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New EV electric car calendar

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ACE-EV X1 Transformer – Australian-based start-up plans a small range of affordable EVs focused on light commercial duties. $5 5 million government grant was awarded in the 2020/2021 budget to help set up Adelaide-based manufacturing facilities. For a car that’s long been about light weight it’ll be a big change.

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Tesla Model 3 vs Kia EV6 vs Polestar 2 vs Hyundai Ioniq 5: Which one is the best EV in Australia?

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Granted, the recently-arrived Tesla Model Y makes just as much sense, but it wasn’t available as we were pulling this test together. Ambient lighting glows around the wood finishes and the door handles reinforce the tactility and attention to detail. The Kia also relies on lights, but in a different way.

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2024 Kia EV9: why you should buy the Air, not the too-expensive GT-Line

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Perhaps the brothel-like red ambient light (see below) didn’t help matters, but you can choose from 64 alternative colours. You could buy an EV9 Air, then something like a petrol Kia Cerato hatch as a second car with the money saved. The Air’s standard kit’s hardly wanting.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

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If you build a car as a "kit car" with no real factory, then yes, it will never be an economic success. Why grant them the privledge to spend our money in the first place? Posted by: Mike99 | Apr 13, 2009 6:25:20 PM The EV1 was an engineering Success. The EV1s failure was a failure of Management. billion" is needed to do what exactly?

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