It could be the ultimate cure for ‘range anxiety’. Will the world of electric cars give battery swapping a chance? A decade ago, just as the Tesla Model S was beginning to upend the automotive world and before Elon Musk was richer than Midas and still looking for ways to keep the nascent company afloat, […]
What a Tesla road trip taught the CEO of Australia’s largest network of EV charging stations. In March, I took the plunge and drove from my home in Melbourne to Adelaide and back again in an Electric Vehicle – a Tesla – for a journey of over 1500 kilometres (you can read my detailed blog […]
It’s the start of a new era for luxury car maker Rolls-Royce as its first fully electric vehicle, the Spectre, arrives Down Under. But be warned, there’s a waitlist. The car, which debuted in Australia in early November, marks the first step in a pledge to have every Rolls-Royce running on electricity by 2030. Australia […]
Jaguar Land Rover, or JLR as its corporate identity is now called, is fighting back. Earlier this year, the company relaunched itself as a “House of Brands” comprising Jaguar, Defender, Discovery and Range Rover. This included a £15 billion ($18.5 billion) investment pledge over five years. Now details have emerged how some of that money will be […]
German automaker Mercedes-Benz has unveiled its Concept CLA Class at IAA Mobility 2023 in Munich, Germany. The upcoming vehicle is part of the group’s first family of complete electric vehicles. Alongside a glass roof, low-energy LED lights in a star pattern and a supercomputing AI system to facilitate automated driving, a major feature of the […]
Shares of Aston Martin were up nearly 12% Monday morning, after the luxury carmaker reached a $232 million deal to enter the electric car market with the help of Lucid Group. Key Facts California-based carmaker Lucid Group will get a 3.7% stake in Aston Martin—worth about $US232 million—in exchange for providing the company with the […]
As the luxury carmaker shifts to a more sustainable model, production of its W12 engines will finish in April 2024. Rev-heads around the world are waking up to the news that luxury carmaker, Bentley, is ceasing production of its iconic W12 engine. “When we first launched the W12 back in 2003, we knew we had […]