Local pricing for one of the most highly anticipated new vehicles of the year has been confirmed. When it arrives in showrooms Kia’s first dedicated battery electric vehicle, the EV6, will start at $67,990.
AGL Energy has committed to buying 36 Mitsubishi plug-in vehicles as it works towards a goal of electrifying 10% of its car fleet. Now it’s challenging others to do better.
Electric supercar the Nio EP9 scorched around the Nurburgring Nordschleife circuit in Germany in a record six minutes and 45.900 seconds. Saturday’s run was not only the fastest for an electric car, it also beat the production car record.
The economic benefit of the 23rd World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems in Melbourne is now estimated to be $46.6 million - nearly twice the initial projection. The increase is attributed to the higher than anticipated attendance at the 2016 event.
Driverless vehicle technology is likely to be extended in Australia and to New Zealand and South East Asia.
John Allason got an electric car as an 80th birthday present from his son. Now he hopes fully electric cars will one day be as regular a sight as mobile phones, the ABC reports.
Tesla’s taking orders for its “solar roof” - tiles which generate energy from the sun without the need for traditional roof-top panels.
Toronto looks set to become Uber’s next artificial intelligence research hub as the company strives to develop self-driving cars.
Tesla is reporting a US$330 million (NZ$478 million) loss for the first three months of the year ahead of the Model 3 sedan launch. That contrasts with predictions of a US$282 million (NZ$408 million) loss a year earlier, CNN reports.
It sounds like something out of science fiction – roads that repair themselves and that could also charge your electric car. Dutch researchers might have a solution that not only helps the road fix itself, but promises to solve range anxiety for electric car (EV) drivers.
