EV Central
JANUARY 22, 2024
The global auto giant Stellantis has done a deal with a French battery-maker to secure fresh sodium-ion battery technology for its future EVs that could see electric cars finally undercut petrol cars on purchase price. Has Stellantis cracked the code for super-cheap EVs that will undercut ICE? The post Battery revolution!
Porsche 914 EV Conversion
OCTOBER 12, 2007
As described in a previous post, I purchased a piece of ABS plastic from TAP plastics and bent the edges to make a rain catch. Since the new rain gutter sits much higher than the old one, I added some cheap 99 cent funnels from the hardware store and cut them so that the top was level with the ground.
Porsche 914 EV Conversion
JUNE 22, 2007
I ran out and purchased several 1-guage pre-constructed battery cables from Napa today to wire the batteries together, but they were very expensive (16 of them at $12.95 FreeGeek sells those supplies for about $20 ($10 if you volunteer more than four hours there - cheap!). I'm curious what else is in this shipment.
EV Central
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
Audi e-Tron GT – the BEV guts of the regular e-Tron (also shared with Porsche’s Taycan) in a coupe-inspired four-door body. Lotus Eletre – the reinvention of Lotus is starting with a large Porsche/Lamborghini-fighting performance with 600km of range. Look out Porsche Macan! Audi RS e-Tron GT. Due in 2022.
EV Central
JANUARY 6, 2024
At that price it just sneaks in under the government’s FBT exemption, which allows for electric cars below $89,332 to pay no fringe benefits tax when purchased via a novated lease. None of which will be cheap, the Polestar 3 is priced from $132,900 before on-roads. Sharing its architecture with the Volkswagen ID.3
Cars That Think
JANUARY 23, 2023
Even if interest in purchasing an EV is increasing, close to 70 percent of Americans are still leaning towards buying an ICE vehicles as their next purchase. In the UK, only 14 percent of drivers plan to purchase an EV as their next car. EVs ain’t cheap Price is another EV purchase risk that is comparable to EV range.
Charged EVs
APRIL 19, 2023
What’s your vehicle purchasing schedule?” Washington state has an abundance of power very cheap from all the hydro. It’ll charge anything—a bus, a truck, a Porsche, doesn’t matter. That’s a big basis of our business. We know all the utility make-ready programs across the US. It’s first-come, first-served at the utility.
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