EV Central

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Volkswagen and Renault are primed to join forces to work today to develop a new family of electric cars that will be priced less than €20,000 ($A32,000). According to German newspaper Handelsblatt, both VW and Renault are considering the deal that will see both car-makers produce up 250,000 of its bargain basement-priced electric cars.

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EV Central

APRIL 29, 2024

Chinese battery-making giant CATL has launched its new Shenxing Plus battery at the Beijing motor show claiming it’s capable of adding as much as 600km of range after a short 10-minute charge and delivering a driving range of more than 1000km. Has Stellantis cracked the code for super-cheap EVs that will undercut ICE?

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EV Central

JUNE 9, 2024

Suzuki Australia has announced that it is ready to launch its first-ever electric car Down Under but it says its first all-electric offering won’t be a sub-$40,000 hatchback. It won’t be a volume-seller.”

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EV Central

JULY 3, 2024

Fresh from its assault on Australia’s entry-level EV space, a new wave of Chinese manufacturers will now attack more premium players, placing a target on the back of brands like BMW, Audi and Lexus. A new wave of Chinese manufacturers is coming, and they might just change the premium landscape in Australia.

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EV Central

JULY 18, 2024

Incoming Chinese premium electric brand Zeekr has confirmed its intention to bring the new 7X T esla Model Y fighter to Australia. China’s Zeekr previews yet another electric medium SUV rival for the Tesla Model Y “It’s one of the vehicle’s we’re looking to bring in. 2025 Zeekr 7X SUV. With: Andrew Chesterton The post Revealed!

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Our higher grade one costs £39,045 ($76,500) – the entry-level is £32,845 ($64,400) – but the UK does get better electric car subsidies than us. Kia Australia would have had to bring it in a fair bit less than that to compete with the current crop of Chinese electric cheapies.

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EV Central

DECEMBER 22, 2024

It is worth pointing out that both VW and Toyota want to jump straight to full solid-state cells but, until those batteries arrive, MG will have cars that go far further, are much quicker to charge, are much safer and yet still affordable, giving MG a winning edge over its rivals.

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EV Central

JANUARY 2, 2025

READ MORE: Light speed: Honda next-gen 0 Series electric cars preview F1 tech that will give it the edge over its cheaper Chinese rivals READ MORE: Will it be a Hossan or Ninda? “The rise of Chinese automakers and new players has changed the car industry quite a lot. Nissan Ariya EV. The post EV fightback!

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EV Central

MARCH 17, 2024

Chinese-owned MG is hatching a cheaper sibling to its current all-electric MG 4 that will share tech but be priced from less than €20,000 ($33,000) when it makes its debut in 2025. Also in the pipeline is an all-electric ZS SUV and an MG 4-based wagon. READ MORE: Park that Toyota Yaris! The post Below $30,000!

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 5, 2009

I have seen the future and it is a new car electric car from Nissan. Nissan is about to drink GM’s milkshake with a breakthrough, affordable, next generation electric car that will be beat the Chevy Volt to market, cost half as much and work twice as well. Plus it looks ten times cooler.

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EV Central

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

seconds, while the big battery provides for a Chinese CLTC-verified 630km range. Monster 710kW Denza Z9 GT to spearhead BYD luxury brand’s launch Down Under as latest Chinese brand touches down in Australia appeared first on EV Central. That’s enough for a 0-100km/h launch of just 3.4

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EV Central

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The Volkswagen Group has announced it is ready to cash in on its substantial US$5.8 ($A8.9b) billion joint venture with electric car disruptor Rivian by inviting the US SUV and truck maker to help develop its all-new Mk 9 Volkswagen Golf.

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EV Central

AUGUST 7, 2023

The Tesla Model Y continues to lead the electric car surge in Australia, finishing fourth outright on the sales ladder in July. According to the official VFACTS figures, there were 3330 examples of the battery electric SUV sold in Australia last month. It also sits eighth for the year with 29,511 sales.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2016

We think that in order to be a big player in the Chinese market we need both offers—high spec, low spec, higher price, lower price—because I believe that the support that the Chinese government is giving to electric cars is going to continue and it’s going to be stronger. —Carlos Ghosn. —Carlos Ghosn.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 24, 2022

Great Wall Motors (GWM) is a Chinese carmaker that has had a presence in Australasia for the past 13 years. They have a dealer network and many petrol and diesel cars on Australian and New Zealand roads. The vehicles have improved greatly since they were introduced as cheap, yet not so reliable, options. My niece […].

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EV Central

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Now look, the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N is such an obvious winner in any judging of the best electric car money could buy in 2024 that it took a rare unanimous gong as the Wheels Car of the Year, despite the fact that I was on the judging panel, and I hate agreeing with people. Or theyre old.

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Teslarati

JUNE 27, 2022

Chinese electric vehicle sales have hit 31 percent of the overall market, with 25 percent being pure EVs, a substantial growth year-over-year. According to a report by CleanTechnica , sales of electrified vehicles in May hit 31 percent of the overall market with 25 percent being fully electric vehicles.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Mexico is done importing cheap EVs from China and India as it plows ahead with a prototype of its own. Although Tesla officially paused plans for its Gigafactory Mexico until after the US electric in November, the country will still build EVs domestically. The country already has several prototypes. “We

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EV Central

JULY 31, 2024

Australia has a new cheapest EV, with MG announcing seriously competitive pricing for its MG ZS Excite that undercuts its core Chinese rivals in the BYD Dolphin and GWM Ora. MG ZS EV undercuts BYD Dolphin and GWM Ora with mega drive-away deal – but you’d better be quick appeared first on EV Central.

