Discover why a PHEV might be the ideal balance between EV and hybrid. Featuring Kristian & Luca’s adventures, this guide explores price, use, charging, warranty, and lifestyle — plus a PHEV comparison table under and over $100K to make your choice easy.
Hybrids are still hot, PHEVs can be electric magic, and Chinese EVs are undercutting everyone. Mild hybrids? Decorative. The all-electric bridge is shrinking fast.
Picture this: You’re in the middle of watching your favourite reality show when—bam!—the lights go out. In the good old days, you’d scramble for a torch and start hunting for candles. But in the brave new world of electric vehicles, your car might just save the day. That is, if it’s not a Tesla. Yes, despite its reputation for [...]
Q8 Sportback is one of the better-looking coupé style SUVs. The svelte silhouette conceals cameras and other sensors that monitor the Q8 in space and time, like a TARDIS but more comfortable.
We all love a new car, and Volvo’s brand new EX30 feels fresh and shiny, not just another tired, dinosaur-burning, chariot from another century.
Electric Vehicle (EV) charging, while promising a sustainable future, is currently plagued by reliability issues. Here's why:
EV9 is not a sports car. Although frisky at the traffic lights, tight cornering is best taken with less gusto. On very smooth roads, the ride is perfect and cabin near silent creating a wraith-like sense of Zen.
Readers ask often what the term “electrified” means. Broadly, it is a term the automotive industry uses to greenwash itself. Only a pure EV can be said to be electric, the rest are part fossil-fuelled rather than part electric. 48 hybrids, plug-in hybrids, range extender hybrids, and conventional hybrids all have an electric motor and a battery. Powertrain sizes [...]
The Q5 PHEV comes in regular and Sportback forms as an S-Line with e-Quattro. The 270kw/500Nm hybrid uses a 7-speed S-Tronic, Audi’s name for a double clutch automatic. It gets to 100kph in 5.3 seconds,
He wants to move to a hybrid, but is a good candidate for a plug-in version. The real question is could he benefit from going full electric?
