How clean are hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles?
Long planned and anticipated, the first production-version FCEVs are rolling out and more are on their way, but how clean are they?
How a Tesla travelled 9,000kms through Queensland without super-charger network
In 2015, one of Australia’s first owners of a Tesla Model S electric vehicle, the intrepid Marc Talloen, told us of his story on how he drove from Brisbane to…
Sylvia , 70, completes round-Australia trip in an EV for …. $150.90
Although she’s too modest to agree with the description, retired farmer Sylvia Wilson is an electric vehicle pioneer. The 70-year-old Queenslander recently returned from driving an electric vehicle all the…
What is DC fast charging?
DC chargers are the largest and fastest way to charge an electric vehicle. Here's why.
What is a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV)?
The first of the 'new generation' EVs on the market in the 1990s, HEVs are refuelled exclusively with fossil fuels.
What is a battery electric vehicle?
The simplest form of EV is a BEV: a battery feeds an electric motor to drive the car.
What is a fuel cell electric vehicle?
FCEVs are technically very similar to a BEV, but swap out a sizeable chunk of the battery and replace it with two components.
Are EVs greener than ICE vehicles?
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’.
Are EVs cheaper to run than ICE vehicles?
Per kilometre, an electric vehicle is much cheaper to run than its internal combustion engine (ICE) equivalent. And here's why.
What are the different types – and speeds – of EV charging?
There are a number of different modes of EV charging, and each comes with a different rate of charge.