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2025 Hyundai Inster review: the $40k city SUV challenge to the MG4, GWM Ora and BYD Dolphin

EV Central

Unsurprisingly it’s Hyundai, launching its Inster city crossover SUV into Aussie hands early in 2025 with a target price – Hyundai Australia says – around $40,000. READ MORE: 10 reasons why you should buy the Hyundai Inster, and 3 why you shouldn’t. Here’s where Hyundai has an advantage.

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Special 2024 MG 4 XPower review: Brand’s first homegrown hero scores local upgrades that deliver China’s most scorching electric hot hatch

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2025 MG ZS Hybrid+ previewed ahead of Q4 touchdown, but will the budget-friendly SUV outclass the Hyundai Kona? The NOTGAS, for want of a better name, isn’t a production model, and you can’t buy one. That is to say you can’t actually buy one. When it comes time to charge, the XPower will take 140kW DC charging.

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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”. Would anyone buy that? It helps the calculation. I think not.

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Chrysler and EPA to partner on hydraulic series hybrid powertrain for light duty vehicles

Green Car Congress

Chrysler Group LLC and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are working together to determine the possibility of adapting a hydraulic series hybrid system for application in large passenger cars and light-duty vehicles. The gas engine will remain off if the accumulator charge is sufficient to drive the motor. Earlier post.)

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

EV Central

Cheapest is at a Tasmanian Audi dealer showing just 495km – it may have only been charged once in its short life. So very fat, so low, and the giant full-length light bar and segmented rear clusters play a merry jig when I unlock it. But as I’ve said before with these ballistic EVs, you’re asking for licence trouble.

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New Chery Omoda E5 electric SUV locked in for next month but would you buy one over a BYD Atto 3?

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READ MORE: China’s Chery Omoda E5 wants a big slice of the affordable electric SUV action READ MORE: Omoda E5 SUV to lead Chery brand’s expansive Aussie electric car line-up READ MORE: Australia included in massive Chery EV rollout Both Omoda E5 models will feature a single-motor drivetrain powering the front wheels.

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EV Radar: December 2021

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New buildings will be required to include EV charging stations, as will renovated structures that have 10 or more parking spaces. The creation of this coalition means a big step toward getting a built-out charging infrastructure in the US. Honda's New SUV Has Beetle-Wing Doors. Christmas-Lighted Car Tours UK for Charity.