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Teslarati

JUNE 22, 2021

While Gigafactory Shanghai has been producing electric vehicles for the local Chinese market for over a year now, Tesla China’s operations have so far been focused on the company’s electric car business.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

All the new electric cars, electric SUVs and electric utes arriving in Australia in 2021, 2022 and 2023. READ MORE: Every electric ute and pick-up coming soon! READ MORE: Every new electric car coming to Australia in 2022. Here is the comprehensive list of every new EV due in the next few years.

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EV Central

AUGUST 19, 2023

Seres is a subsidiary of Chinese auto giant Dongfeng, and the Seres 3 has sold in China as the Fengon E3 since 2019. The steering wheel adjusts only for height, door plastics are incredibly cheap, the parcel shelf’s cardboard-like, yet the tailgate’s so heavy it’s as if it’s made of cast iron.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 9, 2011

When I was studying China and Mandarin Chinese 35 years ago, “Red” China was unrecognized by the US, literally, and dark in a way difficult to imagine now. The week I was in Shanghai, the Electric Vehicle Test Drive Center opened to the public in Shanghai Automobile City, a far suburb still reachable by subway. China is electrifying.

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EV Central

MARCH 25, 2024

The iD1 is designed to help the German brand fight off the invasion of cheap Chinese imports such as the MG2 and rival European cars like the incoming Renault Twingo and the Dacia Spring EV that’s already on sale. 2all concept previews sub-$40,000 electric hatchback for 2025 Confirming the ID.1

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Baua Electric

MAY 26, 2023

CEO Jim Farley says Chinese language electrical car makers are its primary competitors within the sector, however the corporate has hurdles competing on charge at a smaller scale. “We see the Chinese as the main competitor, not GM or Toyota,” Farley stated Thursday on the Morgan Stanley Sustainable Finance Zenith.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 19, 2021

” In a way, such labels were quite fair considering that China had focused its exports in the past on low-quality vehicles that were sold dirt-cheap in developing countries. China-made vehicles have long suffered from the reputation of being “low price, low quality, and low value.”

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 30, 2024

It’s official: The European Union is moving ahead with increased tariffs on Chinese-made EVs to as much as 45.3% – in an effort to save its auto industry from total demise. Since the US and Canada apply 100% tariffs on EVs coming from China, Europe has been the most obvious choice for Chinese expansion.

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EV Central

MARCH 24, 2025

Its called the IM LS6 and its coming in 2025 READ MORE: Cheap trick: MGs advanced semi-solid-state batteries it will launch next year will be affordable says boss as Chinese brand gets upper hand on VW and Toyota READ MORE: 2024 MG Cyberster review: Does this sexy two-seat roadster have the goods to take on Porsche and BMW?

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EV Central

DECEMBER 28, 2022

A new government and a change in mindset made 2022 a significant year for electric cars. Polestar and BYD were two of the new EV brands that arrived during the year and brands as diverse as Volkswagen and GWM confirmed their intention to start selling electric vehicles here in 2023. It was also a year of EV milestones.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Electric car resale value has been a hot topic of late, and as new and used EV prices fall, its created a tempting buyers market. The MG4 is the best electric product from the Chinese brand, and if youre interested, its hard to advise against buying a brand new Excite 51 version at $34,990 drive-away.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 21, 2016

The topic of electric cars and fires is a fraught one, not helped by the recent spate of videos of cheap Chinese hoverboards in flames. Any fire in an electric car tends to make headlines, regardless of whether the facts have been established.

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EV Central

JULY 9, 2024

Emerging electric car brand Zeekr has revealed yet another Chinese Tesla Model Y rival and it is almost certain to come to Australia. Zeekr is the latest upmarket electric brand from China’s giant Geely group and it launches within months in Australia with the Zeekr X compact SUV and 009 people-mover. 2025 Zeekr X.

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EV Central

JUNE 4, 2024

Stellantis boss Carlos Tavares has pledged that Jeep’s affordable all-electric SUV will be priced from less than US$25,000 ($A37,500) in the USA – almost US$19,000 less than the cheapest Tesla Model Y. Jeep locks in affordable electric SUV that will shock you with its price appeared first on EV Central. We’ll do it.”

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 30, 2025

Weak Charging Infrastructure & Software Optimization European and Chinese EVs are designed for advanced fast-charging networks (800V architecture, ultra-fast DC charging). Market Challenges and Low Adoption Rates Despite government incentives, electric cars hold just a 2% market share in India.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

News | Markets | Technology | Personal Finance | Small Business | CNN.com RSS Newsletters Video Home Fortune 500 Technology Investing Management Rankings Warren Buffett takes charge Warren Buffett hasnt just seen the car of the future, hes sitting in the drivers seat. The E6 will hit the Chinese market later this year.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Sticking to a cynics position can eventually bite you, however, if, say, you declare that all Chinese cars leave you as cold as a morgue slab, then you drive one – like the BYD Shark 6 – thats actually annoyingly good. But it is that PHEV technology that really does make the Shark a bit special.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Sticking to a cynics position can eventually bite you, however, if, say, you declare that all Chinese cars leave you as cold as a morgue slab, then you drive one – like the BYD Shark 6 – thats actually annoyingly good. But it is that PHEV technology that really does make the Shark a bit special.

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