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Volkswagen

VW ID Vizzion sedan concept
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Volkswagen announces Tesla Model S rival with Project Trinity

January 27, 2021February 2, 2021
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EV Central team 4128 Views ev, id.3, Trinity, Volkswagen

While Volkswagen has just started its massive battery electric vehicle roll-out, it has already revealed the first vehicle with next

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Tesla Model S
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Tesla value tops AUD$1 trillion

January 9, 2021January 9, 2021
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Toby Hagon 3521 Views Cybertruck, elon musk, market capitalisation, model 2, nyse, share price, stock price, Tesla, Toyota, Volkswagen

Tesla’s value has topped AUD$1 trillion. Tesla’s stock market capitalisation shot past AUD$1 trillion overnight, marking a new record for

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Honda e electric car
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Affordable (and cool) EVs Australians can’t buy…

December 30, 2020January 5, 2021 John Carey 3939 Views affordable evs, electric car, ev, fiat, Honda, renault, Volkswagen

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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Volkswagen mobile charging robot protoype
EV charging Technology 

Meet the robot that could soon be charging your electric car

December 29, 2020January 5, 2021 Toby Hagon 4060 Views autonomous charging, charging, electric car charging, ev charging, robot, Volkswagen

Charging an electric car could soon involve little more than a tap of a smartphone screen. Volkswagen has developed a

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VW ID Buggy
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Bye bye, buggy: VW’s epic EV heartbreakingly scrapped

December 17, 2020December 27, 2020 EV Central team 2063 Views electric vehicle, Volkswagen, volkswagen meb

One of the coolest EV options has now officially hit the scrapheap, with the epic, off-road VW ID Buggy cancelled

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Volkswagen EV wagon concept the Space Vizzion
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VW unveils EV wagon with 700km range

November 20, 2020November 26, 2020 Stephen Corby 4864 Views EV Concept, EV station wagon, Volkswagen, Volkswagen EV

Volkswagen’s plans to sell a million EVs a year by 2025 have been boosted by the announcement of a new

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Volkswagen ID.4
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ID.4 electric SUV most important VW ‘since the Beetle’

September 24, 2020October 2, 2020 John Carey 9101 Views ev, id.4, Volkswagen, VW

How big a deal is the new ID.4 electric car for Volkswagen? Massive… “This is the most important launch for

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Tesla chief Elon Musk getting out of a Volkswagen ID.3
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Power brokers: Tesla, Volkswagen bosses trade EVs and compliments – but still rivals

September 8, 2020September 18, 2020 Toby Hagon 2243 Views electric car, electric vehicles, elon musk, EVs, herbert diess, id.3, id.4, model y, Tesla, Volkswagen

Elon Musk and Herbert Diess are two of the most influential people in electric cars and last week the pair

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CGI of the Volkswagen Golf ID.4
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Volkswagen vows to overtake Tesla on tech and production by 2023

September 8, 2020September 10, 2020 EV Central team 3763 Views Berlin Gigafactory, elon musk, ID 4, id.3, Tesla, Volkswagen

Volkswagen says it will have caught rival Tesla on both production volumes and technology by 2023, or earlier, as the

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2020 VW Golf GTE PHEV
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Latest VW Golf PHEVs on-sale in Europe

August 31, 2020October 6, 2020 EV Central team 4743 Views Golf, GTE, Volkswagen

Volkswagen has rolled out the latest plug-in hybrid versions of the popular Golf small car in Europe. VW has doubled

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Types of EVs

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

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Hybrid vehicle
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Hybrid vehicle

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EV or BEV: Electric vehicle or battery 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

VIDEO: Kia EV6 GT-Line AWD review
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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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