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EV myths busted: Are electric vehicles safer than gas-powered cars?

Drive Electric

Issues like thermal runaway, electrocution, and reports of inextinguishable fires plagued the pioneering electric vehicles. Useful terms: Internal Combustion Engine Vehicle (ICEV) and Electric Vehicle (EV). Petrol and diesel vehicles both use internal combustion engines (ICEs). EV MYTH ONE: EVs catch fire more than petrol cars.

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Looking to get in a hybrid for cheap? Used Toyota Prius 1.5 HSD 2004-2009 Review

Green Car Congress

The other is the hybrid battery (nickel-metal in the Gen2), responsible for the charge and supplying the cabin with electricity, including the climate control. Yes, the climate control is also electric, making it also working when the 1.5 petrol engine is not running. Sometimes the engine water pump might leak.

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Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

My Electric Car

It is important to realize that a fuel cell car is actually an electric car. The Honda FCX Clarity FCEV and the Toyota Mirai FCEV, both use an electric drive motor and a battery pack. So, fuel cell cars have some of the advantages of pure fully electric cars.

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The #1 working mum’s guide to buying the perfect electric car

My Energi

What I do know, is how fossil fuel vehicles have contributed heavily to poor air quality in our towns and cities, damage to the environment, soil and water quality and have contributed to the depletion of the ozone layer! Which was the last petrol / fossil fuel car you owned? The last petrol car I owned was the Mazda 3.

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Volvo To Go All Electric By 2030 – EV Week in Review: Feb 23-Mar 1

EV Adoption

Volvo to go all electric by 2030 – Volvo announced that its entire car line-up will be fully electric by 2030 and joins GM, JLR, Ford Europe, and other automakers in stating their goals or “aspirations” (in the case of GM) – to end production of gas-powered vehicles by 2030 or 2035 depending on the OEM.

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India: Sales of Electric Cars - March 2023

Plug In India

By Kamlesh Mallick & Karthikeyan Palanisamy ​ Tata Motors continues to have no competition with electric cars at the start of 2023. For Tata Motors, 16 % of their passenger car sales is already fully electric! For Tata Motors, 16 % of their passenger car sales is already fully electric!

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Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV – Long-termer welcome

EV Central

Enter Mitsubishi’s Outlander PHEV, and a chance to establish, at least from my personal point of view, whether a Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle really is the bridge many Australians need to get over before adopting a fully EV lifestyle (which might, for some people, only arrive when an electric SUV with a 1000km battery eventuates).