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Rent a petrol or diesel car for your holidays. That’s not the EV I booked … Who knew? In many places, electric cars are cheaper to rent than equivalent petrol cars. I pre-booked months in advance. And as Europcar says on its website: Save on Petrol! ” If you read no further, heed this advice.
He has not used his Petrol cars and only uses the Nexon EV. So when Tata announced the Nexon EV with a range which seemed to be a practical 200 km, he just walked into the Tata showroom at Bangalore and handed them a cheque for the booking amount - no questions asked. He loves the instant acceleration and fun of driving an eletric car.
It was only around 15 years ago that EVs could barely travel 50 miles before running out of juice. This is in contrast to petrol and diesel cars, which will have progressively lower resale values as we move towards 2030 when new sales will be banned. From then on, it’s just a case of waiting for your delivery to be booked in.
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Go to petrol pump owners and find out who are people who are big time consumers. With the cruise control on, managed to have a lovely conversation with Karthik on Jared Diamond’s excellent book Guns, Germs and Steel. (In Our booking was mistakenly done for the same day checkout. 5,000 upwards. It’s a Zen feeling.
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As I write, Polestar has closed order books for newly configured cars, but there are preconfigured ones available for near immediate delivery. And if you have experienced the raw thrill of doing 100km/h in under five seconds in a petrol car, I’m afraid doing so via electric power just doesn’t get the juices flowing the same way.
A simple, clean, efficient EV that wont run out of juice because of its on-board gas generator. Theyre not trying to send men to the moon, theyre building an ELECTRIC CAR that uses a petrol motor they already make charging batteries supplied by LG all bolted into a vehicle platform they also already have in production.
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