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800-Volt EV Charging: The ?Other Palliative for Range Anxiety ???

Cars That Think

These handsome crossover SUVs might not be able to cruise for 7 hours on the highway, like the 500-mile-range Lucid Air. inch) wheelbase—longer than the company’s largest Palisade SUV—with excellent ingress and egress, outward visibility, and cavernous space inside. But overachieving charging may be this platform’s technical coup.

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EV sales in Norway explode ahead of policy changes

Push EVs

Similar magnitudes of pull-forward amplification were seen for the BMW iX, and i4, the Mercedes EQA, and EQE, the Hongqi E-HS8, and the Porsche Taycan. In terms of new arrivals, the most important right now is the new BYD Atto 3, which brings a fresh value proposition to the compact/mid SUV segment.

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Tale of Two 2,000-mile EV Rural Road Trips

Clean Fleet Report

Since it was not a Level 2 charger, I knew it would not gain much juice overnight. On the last day I knew I would have to get a full charge to make it back to Heathrow and leave it with enough juice for the driver who would collect it. Currently the only other cars with an 800-volt systems are the Porsche Taycan and Audi E-Tron GT.

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Prototype test drive: Lucid Gravity might defy segments

Baua Electric

Is that an SUV? The Lucid Gravity is the startup automaker’s upcoming crossover SUV, but in many ways it redefines the genre in terms of packaging, design, and how it drives. Lucid Gravity prototype Lucid’s electric SUV will be a chameleon It all comes down to the angle in which the Lucid Gravity is viewed. Is that a minivan?

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

EV Central

Striking thing, this electric SUV-cum-wagon. It’s mind-blowing, if not quite in the re-wire brain territory of the Porsche Taycan Turbo S. Day 4: Juicing Up Despite all my driving fun, I’m still returning just under Kia’s official consumption figure. That’s what they call this colour. The ton is up in 3.5

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Here's all the new electric cars or EVs coming to Australia in 2021

EVolution

The sister vehicle to the Porsche Taycan, the Audi RS e-Tron GT is the first Audi RS model to go fully-electric, beating rivals BMW M and Mercedes-AMG to market with emissions-free motoring. 13 The iX is BMW’s first electric SUV and features their ‘fifth-generation’ electric powertrain technology. Audi RS e-Tron GT. kWh/100 km.

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How does leasing an electric car work?

Drive Electric

It was only around 15 years ago that EVs could barely travel 50 miles before running out of juice. You can pay anything from under £150 per month for an EV lease, up to £1,000 and more for a top-of-the-range Tesla Model X or Porsche Taycan. No depreciation worries.