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Sick of waiting for an electric Toyota HiLux? The 2024 Tembo Tusker is the next best thing – and you won’t believe the price

EV Central

Will forgive you if you haven’t heard of the Dutch-backed Chinese-built Tembo Tusker, but when it arrives the tough LDV eT60-rival is primed to be priced from $74,000 plus GST and on-road costs for the base Tusker S (single cab), and just $75,000 for the Tusker D (dual-cab version).

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Tesla Inside: The Ultimate Vintage Land Rover Retrofit

Cars That Think

For this baby-blue Rover, the conversion includes a powerful electric drive unit from a. There, more than 60 employees and two production lines will have the capacity for 100 conversions a year. Around the world, specialists like E.C.D. Tesla Model S P100D, which provides 450 horsepower (331 kilowatts) in this application.

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New EV electric car calendar

EV Central

Avatar E11 – a new brand with big dreams, Avatar has input from Huawei and CATL and is the product of Chinese car maker Changan. BYD – Chinese car maker (the name means Build Your Dreams) has huge plans for Australia, including a range of SUVs and a sports sedan. It’ll be on sale in 2025, possibly as the A9 e-Tron.

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10 reasons you should buy the sub-$40k Hyundai Inster EV… and three why you shouldn’t

EV Central

Its wheelbase – at 2580mm – is 180mm longer than the petrol-powered Hyundai Casper that spawned this EV. The Aussie conversion is exactly $40,000. There are external and internal power sockets (220V), allowing bi-directional charging without requiring additional kit. But most impressive are the rear seats.

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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

Plug In India

And he assured me that Oben is not taking the Chinese assembler route to market. 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 5,000 upwards.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) That said, the interest in conversions continues to validate hybrid technology as a core technology thats here to stay.

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