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Our electric car expert Bryce Gaton answers questions about electric vehicles, EV charging, batteries, infrastructure and more.

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Bryce Gaton

Bryce Gaton is an expert on electric vehicles and contributor for The Driven and Renew Economy. He has been working in the EV sector since 2008 and is currently working as EV electrical safety trainer/supervisor for the University of Melbourne. He also provides support for the EV Transition to business, government and the public through his EV Transition consultancy EVchoice.

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What is DC fast charging?

  • August 28, 2018
  • Bryce Gaton
Tritium are one of many companies supporting penetration of EV charging infrastructure. Source: Tritium
DC chargers are the largest and fastest way to charge an electric vehicle. Here's why.
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What is a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV)?

  • August 28, 2018
  • Bryce Gaton
The first of the 'new generation' EVs on the market in the 1990s, HEVs are refuelled exclusively with fossil fuels.
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  • 1 min
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What is a battery electric vehicle?

  • August 28, 2018
  • Bryce Gaton
The simplest form of EV is a BEV: a battery feeds an electric motor to drive the car.
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What is a fuel cell electric vehicle?

  • August 28, 2018
  • Bryce Gaton
FCEVs are technically very similar to a BEV, but swap out a sizeable chunk of the battery and replace it with two components.
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  • 1 min
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Are EVs greener than ICE vehicles?

  • August 28, 2018
  • Bryce Gaton
If you buy an EV over an ICE vehicle for city travel and run it exclusively from the grid, the answer is an emphatic ‘yes’.
Current EV charging systems can take at least 30-45 minutes, while the new resarch promises to cut this down to minutes. Credit: Kārlis Dambrāns
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Are EVs cheaper to run than ICE vehicles?

  • August 28, 2018
  • Bryce Gaton
Per kilometre, an electric vehicle is much cheaper to run than its internal combustion engine (ICE) equivalent. And here's why.
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What are the different types – and speeds – of EV charging?

  • August 28, 2018
  • Bryce Gaton
There are a number of different modes of EV charging, and each comes with a different rate of charge.
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What is an ‘EV’?

  • August 28, 2018
  • Bryce Gaton
When it comes to electric cars and trucks, there are four distinct types of EV that we generally hear about today.
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Can I cover the surfaces of my EV with solar panels and never need to plug it in to recharge?

  • August 17, 2018
  • Bryce Gaton
The answer depends on how much energy can you get from solar cells placed on a car, and how much energy per km a road registered EV uses.
Tesla Powerwall
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Why can’t I get the same distance from an EV battery pack as I can from a petrol tank?

  • August 17, 2018
  • Bryce Gaton
This comes back to why fossil fuels are popular as an energy source: they are a really energy dense material that is packed full of energy waiting to be liberated.

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