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EV ute overload: The electric pickups coming soon

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litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine with two electric motors, providing about 100km of EV range as well as the ability to travel further on petrol. The most powerful F-150 Lightning will have up to 433kW and 1051Nm and be capable of faster acceleration than any petrol-powered F-150 before it.

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

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Snaring a Kia EV6 GT for test is like scoring F1 race day pit passes. Our more grown-up review of the flagship Kia EV is here. Our more grown-up review of the flagship Kia EV is here. There’s something far more reassuring when getting in the $72,590 Kia EV6 Air and seeing 528km range remaining. 2023 Kia EV6 GT – 3.5

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2023 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV long-term review: Laziness destroys our fuel savings, but plug-in potential is clear

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At EV Central , we have spoken to people who’ve driven tens of thousands of kilometres in an Outlander PHEV and barely visited a fuel station (in fact, one only did so because the petrol in his tank was getting stale). We asked Kia CEO Damien Meredith whether he thought PHEVs were a “dead end” in this country. I’m just a bit lazy.

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

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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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The ultimate guide to buying an EV in Australia: This is everything you need to know

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Tesla Model Y Rear-Wheel Drive display showing energy use While they’re more accurate, even the more realistic WLTP figures still need to be pulled back at least 10 percent to give a realistic idea of how far the car will travel from a full battery to empty. Think of it as the electrical equivalent of litres in a petrol or diesel car.

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Electric Car Watch #1: Electric Car Disruption will destroy ICE Car Market | ? ?

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Video: Electric Car Watch #1: Electric Car Disruption will destroy ICE Electric Car FUD The first thing I want to talk about is the constant FUD -- fear, uncertainty, and doubt -- regarding electric vehicles propagated by ICE car CEOs, the media, ICE-car-centric magazines and websites, and petrol heads. Imagine you have a petrol car.

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The electric year ahead: Every EV coming to Australia in 2023

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But it’s what’s beneath the skin that promises to tempt plenty of people out of the big-powered petrol engines that have dominated at this end of the market. Like the larger iX3, it shares a body and architecture with the petrol-powered models. The $297,900 plus on-roads price tag is about 10 percent more than the petrol-fed 7-Series.