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Seven-day test: 2024 Audi RS e-tron GT, now with $100,000 price cut?

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Audi’s ballistic RS e-tron GT is a high-profile example, sitting stubbornly with an RRP of $251,110 while dealers are trying to shift 2023 examples from $179,990 drive-away. Cheapest is at a Tasmanian Audi dealer showing just 495km – it may have only been charged once in its short life. seconds not enough, anyway?

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Time to unplug phoney PHEV fuel ratings: Australia’s “electrified” automotive future isn’t all its cracked up to be | Opinion

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READ MORE: It’s a green light for electric vehicles! Audi boss Jeff Mannering recently told me that he thinks the tipping point for this country will come as soon as 2028 or 2029, that being the point at which we buy “more EVs and plug-ins than ICE cars”. But the cars will run until 2033, 2034. It helps the calculation.

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Your EV range anxiety is making the world ugly – just ask the Tesla Model Y | Opinion

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In the very near future, no one will be ugly, bored, or, sadly, employed, and if technology can manage all of those miracles it will surely also deliver us cars that can drive for 1500km, or more, and then recharge just by parking in direct sunlight for five minutes. It would have to be an EV, but, at present, it doesn’t exist yet.

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Used electric vehicle pricing guide: How much you’ll pay for a pre-loved Tesla Model 3, Hyundai Kona Electric, MG ZS EV and many more

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‘EV values plummet’ has been a regular headline in overseas media this year, as electric car resale values tumble in major markets like the US and UK. America and Europe have more mature EV markets than us, meaning thousands of pre-loved electric cars have popped up on their used car classifieds. of new car deliveries.

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Tesla Model Y Performance versus Kia EV6 GT: Which is Australia’s best go-fast EV?

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They’re two of Australia’s most in-demand performance EVs — the Kia EV6 GT and Tesla Model Y Performance — and both will deliver all-electric thrills by the bucketload. But which is the better buy? Its sports seats means it misses out on electric adjustment up front. Which is the best value? sprint to triple figures.

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

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note: We’re republishing this article because it’s a good reminder of how technology timelines can slip and yet things are clearly moving forward. Tesla, Volvo, Mercedes (Daimler), BMW, Audi, GM, Ford, Nissan, Toyota and others are now delivering cars with some of these features and developing cars with all of these.

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Beach baby! 1971 VW Baja Beetle electromod is the ultimate electric toy

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Electric cool has a new king. This next-level electromod 1971 VW Beetle’s been given both the custom Baja and electric conversion treatment, resulting in a high-riding tray-backed one-off destined for sand duties. READ MORE: Converting classics to electric: how to do it and how much does it cost?