Electric car sales surge ends in Australia as hybrid boom continues
EV registrations in April were 6194, down five percent on the 6530 units for the same month last year, according to official industry figures released today.
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EV registrations in April were 6194, down five percent on the 6530 units for the same month last year, according to official industry figures released today.
The Polestar 5 sedan is essentially Sweden's take on the Porsche Taycan. And we've already seen it run up the hill at Goodwood with promises of 884 horsepower. Now we know how quickly it could, theoretically, charge in the future. Again, theoretically.
Swedish electric-vehicle maker Polestar Automotive will delay the publication of its fourth-quarter and full-year 2023 financial results for a second time, a spokesperson for the company said on Tuesday.
Charging remains one of the biggest hurdles for mass EV adoption. Public charging infrastructure still isn’t extensive enough to merit driver confidence, and even the fastest chargers still require lengthy stops compared to refueling a gasoline car. But the State of Michigan and Israeli startup Electreon hope to prove that EVs can charge as they drive. As detailed in a recent CleanTechnica explaine
The first uncamouflaged spy shot of the forthcoming Lynk & Co Zero has emerged. Expect the Zero to be launched very soon and the car will act as the all-electric flagship for Geely’s Lynk & Co brand along with being the brand’s first all-electric model.
Before Volvo launched the EX90, the Swedish automaker — already known as a pioneer in safety — repeatedly stressed how much work it had done to raise the bar for safety in its new electric SUV. Almost every new release included lines like, «The standard safety in the Volvo EX90 is also higher than any Volvo car before it,» and «The Volvo EX90 has an invisible shield of safety enabled by our latest sensing technology, inside and outside.» But these focused on the car's electronic suite of sensors and cameras watching everything from the road ahead and behind to the driver's state of fatigue. The company did the same during the launch of the EX30, writing that its new compact electric vehicle protects all occupants «through state-of-the-art restraint technology, as well as top-notch structural design that fulfills our ambitious in-house safety requirements — designed to prepare our cars for various real-world scenarios.»
The Emily GT, an electric sedan prototype created by former Saab engineers in Sweden with Chinese funding, may see production in Italy under the auspices of a Canadian startup, reports Autocar.
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