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Best EVs to buy in Australia right now: The ultimate guide to affordable electric cars

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MG U9 EV.
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Why the MG U9 could be the first electric dual cab ute Aussie buyers will take seriously

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2025 Cupra Tindaya concept.
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2026 Leapmotor B10 Hybrid EV.
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Leapmotor B10 plug-in priced for Australia: Compact SUV matches electric sibling on dollars, has much longer claimed range

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2025 Kona Electric N-Line.
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Hyundai makes another big EV price play: Kona and Ioniq 5 $8000 discount, but there’s a bit more to the story than that

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2026 Skoda Peaq preview.
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Toyota HiLux. ANCAP five stars.
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Toyota HiLux BEV stars in safety tests: Maximum ANCAP rating confirmed as Subaru Trailseeker and Uncharted EVs also score highly

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Best EVs to buy in Australia right now: The ultimate guide to affordable electric cars

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The EV landscape has been transformed. In the space of a few short years, electric cars have gone from expensive

2026 Lexus RZ.
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2026 Lexus RZ Review: At $42K less than its predecessor the Lexus EV looks sharp against BMW, Audi, Tesla and Volvo

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MG S6 Essence AWD.
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2026 MG S6 Review: New mid-size SUV takes the value fight to Tesla, BYD, Zeekr and Geely

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2026 Volkswagen Tiguan eHybrid
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Camping with a 2025 Hyundai Inster Cross
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Want to go camping in your EV? We’ve done it: Here are seven things you must know before your first electric car sleep-over

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I’m getting used to sleeping in cars. No, the family’s not kicked me out. Nor has the house burned down.

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EVs being drawn towards a giant magnet to illustrate the lure of taking out a novated lease to leverage the government's fringe benefits tax exemption.
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Thinking of taking out a novated lease to buy a new EV so you can leverage the fringe benefits tax exemption? Read this first

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CATL chief scientist Wu Kai.
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CATL accelerates sodium-ion battery development, announces new battery with 600km range will enter production this year

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The world’s largest battery producer, CATL, has announced it is pushing ahead with plans to mass-produce within 2026 a sodium-ion

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Big step forward for V2G in Australia: Federal government’s huge investment expansion

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2026 BYD Flash Charger.
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BYD’s radical breakthrough! Next-gen Blade battery 2.0 is as fast to top up as petrol: 10-70 per cent charge will take just five minutes!

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2026 Verge TS Pro.
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First to the Finnish! Solid-state battery triumph claimed by Nordic upstarts

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2026 Lexus RZ.
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We love EV innovation, but spare me the awful yokes | Opinion

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Ferrari Luce.
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White Flag at Maranello: Has Ferrari surrendered the power wars to Tesla, Xiaomi, Zeekr, Yangwang … and Porsche? | Opinion

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2025 Renault 5 E-Tech
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Legacy car brands must embrace their heritage or die. So where’s our damn Renault 5? | Opinion

Iain Curry
2022 Lexus UX 300e public charging
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EV batteries surviving longer than expected – I bloody told you they would | Opinion

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