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Rivian is one step closer to delivering their vehicles to customers with an official range provided for their R1T pickup truck (ute) and the SUV R1S. The US-based EPA-rated range for the 2022 Rivian R1T is officially a very healthy 314 miles, which correlates to 505km of range from...
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Hyundai’s premium brand Genesis has announced (like many others), they’re going electric. The GV60 is the brand’s first electric vehicle, based on an E-GMP (Electric-Global Modular Platform). The first images of the GV60 were revealed in August and the vehicle is to be released in the second half of...
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Make no mistake, the race to deliver a fully autonomous vehicles, transporting passengers (aka robotaxi) is well and truly on. Motional, a driverless technology company is teaming up with Hyundai to turn their IONIQ 5 EV, into a robotaxi. The IONIQ 5 looks to be a really competitive electric...
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Nissan has announced today that it plans to start sales of an all-new, all-electric minivehicle. This vehicle will be created as part of a joint project with Mitsubishi Motors. So what exactly is a minivehicle? Well back in 2019, Nissan unveiled the IMk concept EV and this little 5-door...
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This week Rivian revealed in an SEC filing (S-1) about going public (via an IPO), they are expecting the capital raise to promote their market cap to a valuation of US$80 Billion. The number of shares offered and the price range for the proposed offering are yet to be...
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Electric Vehicles aren’t just replacing internal combustion vehicles on the road, but are moving into every vehicle type. One such vehicle that is seeing new EV competition is ride-on lawnmowers. There are two major options on sale in Australia, from Ryobi and Toro, both of which somehow managed to...
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The all-electric ExtremeE championship will see the latest round play out this weekend. The 6.68km track will put driver’s to the test, with this round will take place in Greenland. The Arctic X Prix will see the off-road Extreme E cars race the Russell Glacier near Kangerlussuaq. For those...
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Over the years, Tesla’s referral program has gone through a number of iterations and it looks like we’re about to get another. Reddit user /mishengda has been digging through the source code for the newly released Tesla App v4.0.0, with the Android version shipping overnight. After busting apart the...
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I keep telling you, 4 weeks is the new two weeks when it comes to Tesla. Owners of Tesla vehicles that have purchase the Full-Self Driving capability are watching the early access participants drive the FSD Beta build and they want it now. Back in July, Musk indicated that...
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If you’re buying a Mercedes-Benz, then you’re already looking at the premium end of the market and if you add to that, the extra up-front cost of an EV, then yes, Mercedes-Benz are expensive. Today, Australian Merc fans get a new entry point for the all-electric family-size SUV, the...
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Charging network Chargefox recently clocked up a significant milestone, welcoming their 20,000th customer to the Chargefox app. For those electric vehicle owners leveraging 3rd party charging networks like Chargefox, the process is simple, just download the app from the app store, create an account and configure your payment method. You can...
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Electric Vehicle Charging networks in Australia are now growing rapidly and today we get news of one of the largest plans to date. JOLT is a charging network that has a number of sites in Adelaide and in April announced plans for an expansion to Sydney. Now with some...
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Western Australia is the largest state (by land area) in the country at around 2.95 million square miles. This makes the challenge of creating an electric vehicle charging network even greater than Queensland, Australia’s 2nd largest state at 1.72M square miles. Australia’s east coast is powering along with DC...
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If you try and buy a car with finance, you’ll face interest rates with a 6 in front of it, but buy an EV and Macquarie Bank will offer you a rate of just 2.99% p.a with a loan period of 5 years. That’s close to home loan rates,...
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Last night Tesla delivered FSD Beta 9.2 to the small group (around 2,000) of users in the Early Access Program. While it was a day late from the expected 2-week timetable set by Musk, it does now bed in the expectation we will see point releases each fortnight. As...
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Panmi has officially announced the arrival of the Segway-Ninebot KickScooters F20A, F25, F30 and F40A in Australia. The Segway-Ninebot KickScooter F20A and F25 will be priced at $899.00, the F30 at $999.00 and the F40A at $1,199.00. The Segway Ninebot F20A KickScooter is safe and reliable electric scooter that...
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Tesla’s Autopark feature has been very limited in its capability, requiring adjacent cars to be activated. This severely limits the number of opportunities you have to use it. I suspect many Tesla owners also try and park away from other vehicles, so while the feature does work, practically it’s...
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Australia’s Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment, Dan Tehan MP won’t be in lockdown for the next 7 days, instead, he’s one of those with a special exemption to travel to America. Australia’s electric charging maker Tritium has expanded to Los Angeles and Tehan stopped by to check out...
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Comma.ai is an autonomous driving company that has just announced its 4th generation hardware, known as the Comma Three. This dev kit was announced during the recent Comma_Con conference in San Diego. The new device is around the size of a modern smartphone and has many of the same...
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Back in February, we learned that Michelin had launched a new version of their Pilot Sport tyre, specifically for electric vehicles. MICHELIN has some serious claims with this new rubber, with the new tyre addressing some of the very specific challenges related to EVs. Engineered to meet the specific...
