EV Central

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We will get to how it all works in a moment, but the short version is that, while you still get a petrol engine with your electric motors, the former is only used to recharge the battery or deliver power to the motors — it never actually drives the wheels — giving you what Nissan calls an “EV-like” drive experience, and improved fuel efficiency.

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EV Central

MARCH 9, 2024

As well a different grille the Solterra has one other big point of difference from the bZ4X: it’s only available as a dual-motor all-wheel drive, whereas many rivals (including the bZ4X) also offer two-wheel drive versions. Yep, it’s not cheap and lags the impossible-to-ignore Model Y in key areas, including space, value and range.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 27, 2024

The Torslanda factory has been switched over to making electric motors for the brand’s lineup of full-electric cars. In the US, diesel never had the same traction, due the abundance of cheap gas. Petrol-burning engines are soon to see the same fate. Well, not exactly of yore , but at least it’s la fin for Volvo’s contribution.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 27, 2023

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. The most powerful F-150 Lightning will have up to 433kW and 1051Nm and be capable of faster acceleration than any petrol-powered F-150 before it.

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My Energi

AUGUST 18, 2023

According to insight from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), more than 30,500 second-hand battery electric vehicles (BEVs) changed hands in the second quarter of 2023, an 81.8% It might sound obvious, but the latest models have been designed to far outperform their petrol and diesel predecessors.

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Baua Electric

MAY 17, 2024

EVs wear through tires quicker, as they weigh more and their torque-rich motor systems tear away more persistently at the tread. So there is virgin carbon black from petrol; there is recovery of carbon black from pyrolysis; and now you have sustainable carbon black coming from the pyrolysis oil,” Roget summed.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The Honda FCX Clarity FCEV and the Toyota Mirai FCEV, both use an electric drive motor and a battery pack. The motors are highly efficient, they have the same torque characteristics and they are silent. Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2010

The journey data gathered is already showing that the current generation of vehicles are cheap to run as well as being comparable to petrol and diesel vehicles for speed, ease of use and daily journey distance. —Brian Price, lecturer in Engineering Systems and Management at Aston.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Fiat has ignored this week’s Geneva motor show and instead gone it alone revealing five all-new radical concepts including a battery-powered ute that it hopes will forge a new path to success in markets such as Australia. Fiat Concept Pick-Up. That car will then be followed by one new model every year.” The post Pick me up!

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Green Cars News

JUNE 2, 2009

With prices starting at £29,800 (and rising to £40,390), the A5 Cabriolet isn’t cheap. Running costs won’t be cheap either. litre TSI petrol engine officially consumes a decent-enough 41.5mpg, with CO2 emissions of 156g/km, placing it in Band G for road tax (£150 per year). Read the full Audi A5 Cabriolet road test.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Regardless, that’s still $26,000 over the cheapest petrol Toyota RAV4. But boy it ain’t cheap. Rough estimates show you’ll spend approximately $1700 a month for the $66,000 single motor BZ4X, or around $1900 monthly for the $74,900 dual motor BZ4X all-wheel-drive.

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Plug In India

AUGUST 21, 2022

Back in 2020 when we visited the Chetak experience center at FC road in Pune , we were told that the swing arm motor and the battery pack were imported from Bosch. We still are not sure about the motor and controller, but Bajaj must have localized them too. What do you guys think? The price definitely seems inflated in our opinion.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

LDV has announced the prices of its trio of new electric models – and they’re not cheap. . Plus, the eT60 drives only its rear wheels with a single electric motor (making 130kW/310Nm), something that instantly limits its appeal. All those prices are before on-road costs. It has seven seats arranged in a 2-2-3 configuration.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

READ MORE: Nissan and Mitsubishi micro EVs are the cheap electric cars we need. The big performance boost that’s one of its main selling points is delivered by a more powerful motor. That’s two seconds quicker than a Fiat 500e with the same 42kWh battery but an 87kW motor. It’ll top the Fiat Nuova 500e line-up.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Much has been achieved through fakery – ‘petrol’ engine note and gear shifts included – but there’s been no reason to hide this. Its twin motors offer 166kW/350Nm up front and 282kW/390Nm at rear, combining for a mighty 448kW/740Nm: it has almost twice the kW of a normal (and not exactly slow) AWD Ioniq 5.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Although such vehicles are more environmentally friendly than their petrol counterparts, there is a greener option that many governments seem to have overlooked: the electric bicycle. Some 800,000 are also sold each year in South East Asia, he says, where they replace the noisy and smelly petrol scooters that are ubiquitous in many places.

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EV Central

MARCH 22, 2023

2022 BMW iX M60 large electric SUV 551km: Polestar 2 Long Range Single Motor, $68,400 Cracking range for the price, the long range version of the Polestar 2 can be DC fast-charged from 10-80 percent charge in as little as 35 minutes. Not cheap, but a 95kWh battery, 446km range and 150kW DC fast charging are wins.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Alpha Ace Coupe – imagine a full-sized Aussie Racing Car but with an electric motor instead of a bike engine. Aston Martin Valhalla – AMG V8 engine heavily tweaked by Aston Martin topped off with two electric motors. litre four-cylinder teamed to an electric motor to make a 180kW PHEV good for up to 55km on electricity.

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EV Central

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

You can, in the genuinely sexy shape of the Peugeot e-2008 — the all-electric version of the brand’s impressive ICE-powered small SUV, having done away with the petrol motor in favour of a small-ish battery and a front-mounted electric motor. So, how does it stack up against its very solid competition?

