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Are there any EV options that cater for people in motorised wheelchairs?

  • August 21, 2024
  • 9 comments
  • Letter to the Editor
Wheelchair access for many EV charging stations needs to be improved.
Our 2014 Renault Kangoo has been modified to allow our daughter to drive her wheelchair into the back of the van via a ramp. Is there any EV that offers a similar option?
Hansjoerg Gemmingen
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  • 3 min
  • Electric Cars

EVs are easy to fall in love with, but only once you’re in one

  • August 16, 2024
  • 20 comments
  • Rachel Williamson
EV owners love their cars, but getting Australians past their fears to make the switch is proving challenging, a new report says.
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  • 5 min
  • Electric Cars

Want to buy an electric car but unsure you can justify it? Here’s how the arguments against EVs stack up

  • August 6, 2024
  • 14 comments
  • John Rose & Andrea Pelligrini
So you’re thinking of buying an electric car. But you’ve heard arguments against electric cars: they have limited range and many owners can’t easily charge at home.
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  • 6 min
  • Electric Cars

Which areas really have the highest penetration of electric vehicles?

  • July 15, 2024
  • Brendan Jones
The only way to get a true appreciation of which areas have the highest penetration of EVs is to look at per capita data. And only one state provides that.
Long Range Model 3 charging at Geeveston, Tasmania. Image: Bridie Schmidt
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  • 5 min
  • Electric Cars
  • EV News

What 3 years of driving an electric car taught me about range “serenity” and energy consumption

  • July 10, 2024
  • Peter Mock
Driving an electric car nowadays is not substantially different from driving a conventional combustion engine car, except that the electric car is quieter, cleaner and more fun to drive!
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  • 4 min
  • Electric Cars
  • EV News

How Volvo crossed the Valley of Death in transition to all electric cars

  • July 8, 2024
  • Bryce Gaton
Volvo Cars has crossed the manufacturing ‘Valley of Death’ and is now building profitable EVs, showing other legacy car makers how it can be done.
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  • 4 min
  • Electric Cars

The problem with road-hogging ‘wankpanzers’: Even when electric, they are a hazard

  • July 4, 2024
  • Rachel Williamson
Australia's fascination with extra large vehicles is being driven by tax incentives, and even when electric are a health hazard.
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  • 2 min
  • Charging
  • Electric Cars
  • EV News

Charge an EV for $5? Origin Energy trial goes public

  • May 14, 2024
  • Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
The EV Power Up program offers electricity at 8c per kilowatt hour, which Origin estimates could fill a Tesla Model Y for $4.60.
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  • 3 min
  • Electric Cars

EVs are driving boom in novated leases as customers choose Tesla and BYD

  • May 13, 2024
  • Rachel Williamson
EVs now make up nearly two thirds of the novated leases signed by one of the biggest providers in Australia, but new conservative government has killed the market in New Zealand.
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  • 5 min
  • Electric Cars
  • Policy

Electric vehicles will improve air quality in our cities – but only when uptake accelerates

  • May 3, 2024
  • John Rose & Andrea Pelligrini
The main challenge in cutting transport emissions is no longer technological – it’s uptake.

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