Mercedes-Benz Australia Pacific Ltd (MBAuP) has told its 60 Australian dealers that they have until close of business on September 17, 2021, to sign up to its new agency sales contract.
The Electric Vehicle Council is urging the Victorian government to demonstrate its commitment to tackling climate change by scrapping its EV tax, in the wake of a high court challenge brought by two Victoria EV drivers.
Volkswagen Australia Group (VGA) has confirmed that its first plug-in hybrid electric vehicle for the local market in the form of the Touareg R SUV will arrive towards the end of 2022. VGA says the combined turbo petrol V6 and electric motor within the new Touareg R PHEV delivers performance comparable to the discontinued V8 turbodiesel model. It will also be the fifth R performance model to join Volkswagen's local line-up in 2022.
The new Renault Mégane E-Tech Electric has been unveiled at IAA Mobility 2021 in Munich which runs until September 12. It has a choice of two battery capacities - 40kWh for 300km range (WLTP) or 60kWh for 470km range, delivering either 96kW and 250Nm or 160kW and 300Nm and enabling the EV to accelerate from zero to 100km/h in 7.4 seconds.
More than 208,000 Leaf customers and 42,000 e-NV200 owners in Europe have joined Nissan as the brand continues its electrification commitment. Nissan is celebrating the latest milestone and recently announced a one-billion pound flagship EV Hub - EV36Zero as a world-first EV manufacturing ecosystem.
An ID.Buzz autonomous vehicle prototype is at the Volkswagen Group’s “New Auto Night” event on the eve of the IAA Mobility 2021 on September 7-12 in Munich. It’s one of the first five self-driving test vehicles of the fully electric ID.
Polestar has done the unthinkable and published the full details of the carbon footprint of its latest models for the general car buying public to see.
M For the 2020 model year Mercedes-Benz will introduce a new entry-level version of the all-electric EQC SUV to sit underneath the current version being marketed in Australian dealerships.
Hyundai Motor Company Australia says the all-new 2021 Kona Electric “Standard Range” (100kW and 39.2kWh) which can do up to 305km (WLTP) on a single charge, and a coinciding price reduction for the now renamed “Extended Range” (150kW and 64kWh) powertrain variants makes the EV range more accessible.
