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Should you rent an EV for a family holiday?

EV Central

A shitty obscure Chinese electric car. Dropping to just 3km range when Chinese EV refused to charge. I suggested to the Europcar lady that a mysterious Chinese EV with circa 300km range, no Euro NCAP safety rating or Apple CarPlay was not, in fact, similar to my beloved Kona Electric. How spectacularly naive. And gets you angry.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Featured stories Feed mophie Juice Pack Air hands-on and impressions How would you change HPs Mini 1000 Mi? MotionPlus Wiimote add-on ships to US on June 8th Toshibas leaked product roadmap gets us hot, extra bothered by fuel-cell powered L01 MID Nikon D5000 articulates its way into reality Android 1.5 Is this the Zune HD?

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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

Plug In India

And he assured me that Oben is not taking the Chinese assembler route to market. For me it turned out to be a good tech demonstrator for what makes BYD the king of Chinese roads. We had to download the app and put Rs 1000 in the wallet, even though we had to just charge 10 kWh. I hope Jay can also switch it off.)

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Therefore, until we get quick-charge batteries -- based on new breakthroughs, Ill take a WAG and estimate that we will have real 5-minute quick-charge batteries in perhaps 10 years -- we are likely to get our juice mostly from our home chargers. gallon Speculawyer on DOE announces $41.9