Toyota: The hybrid-ocrites…
Magicians know that making a trick work depends on getting the audience to focus on flashy showmanship while the real
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John Carey
Mercedes-Benz MBUX Hyperscreen display for EVs only
Mercedes-Benz’s stunning new MBUX Hyperscreen initially will be available only in its EVs. “At first it is an EQ feature,”
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Six reasons to buy an EV in 2021
Choosing EV instead of ICE makes more sense than ever as a new year dawns… Here are six reasons to
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Oddball EVs: the weird and wonderful of electric cars
The outer fringes of the EV universe are inhabited by some strange looking cars. Mostly from Europe, where vehicle design
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Affordable (and cool) EVs Australians can’t buy…
Wealthier Australians looking to go EV have plenty of options to choose from, but the same can’t be said for
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Toyota chief Akio Toyoda is wrong about EVs…
Akio Toyoda knows a lot about the car business. So when the president of Toyota was openly critical of EVs
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ID.7 electric Kombi to top Volkswagen EV line-up in 2022
Volkswagen’s chief says an electric Kombi-lookalike, due in 2022, will top its growing line-up of EVs. In a recent interview
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Revolutionary DC home charger under development
Volkswagen is developing an innovative new wallbox to bypass the bottleneck that slows charging when an EV is plugged in
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What does ‘self-charging hybrid’ mean?
It means you’re being baffled by misleading marketing. Coined by Toyota, and also used by its Lexus luxury brand, the
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Japan, too, plans ban on non-electrified cars
News has leaked that Japan plans to stop the sale of purely petrol-burning new cars from the mid-2030s. NHK, Japan’s
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