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  • November 10, 2025
  • 3 minutes Read
New $A22,000 EV takes 88 seconds to have a fully charged battery

In November, GAC, an Australian-bound automotive giant from China, unveiled an electric hatchback called the Aion UT. Then in September this year, a pink Aion UT was spotted testing on Australian roads, hinting at the potential of that car making it into our market in the near future. Now, a new variant of the…

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  • November 10, 2025
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Quentin Willson, Top Gear Presenter And Electric-Vehicle Advocate, Dies At 68

For all its countless contributions to modern car enthusiast culture, the famed BBC motoring show Top Gear was never especially thrilled with the idea of an electric future. But then there was Quentin Willson—one of the original hosts of the show in the 1990s alongside Jeremy Clarkson and others—who had old-school gearhead cred with the…

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  • November 10, 2025
  • 2 minutes Read
Southern US states are set for the most EV range, data suggests

Extreme temperatures can affect electric vehicle range, but the extreme heat of the South is nothing to offset the extreme cold in other parts of the U.S., according to new findings. Vaisala, a Finnish instrumented measurement firm, analyzed the effect of weather and road conditions on EV range across the Lower 48 states, looking…

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