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Should you rent an EV for a family holiday?

EV Central

Rent a petrol or diesel car for your holidays. In many places, electric cars are cheaper to rent than equivalent petrol cars. And as Europcar says on its website: Save on Petrol! Imagine having to register with a Shell servo before it let you pump petrol. I rent a Vauxhall Astra with petrol engine. But it lies.

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Test Reports : Ather 450X Gen 3 vs Ola Electric S1 Pro | Electric Scooter Comparison

Plug In India

We did not go in for mix mode because we wanted to find out what is the maximum juice that can be extracted out of the pack. For accident cases – the chassis repair costs are going to be high, because of the all aluminium body. Even petrol vehicles are prone to fires, even after a hundred years of engineering.

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Londoners gogoing electric

Green Cars News

The company, which offers short-term rentals of the all-electric Mega e-City from its base in Brixton, says that the petrol and diesel price hikes during the summer, and the government fuel duty increase in September, have made people look again at the cost of motoring by traditional means.

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Lessons from a year with solar power

EV Info

With two Electric cars, at the time a Nissan Lean and Mitsubishi Outlander, we use a considerable amount of electricity but not much petrol, so already we were a reasonable way down the less CO2 road. According to the Department for Business, the average cost for standard electricity in the UK in 2020 was 17.2p/kWh. See [link].

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Electric Car Watch #1: Electric Car Disruption will destroy ICE Car Market | ? ?

Plug In India

Video: Electric Car Watch #1: Electric Car Disruption will destroy ICE Electric Car FUD The first thing I want to talk about is the constant FUD -- fear, uncertainty, and doubt -- regarding electric vehicles propagated by ICE car CEOs, the media, ICE-car-centric magazines and websites, and petrol heads. Imagine you have a petrol car.

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

EV Central

Then its stylishly integrated door handles, giant 21-inch five-spoke alloys, clamshell bonnet and strikingly detailed LED lights everywhere (I don’t want to think about their replacement cost). Day 4: Juicing Up Despite all my driving fun, I’m still returning just under Kia’s official consumption figure. I shall miss it.

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

Plug In India

It would be a good idea to retrofit this in existing Nexon's. Go to petrol pump owners and find out who are people who are big time consumers. One idea would be to cater to the commercial segment. Another idea that we discussed was using this for charging swappable batteries. This costs Rs. 5,000 upwards.