Electric

XPeng G6 charges in a flash

It’s not yet here but it is in Australia, the XPeng G6. One of its claims to fame was fast charging, able to hook up to 280kW ultrafast units. But soon, it’s going all out on the charging front, a new version maxing out when it hooks up to a 451kW hypercharger.  This then would make it one of the fastest-charging electric cars in the world. All well and good except that 500kW hyperchargers are thin on the ground. Our largest are ChargeNet’s 300kW units at...

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2025 KIA EV3 Light Review

Kia has yet another new electric vehicle on sale in the form of the EV3. It was recently crowned the World Car of the Year. So what’s all the fuss about? If there is a brand that doesn’t seem to put a foot wrong lately it is Kia. Not content with doing very well in the ‘traditional’ vehicle space with a solid range of competent and interesting enough models in most segments, it has simply outdone every other brand in the market on the breadth of its EV offerings. And it now has a new, small(ish) offering in the form...

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