrial Advisory Committee that includes companies such as Jaguar Land Rover, Johnson Matthey and Intelligent Energy, a company founded on Loughborough University research.