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Tag: electric car
Electrifying Australia’s favourite utes
Australian electric vehicle conversion specialist Roev aims to address the lack of electric ute options by converting popular Toyota HiLux ...
What happened to the solar-powered car?
The ability to skip electric vehicle charging queues and recharge while driving with free, clean energy is among the key ...
Electric vehicle sales rise sharply, but off a low base
Electric vehicles are finally taking off in Australia, but sales will need to grow much faster to reach Australia’s emissions ...
Engineers are working on wireless charging for electric vehicles
Inspired by the technologies used in NASA’s deep space missions, engineers have pioneered a capacitive wireless charging method that could ...
Policy change will supercharge Australia’s highways
While electric vehicle sales in Australia are increasing, the rates are much lower compared with other countries and a change ...
New battery cracks the ‘range anxiety’ problem of electric cars
Engineers have developed a battery that provides enough charge in just 10 minutes to drive an electric vehicle from Sydney ...
When can we expect autonomous taxis to take over our roads?
Give or take a year or two, 2022 should be the year that autonomous vehicle (AV) taxis become sufficiently functional ...
Engineering students are taking solar-powered cars on an epic cross-country road trip
Teams of engineering students from more than 20 countries have converged in Darwin to chase the future of solar-powered travel.
Electric cars could offer more than just transport – like serving as easy energy storage
Electric cars hold the potential to not only form the future of transport — they could also play their part ...