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EV Central

JANUARY 15, 2024

Kia EV9 Earth – $106,500 Kia EV9 The long-awaited Kia EV9 has at last landed in Australia, with the sizeable three-row, seven-seat SUV putting family friendly electric motoring squarely on the table. It’s big, boxy and stuffed full of tech, and — in its flagship GT-Line grade — is faster than most petrol-powered hot hatches.

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EV Central

JANUARY 2, 2023

It won’t be cheap, but Audi’s e-Tron GT and its more potent RS e-Tron GT sibling promise big performance. But it’s what’s beneath the skin that promises to tempt plenty of people out of the big-powered petrol engines that have dominated at this end of the market. Audi e-Tron GT quattro. BYD Dolphin. Cupra Born. 2023 Cupra Born.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Unlike the recently launched Genesis GV60 – which is built on a bespoke EV architecture – the GV70 Electrified takes the familiar underpinnings of a GV70 running on petrol or diesel and adapts them to EV life. The GV70 has two motors, one on each axle, and a 77.4kWh battery pack. Each motor makes 160kW and 350Nm.

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EV Central

JANUARY 6, 2024

The 250kW/679Nm dual-motor all-wheel drive e-Tron 55 Quattro is pricier, at $108,500 plus on-roads. There’s already a single motor option with a dual-motor version in the works. That means a front-drive single-motor setup. Sharing its architecture with the Volkswagen ID.3 BYD ute BYD ute patent.

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EV Central

JULY 7, 2022

But whereas the EV6 is based on a dedicated EV architecture, the Niro relies on an ICE platform to allow for the petrol engine for the hybrid model. But even as a hybrid the Niro doesn’t come particularly cheap. Kia Niro EV GT-Line is equipped with a single electric motor. Motors : 1 front 150kW/255Nm. 0-100km/h : 7.8

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Green Charging

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

We do not want to waste money on cheap, low-quality commodities. It’s because a motor drives these vehicles, while the rechargeable batteries provide power to run the engine. With the recent UK Government announcement to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel powered vehicles by 2030 , the switch to EVs is inevitable.

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EV Central

JULY 4, 2022

Speaking of the Turbo variants, the GTS borrows its electric motors – one on each axle – but bespoke adapted for the new model. Not cheap, but it ups the racy ambience. With our comical current petrol prices, a decent Taycan inclusion is a three-year Chargefox subscription. 2022 Porsche Taycan GTS. Range : 485km ( WLTP ).

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EV Central

MAY 11, 2023

The money buys an electric motor over the front as well as the rear axle (upping the power and torque), making the 350 all-wheel-drive. The high torque numbers for each help deal with such heft rather impressively, perhaps most so in the cheapest single-motor rear-drive 300. And, to my mind, not $20,000 quicker. That said, 3.5

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Department of Energy has invested in research projects like the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to advance EV technologies, such as advanced batteries and energy-efficient electric motors.

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EV Central

AUGUST 9, 2023

Day 5: Let’s find some corners My motoring writing colleagues had said compelling things when testing the EV6 GT on a race track. I bet the brakes would take a pasting, and those 21-inch Michelin Pilot Sport 4s aren’t going to be cheap to replace after a few track sessions. seconds to crack 100km/h. I shall miss it.

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EV Central

JULY 10, 2022

Tesla Model 3 Rear-Wheel Drive, Kia EV6 Air, Hyundai Ioniq 5 RWD, Polestar 2 Single Motor Long Range. In each instance we’ve chosen the most affordable options using a single electric motor for propulsion, although in the case of the Polestar it had options fitted. Each of our quartet has a single electric motor driving two wheels.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2023

EVs ain’t cheap Price is another EV purchase risk that is comparable to EV range. However, how long it takes to hit the break-even point depends on many factors , like the cost differential of a comparable ICE vehicle, depreciation, taxes, insurance costs, the cost of electricity/petrol in a region, whether charging takes place at home, etc.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Cheap to run but expensive to buy, they offer theprospect of low or zero carbon emissions, but manufacturers won’t sell themunless motorists want to buy them – and motorists won’t buy unless the priceis right and there are enough places to charge the batteries. So the car uses an electrical store to power the drive motor.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

And in a true smart grid, electric cars will not only be able to draw on electricity to run their motors, they will also be able to do the reverse: send electricity stored in their batteries back into the grid when it is needed. In effect, cars would be acting like tiny power stations. — AH2 14.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

We do have EV vehicles in our corporate however the collection of gross sales and inquiries are much less,” said Ahmad Firoozi, a marketing manager from the Qatari distributor Nasser Bin Khaled Automobiles, which works with brands like MG Motor, and Geely-Volvo joint venture Lynk & Co.

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EV Central

MARCH 27, 2023

For families, the bottom line is usually more important than dual motor acceleration or fancy seat trim that kids just wipe muck over anyway. Not cheap, but there still feels like decent value here. Service intervals are annual or every 25,000km, and aren’t cheap for an EV. You can drive one away for a whisker under $100k.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

A mid-spec EV9 Earth is around $120,000 in the traffic, while the entry-level Air is a comparatively cheap $107,000. Anyway, the GT-Line has dual motors, all-wheel-drive, 283kW/700Nm and 505km range (WLTP) from its lardy 99.8kWh battery. As a single motor it takes 8.2-seconds For you NSW lot, it’s $140,200.

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