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Test drive: 2024 Hyundai Ioniq 6 overshadows Model 3

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Its streamliner design features a front end that arguably has Porsche Panamera and GM EV1 vibes. The Tesla Model 3, for now, might be easier to live with on the basis of the Supercharging network and a better app experience, but both of these merits are fleeting. It’s clunky and feels a full step behind competitors.

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Grabbing the prime real estate for electric truck charging hubs

Charged EVs

Charging-as-a-service is a popular option for fleet operators who want to focus on their core businesses and let experts handle the charging infrastructure. Zeem’s fleet-as-a-service model adds vehicle leasing and ancillary services to the equation. How many vehicles in your fleet? So we started focusing on the services.

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Q&A with CharIN North America President: It’s all about interoperability

Charged EVs

Charged : Do you see that as just something for fleets, heavy-duty vehicles, or could that have applications to passenger vehicles too? Charged : I was just speaking to someone at the Environmental Defense Fund about charging large, heavy-duty vehicle fleets. I believe it has enormous potential for consumers as well as fleets.

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Kia Niro EV review: All-electric SUV arrives to sit below the EV6

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While brief, the original Niro’s fleeting lifespan also helped Kia Australia better understand the EV market and what consumers want. But even as a hybrid the Niro doesn’t come particularly cheap. Australia received the Niro very late in its model cycle and it was never intended to be a stayer. Kia Niro EV GT-Line interior.

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Driven: Mercedes-Benz EQE sedan range

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As Benz’s fleet transitions to full electrification (2030 is the current target), the stalwart E-Class as we know it is on borrowed time. It lacks the visual drama of Porsche’s Taycan or Audi’s e-tron GT , but that will suit those favouring the understated.

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The right way to get oil-rich West Asia to pressure electrical vehicles? Chinese language EV makers contemplate

Baua Electric

Also Read : Hyundai to build factory for EVs in oil-rich Saudi Arabia The UAE is investing as much as 200 billion dirhams ($55 billion) by 2030 to transform its energy strategy, and has pledged that EVs and hybrid cars will make up more than 50% of the national fleet by 2050, from 4% currently.