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2024 Toyota bZ4X AWD review: Why driving Toyota’s first electric car on dirt is like chucking a Giraffe in a pool … Really

EV Central

The Model Y will travel further, though, claiming 533km between charges, compared to the Toyota’s 411km. While its set up for DC fast charging, it’s limited to 150kW. The cheaper FWD model has everything you actually need – unless you’re the type to push a giraffe into a pool. SCORE: 3.7/5 SCORE: 3.7/5

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$0 Charging in Nearly 3 Years of Electric Car Life in Florida — Over

CleanTechnica EVs

One thing I’ve enjoyed sharing for the past 2 years and 9 months is that we’ve been living with electric cars during that time in Florida without home charging. We’re a one-car family, but […]. We had a BMW i3 REx for the first third of that time and a Tesla Model 3 SR+ since then.

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Iain Curry’s best electric car of 2023: Hyundai Ioniq 5 N

EV Central

It’s time for our editors to vent about their electric car experiences and expectations! With sensible hat on we can appreciate EVs with efficiency, long range, fast charging and silky silent smoothness. Rapid charging, V2L and liveable 448km range seal the deal. It shouldn’t be this hard.

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Volkswagen ID.3 electric car video review

Drive Electric

Henry talks you through all you need to know about this exciting electric car from Volkswagen ! The first being the Beatle and then the Golf and now we have Volkswagen’s all-new range of pure electric cars, the ID range of that. There are not many electric cars these days that have alloy wheels.

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Kia E-Niro electric car review

Drive Electric

The Kia e-Niro 64 kWh is a practical, family-friendly crossover with a 282-mile electric range and it’s one of the more affordable longer-range electric cars. Charging costs: Full charge costs £8.69 (calculated using UK average energy cost of 14p per kW) find out more about how much it costs to charge an electric car.

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Kia E-Niro electric car review

Drive Electric

The Kia e-Niro 64 kWh is a practical, family-friendly crossover with a 282-mile electric range and it’s one of the more affordable longer-range electric cars. The multi award-winning electric vehicle won ‘Car of the year’ back in 2019, as well as Best Electric Car 2020. Summary. ? Length: 4375 mm.

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We buy a used Porsche Taycan! Bargain price, 1000km road trip and charging dramas

EV Central

A Taycan’s DC charge port is behind the front left wheel, and Tesla chargers are designed for Teslas to back into position and recharge at their rear-mount ports. Arse-hole parking engaged: charging a Porsche Taycan RWD with a Tesla Supercharger. Road trip and charging challenges We leave Sydney at 2pm having done the deal.

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