EV Advice

Everything you need to know about BYD cars
By Stephen Ottley · 16 Aug 2022
The Chinese automotive sector is on the rise globally, and here in Australia. The likes of MG, Haval and GWM have arrived in recent years and are already making their mark on the sales charts.
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The top 10 electric commercial vehicles to keep an eye on in Australia
By Stephen Corby · 05 Aug 2022
For the uninitiated, “commercial vehicles” aren’t cars that star in TV ads. What the term actually refers to are any vehicles designed to transport multiple passengers or carry goods, and they typically come in the form of a van or a ute/pick-up truck.
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The top 9 electric vehicle manufacturers
By Stephen Corby · 27 Jul 2022
Shouting about climate change and car emissions seems to have been going on for decades, but it’s not that long ago that the idea of banning the sale of fossil fuel-consuming internal-combustion-engine (ICE) vehicles would have been unimaginable.
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EV charging stations in Australia explained
By Stephen Corby · 27 Jul 2022
There are a lot of things to dislike about service stations: petrol pump nozzles you need to insert and withdraw a dozen times before they work, water to wash your windscreen with that looks like it’s been retrieved from a toilet and rest rooms that more often than not look like crime scenes. And smell worse.
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The ten cheapest hybrid cars in Australia
By Stephen Corby · 27 Jul 2022
If you’re on the hunt for a cheap car, then a hybrid electric vehicle should be a strong contender when sizing up possibilities, since the savings continue well after you decide to drive one home.
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What is the smallest car in the world?
By Stephen Ottley · 19 Jul 2022
If your first instinct is to say ‘Mini’ you’d be wrong. How wrong? Precisely 168cm wrong. That’s because while the original Mini hatch was a compact 305cm in length, the world’s smallest car is the Peel P50 which measures just 137cm long.
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Mercedes-AMG EQS 53 2023 review
By David Morley · 14 Jul 2022
Can an electric AMG make sense? Of course it can. And when you consider that the planet's best high-performance cars are all going electric, and luxury cars should already be so, the EQS 53 should fit right in.
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Tesla Model 3 2023 review: Rear-Wheel Drive
By Tom White · 12 Jul 2022
There is no question Tesla's Model 3 has already earned its spot in the history books, but is it worth getting on the exceedingly long waiting list?
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Volvo electric cars in Australia: Everything you need to know
By Stephen Corby · 12 Jul 2022
Sweden has a fine history of world-beating brands - IKEA, Spotify, ABBA - but none has been around for as long as Volvo, the epitome of “safe and sensible”. It may be a little less Swedish these days - Chinese multinational automotive company Geely Holding Group took ownership of Volvo in 2010 - but the brand will forever by synonymous with the land of meatballs, herring and blonde people.
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Top five hybrid SUVs in Australia
By Stephen Corby · 08 Jul 2022
When it comes to electrified vehicles, Australians all seem to have the same concern: our country is genuinely massive, and the all-electric range offered by EVs typically isn’t. This tends to ignore the logical point that most of us don’t drive from Brisbane to Broome very often, but who said humans are logical?
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