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An e-scooter, a PHEV and an angry man

EV Central

It means you can travel, should you wish, a substantial distance between charges. And, if the idea of taking an e-scooter to your home power point sounds too much like hard work, V2L (or vehicle-to-load) technology makes life even easier. Its charging time is 3-4 hours, there’s a top speed of 32km/h and it weighs 12.5kg.

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Should you rent an EV for a family holiday?

EV Central

Sure, it’d be a gamble fraught with charging uncertainty. But Europe’s embraced EVs faster and more enthusiastically than we Aussies, so surely the charging infrastructure is more commonplace, reliable, cheaper and efficient? A stuck charging cable. Holiday days planned around EV charging. Charging is Easy!

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

In the 1990s, batteries had far less capacity than they do today, and for the small community of EV users, the prospect of running out of juice and becoming stranded was very real. In such an emergency, a bidirectional EV with charge to spare could come to the rescue. Advocates believe that V2G can help pay for EV batteries.

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Visit to Cellestial E-Mobility : Electric Tractor startup

Plug In India

The flywheel is downsized to give a continuum between shift of gears, else unlike a ICE engine, when you take your leg off the pedal, the motor goes zero torque when you are re-engaging gears. The Cellestial team thinks that the battery has enough juice to do 1.5 Sounds like an interesting idea. to 3 hours of hard labour.

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

EV Central

It’s mind-blowing, if not quite in the re-wire brain territory of the Porsche Taycan Turbo S. Very cool and ideal to charge phones, your laptop, coffee machine, widescreen TV or even bar fridge. Day 4: Juicing Up Despite all my driving fun, I’m still returning just under Kia’s official consumption figure.

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Udaipur to Himachal : 923 km in an electric car

Plug In India

A distance of 923 km using DC fast charging infrastructure. We then went on to do a slow charge upto 100%. We had to charge it to 100 percent - and decided that we will come down after an hour to switch off the connection. There was a power outage at 2145 hrs and the charging stopped. It restricts the power to 1 bar.

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World Earth Day & The Green Reset

My Energi

If you’re feeling inspired by all these money saving tips and want to go bigger, why not spend this week looking into grants and schemes available from the government such as the Energy Company Obligation (ECO). Step away from them screens for a few hours and get your creative juices flowing! Cooked too much?

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