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Premium EV bargain hunting? 2024’s best cut-price prestige electric buys

EV Central

Could you be tempted by an ex-demo or lightly pre-loved premium electric car once they’ve shed dollars from scarily high original sticker prices? Not easy shedding almost $100k in a year, but that’s the case for an ex-demo 4000km-old ’22 BMW i7 limo up for sale in Victoria. Well played, Sir. Another six-figure tumble.

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Bargain hunting? The seven best used EVs under $40,000 in 2025

EV Central

Of the used ones, some MG4s being sold as ex-demos have only 10km showing, and are offered for $33,600 on the road. There are range extender versions with a little two-cylinder petrol engine, but city dwellers should target the full EV.

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Tesla demos super-fast battery swapping facility

Green Cars News

Hedging its bets, Tesla has proven that its Model S electric saloon is ready to use a battery swapping system of recharging, able to switch its depleted battery for a fresh, fully charged one in less than 90 seconds-faster than you can fill your car with petrol. In a live demonstration at its des[.]. Tesla Motors'

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Demo Plant built for gas-to-liquid process

Green Cars News

The group consists of oil developers Japan Petrol Exploration and INPEX Corp; engineering firms Chiyoda and Nippon Steel Engineering; refiners Nippon Oil and Cosmo Oil; as well as state-run energy researcher Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp. The Japan-GTL consortium opened the plant just days ago.

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Charging piles will become standard in new buildings in the UK

Setec Powerr

BEV sales in the UK have grown rapidly over the past year – with demand rising, at least in part due to petrol shortages, which dried up many motorists’ gas tanks in September. part of the mission.” ” Electric vehicle sales surge. All told, UK motorists bought just 5,000 fewer BEVs in September than in all of 2019.

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Mazda Australia’s embracing PHEVs, but is it too late?

EV Central

Positively put, they offer emissions-free electric driving most of the time, but a petrol engine backup when you need it – very handy, thanks. litre petrol engine, 100kW electric motor and 17.8kWh lithium-ion battery giving a total system output of 241kW and 500Nm, and rapid 5.8-seconds seconds 0-100kmh time.

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Chrysler outlines new strategy

Green Cars News

This uses a new balanced servo valve that delivers high accuracy in fuel injection quantity control as well as up to three per cent lower carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and up to 20 per cent fewer nitrogen oxide emissions. - Petrol engines: Chrysler plans to introduce the next generation Pentastar V6 in Q2 2010.