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Electric cars buyers guide

Drive Electric

A nervous feeling that you won’t reach your destination in your electric car on the charge you have available. New EVs have vastly improved battery technology, allowing them to cover many more miles on a single charge. to fully charge the 80kWh Mercedes EQC with an electricity cost of 14p per kWh. full charge time.

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Driving the VW e-Golf; strategy, assembly in Wolfsburg, Braunschweig battery plant

Green Car Congress

Hinze is the engineer in charge of the rollout of the e-Golf and e-up!). The Golf offers the CCS charging system, enabling both AC and DC fast charging. kW charge to 100% SOC will take about 8 hours; a DC fast charge to 80% SOC will take about 30 minutes. Škoda, as one example, will be offering a plug-in hybrid.

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