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Rolls-Royce Ghost with a twin-turbo V12
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The age of V12-engined fat-cat cars is coming to an end

November 29, 2020November 28, 2020 Stephen Corby 3161 Views electric car, ev, rolls-royce ghost

The future is meant to be a foreign country, and as we all know, we can’t visit those any more.

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Porsche Taycan charging bays
Opinion 

EV tax is like adding 50 percent to the price of petrol…

November 27, 2020November 30, 2020 John Carey 3099 Views

Imagine if a politician announced a new tax that increased the price of petrol by 50 percent. The screaming ferocity

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2019 Tesla Model 3 dual-motor
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Melbourne: a city of big beards, OK coffee … and not many Teslas

November 22, 2020November 30, 2020 Stephen Corby 3491 Views ev

Ah, Melbourne, so much image, so little substance. Well, I say “image”, but actually, outside of Australia, most of the

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Audi e-Tron 50 Sportback
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Pollies turn attention to taxing EVs while big mining gets discounted diesel

November 15, 2020November 19, 2020 Stephen Corby 3016 Views australian politicians, electric cars, electric vehicles, ev taxes

Sadly, I think we’ve all come to just accept that our governments in this country are very busy sexually harassing and

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Porsche Taycan undergoing development testing in 2019
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Blind rage over the silence of electric cars

November 8, 2020November 8, 2020 Stephen Corby 4007 Views electric car, ev noise

It’s not often that I see something on Facebook that really makes me think, or makes me think anything other

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Opinion 

ICE-holes ICE-blocking is infuriating for EV drivers

November 1, 2020November 6, 2020 Stephen Corby 3265 Views ev, ICE

Sure, ice blocking sounds like something sweet and summery you’d do with the kids, but it’s actually just more evidence,

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Mercedes-Benz A250e plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV)
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Politics, the environment and electric cars

October 25, 2020October 29, 2020 Stephen Corby 2270 Views ev, politics, scott morrison

People often ask me to shut up. In the past few months the reason has often been that I’m banging

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V8 Supercars at Mount Panorama for the Bathurst 1000
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The silent Bathurst 1000? Why EVs at The Mountain won’t work…

October 18, 2020October 20, 2020 Stephen Corby 4097 Views electric race car, formula 1, v8 supercars

Logic would tell you that time and experience make you wiser, and thus you will be wrong about fewer things

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Audi e-Tron 55 Sportback charging at an ultra-rapid fast charger in Goulburn NSW
Opinion 

Shock of the new: Why I won’t soon forget the Audi e-tron

October 11, 2020May 16, 2022 Stephen Corby 2030 Views audi e-tron, electric suv, ev

The big, watershed moments of your working life stick with you, indelibly, like mental chewing gum on the sole of

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Toyota RAV4 PHEV plug-in hybrid is available overseas but in Australia there is only the regular hybrid
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Toyota’s giant electric car mistake

October 4, 2020October 9, 2020 Andrew Chesterton 4709 Views

Put your hand up if you remember when Toyota launched the Prius in Australia back in 2001. OK, now leave

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FCEV: Fuel cell hydrogen electric vehicle
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FCEV: Fuel cell hydrogen electric vehicle

January 10, 2021 EV Central team Comments Off on FCEV: Fuel cell hydrogen electric vehicle

Hydrogen electric vehicles, often called hydrogen fuel cells vehicles (FCEV), drive the same as regular EVs. They can have one

PHEV: Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle
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PHEV: Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle

July 27, 2019 Stephen Corby Comments Off on PHEV: Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle
Hybrid vehicle
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Hybrid vehicle

July 26, 2019 Stephen Corby Comments Off on Hybrid vehicle
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EV or BEV: Electric vehicle or battery electric vehicle

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Mad video: G-force overload as we ride with F1’s Liam Lawson in Ford’s 4000Nm electric SuperVan
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Mad video: G-force overload as we ride with F1’s Liam Lawson in Ford’s 4000Nm electric SuperVan

April 13, 2024 Iain Curry Comments Off on Mad video: G-force overload as we ride with F1’s Liam Lawson in Ford’s 4000Nm electric SuperVan

With acceleration to rip the skin from your cheekbones, Ford’s SuperVan 4.2 is an electric Transit with performance from another

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VIDEO: Kia EV6 GT-Line AWD review

February 25, 2022 Toby Hagon Comments Off on VIDEO: Kia EV6 GT-Line AWD review

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