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2025 Audi Q4 55 e-tron quattro.
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Audi Q4 55 e-tron quattro Review: Perfectly nice, but is that gonna cut it against a vast number of cheaper and more interesting rivals?

November 15, 2025November 14, 2025 Stephen Corby 2828 Views Audi, Audi Q4 e-tron 55, Q4 e-tron 55

The problem with Audi’s curvaceous, attractive and non-threatening, Boomer-friendly new EV, the Audi Q4 55 e-tron quattro, is not the

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2025 GWM Cannon Alpha Ultra PHEV
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GWM Cannon Alpha Ultra PHEV Seven-Day Test: The plug-in BYD Shark alternative for proper off-roaders.

November 9, 2025November 9, 2025 Iain Curry 3693 Views alpha ultra phev, cannon alpha PHEV, gwm cannon alpha phev review, review

The BYD Shark may steal headlines and sales numbers, but GWM’s huge Cannon Alpha dual cab is the plug-in for

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2025 Ford E-Transit Custom Trend.
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2025 Ford E-Transit Custom Trend Review: This electric delivery van has a lot going for it, so why don’t we rate it higher?

November 7, 2025November 14, 2025 Bruce Newton 2657 Views E-Transit Custom, ford, Ford E-Transit Custom, transit electric, transit EV

At the moment most of the EV focus in Australia is on passenger vehicles. But we need a hell of

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2025 Hyundai Palisade Calligraphy.
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2026 Hyundai Palisade Calligraphy HEV Review: Can Hyundai’s new hybrid system really turn this huge SUV into a fuel-miser? Corby is sceptical

November 6, 2025November 6, 2025 Stephen Corby 3064 Views Hyundai, Hyundai Palisade Calligraphy HEV, Palisade Calligraphy HEV

Truly, you don’t need to dive into the demographics or scrape through the sales figures to know that sentiment is

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2025 BYD Sealion 8.
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2025 BYD Sealion 8 Premium Review: It’s super-fast and handles like a sports car. Does a seven-seat family SUV really need to behave this way?

November 3, 2025November 5, 2025 Bruce Newton 5526 Views BYD, BYD Sealion 8, Sealion 8

BYD is opening a new front in its war on, well, everyone else who sells cars in Australia, with the

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MG HS Hybrid+.
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2025 MG HS Hybrid+ Review: New mid-sized SUV brings EV-heavy hybrid system to take the fight to the Toyota RAV4

November 2, 2025November 1, 2025 Toby Hagon 2980 Views HS, Hybrid+, mg

The MG HS has the Toyota RAV4 squarely in its crosshairs. And it’s the Hybrid+ variant that MG thinks could

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Alfa Romeo Tonale Q4 PHEV
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2026 Alfa Romeo Tonale PHEV Review: Italian brand promises a small SUV antidote to “computers with four wheels”

November 1, 2025November 1, 2025 Andrew Chesterton 2216 Views Alfa Romeo Tonale

The Alfa Romeo Tonale is back for 2026, and it’s packing a promise under its undeniably pretty sheet metal that

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Leapmotor B10 range.
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2026 Leapmotor B10 Review: The cut-price Chinese EV that doesn’t drive like a Chinese EV

October 29, 2025October 29, 2025 Andrew Chesterton 4274 Views Leapmotor B10

If I had a dollar for every time a carmaker said they’d borrowed expertise from another brand to give its

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2026 Denza B5.
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2026 Denza B5 Leopard Review: Toyota should be worried, this plug-in hybrid could redefine the Australian 4×4 wagon market

October 27, 2025October 27, 2025 Bruce Newton 7713 Views B5, Denza, Denza B5

The Denza B5 can reset the balance of power in the 4×4 wagon segment in Australia. It’s that simple. To

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2025 BYD Atto 2 Premium.
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2025 BYD Atto 2 Premium Review: Australia’s cheapest compact electric SUV is going to be tough competition for both EVs and ICE … and not just because of the price

October 26, 2025October 25, 2025 Bruce Newton 8477 Views Atto 2, BYD, BYD Atto 2, Cheap EVs

BYD Australia is going to make a big statement when it comes to electric vehicle pricing when it launches the

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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

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PHEV: Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle

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EV videos

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

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