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Toyota RAV4 Prime: Green Car Reports' Best Car To Buy 2021 finalist

Green Car Reports

It’s Toyota’s first plug-in SUV since the “powered by Tesla” RAV4 EV from earlier last decade. It’s the quickest-accelerating vehicle in Toyota’s lineup, excluding its sports cars. The Toyota RAV4 Prime is all sorts of things, all at once.

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Tesla Model Y Performance versus Kia EV6 GT: Which is Australia’s best go-fast EV?

EV Central

They’re two of Australia’s most in-demand performance EVs — the Kia EV6 GT and Tesla Model Y Performance — and both will deliver all-electric thrills by the bucketload. Kia EV6 GT interior In the battle of the bucks the Tesla and Kia are pretty much neck and neck. Its sports seats means it misses out on electric adjustment up front.

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Lexus LBX, Tesla on the ‘Ring, Porsche Project X: This Year’s Manage Pictures

Baua Electric

2024 Lexus GX Lexus additionally offered a redesigned GX, and fanatics of the blocky wave era received’t be upset by way of the unutilized SUV. 2024 Lexus TX The 1/3 and ultimate debut from Lexus this year used to be the TX, a mid-size SUV with third-row seats, even though this age according to a car-like unibody platform.

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2025 Mercedes-Benz G-Class works on its quads (motors, that is)

Baua Electric

It has four motors, 579 hp, and an off-road heritage that goes back further than the Rivian R1S, GMC Hummer EV, and Tesla Cybertruck. The brakes are hydraulic-assist, the G EQ rides on 265/60R18 tires, and in default modes, it has a very SUV-like turning radius of 44.6 Riding on a 113.8-inch inch wheelbase, at 182.0 inches long, 76.0

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Kia Soul EV review: the cheap electric car Australia missed out on

EV Central

Delightfully and quirkily styled, good value and with excellent passenger space, it stood out like a shining, extrovert beacon next to the sea of homogenised, vanilla small SUVs. With that horror show of a Blue Oval mini SUV trouncing the Soul’s 485 sales that year, no wonder Kia Australia pulled it after a decade of trying.

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Tokyo 2023 revisited: Every electric concept debut from the best motor show in years

EV Central

Maybe Tesla and the Chinese aren’t just going to just roll over the rest of the auto industry after all. Even as Honda introduced its plans for driverless robot vehicles, the Prelude was intended to remind everyone that it would not be giving up on its sports heritage. Of course, concepts are one thing and production cars another.

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Cupra Born review: High five for Spanish compact hatch

EV Central

Electric cars the compact Born is priced close to include the Polestar 2 (from $63,900), Tesla Model 3 (from $65,500), Hyundai Ioniq 5 ($69,900) and Kia Niro (from $64,450). And yep, it’s not an SUV, there’s no black cladding or raised ride heights here. VW has confirmed the conceptually similar Volkswagen ID.3 2023 Cupra Born.