Rivian is one step closer to delivering their vehicles to customers with an official range provided for their R1T pickup truck (ute) and the SUV R1S. The US-based EPA-rated range for the 2022 Rivian R1T is officially a very healthy 314 miles, which correlates to 505km of range from...
Hyundai’s premium brand Genesis has announced (like many others), they’re going electric. The GV60 is the brand’s first electric vehicle, based on an E-GMP (Electric-Global Modular Platform). The first images of the GV60 were revealed in August and the vehicle is to be released in the second half of...
Make no mistake, the race to deliver a fully autonomous vehicles, transporting passengers (aka robotaxi) is well and truly on. Motional, a driverless technology company is teaming up with Hyundai to turn their IONIQ 5 EV, into a robotaxi. The IONIQ 5 looks to be a really competitive electric...
Nissan has announced today that it plans to start sales of an all-new, all-electric minivehicle. This vehicle will be created as part of a joint project with Mitsubishi Motors. So what exactly is a minivehicle? Well back in 2019, Nissan unveiled the IMk concept EV and this little 5-door...
This week Rivian revealed in an SEC filing (S-1) about going public (via an IPO), they are expecting the capital raise to promote their market cap to a valuation of US$80 Billion. The number of shares offered and the price range for the proposed offering are yet to be...
Electric Vehicles aren’t just replacing internal combustion vehicles on the road, but are moving into every vehicle type. One such vehicle that is seeing new EV competition is ride-on lawnmowers. There are two major options on sale in Australia, from Ryobi and Toro, both of which somehow managed to...
The all-electric ExtremeE championship will see the latest round play out this weekend. The 6.68km track will put driver’s to the test, with this round will take place in Greenland. The Arctic X Prix will see the off-road Extreme E cars race the Russell Glacier near Kangerlussuaq. For those...
Over the years, Tesla’s referral program has gone through a number of iterations and it looks like we’re about to get another. Reddit user /mishengda has been digging through the source code for the newly released Tesla App v4.0.0, with the Android version shipping overnight. After busting apart the...
I keep telling you, 4 weeks is the new two weeks when it comes to Tesla. Owners of Tesla vehicles that have purchase the Full-Self Driving capability are watching the early access participants drive the FSD Beta build and they want it now. Back in July, Musk indicated that...
If you’re buying a Mercedes-Benz, then you’re already looking at the premium end of the market and if you add to that, the extra up-front cost of an EV, then yes, Mercedes-Benz are expensive. Today, Australian Merc fans get a new entry point for the all-electric family-size SUV, the...
Charging network Chargefox recently clocked up a significant milestone, welcoming their 20,000th customer to the Chargefox app. For those electric vehicle owners leveraging 3rd party charging networks like Chargefox, the process is simple, just download the app from the app store, create an account and configure your payment method. You can...
Electric Vehicle Charging networks in Australia are now growing rapidly and today we get news of one of the largest plans to date. JOLT is a charging network that has a number of sites in Adelaide and in April announced plans for an expansion to Sydney. Now with some...
Western Australia is the largest state (by land area) in the country at around 2.95 million square miles. This makes the challenge of creating an electric vehicle charging network even greater than Queensland, Australia’s 2nd largest state at 1.72M square miles. Australia’s east coast is powering along with DC...
If you try and buy a car with finance, you’ll face interest rates with a 6 in front of it, but buy an EV and Macquarie Bank will offer you a rate of just 2.99% p.a with a loan period of 5 years. That’s close to home loan rates,...
Last night Tesla delivered FSD Beta 9.2 to the small group (around 2,000) of users in the Early Access Program. While it was a day late from the expected 2-week timetable set by Musk, it does now bed in the expectation we will see point releases each fortnight. As...
Panmi has officially announced the arrival of the Segway-Ninebot KickScooters F20A, F25, F30 and F40A in Australia. The Segway-Ninebot KickScooter F20A and F25 will be priced at $899.00, the F30 at $999.00 and the F40A at $1,199.00. The Segway Ninebot F20A KickScooter is safe and reliable electric scooter that...
Tesla’s Autopark feature has been very limited in its capability, requiring adjacent cars to be activated. This severely limits the number of opportunities you have to use it. I suspect many Tesla owners also try and park away from other vehicles, so while the feature does work, practically it’s...
Australia’s Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment, Dan Tehan MP won’t be in lockdown for the next 7 days, instead, he’s one of those with a special exemption to travel to America. Australia’s electric charging maker Tritium has expanded to Los Angeles and Tehan stopped by to check out...
Comma.ai is an autonomous driving company that has just announced its 4th generation hardware, known as the Comma Three. This dev kit was announced during the recent Comma_Con conference in San Diego. The new device is around the size of a modern smartphone and has many of the same...
Back in February, we learned that Michelin had launched a new version of their Pilot Sport tyre, specifically for electric vehicles. MICHELIN has some serious claims with this new rubber, with the new tyre addressing some of the very specific challenges related to EVs. Engineered to meet the specific...
