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Should you rent an EV for a family holiday?

EV Central

Those exact words came from my wife’s mouth when I suggested we rent an electric car for a week’s family holiday in France. Sure, it’d be a gamble fraught with charging uncertainty. A shitty obscure Chinese electric car. A stuck charging cable. Holiday days planned around EV charging.

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How To Survive the Winter Driving an EV

Clean Fleet Report

Tips for Electric Cars To Navigate the Cold Stuff. Here are some tips on how to keep your EV charged and running smoothly during the colder months. But unlike traditional gas-powered cars, electric vehicle batteries do not last as long in extremely cold weather. Keep your EV Battery Charged. Keep charged.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

The concept behind V2G had gained traction in the late 1990s after California’s landmark zero-emission-vehicle (ZEV) mandate went into effect and compelled automakers to commercialize electric cars. In the early years of the automobile, battery-powered electric cars were competitive with cars fueled by gasoline and other types of propulsion.

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Visit to Cellestial E-Mobility : Electric Tractor startup

Plug In India

Basically, like we see with Nexon and others from the electric car retrofit design, the engine gets replaced by a motor - and the story from there on remains the same for both ICE and Electric. The motor is a 4 kW brush DC motor. The Cellestial team thinks that the battery has enough juice to do 1.5 The pack weighs 60 kg.

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Seven-day test: Living with the Porsche Taycan RWD

EV Central

Add on-roads and the car you see here is well over $200,000 to drive away. This car features the Taycan S’s 19-inch Aero wheels ($2400) – not a bad option as the standard fit 19-inch jobs are a bit dull. We’re showing 100 percent charge and a range of 475km. This car’s 5.4 More than ample.

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Udaipur to Himachal : 923 km in an electric car

Plug In India

A distance of 923 km using DC fast charging infrastructure. Thanks to the Tigor’s great suspension, I was overtaking other cars on the rumbler strips at almost double the crawling speed that other cars had slowed down to. I realised the wisdom of the local cars’ slow speeds after the third rumbler.

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2023 Kia EV6 GT review: Mega-popular electric vehicle put to the seven-day test

EV Central

Demand for these rapid electric GTs is off the charts, so car folk look at you wondering how many brown envelopes were handed over so you could jump the queue. Feels a big car. It’s mind-blowing, if not quite in the re-wire brain territory of the Porsche Taycan Turbo S. What a great getaway car. That’s daft acceleration.

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