Your next car wash can be eco-friendly. Read more about these car cleaning products that help reduce the harmful impact on the environment! Much of the conversation relating to cars and the environment revolve around internal combustion engines (ICEs) vs electric vehicles (EVs). While different arguments support and refute EVs as the answer to transport related carbon emissions, switching our vehicles is not the only way to be environmentally friendly. Like most ...
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"Electric power good, internal combustion bad" seems to be the popular thinking now, but electricity alone is very far from ideal. Can carbon-neutral synthetic fuels be the realistic solution the world needs? Headlines all around the world have put the writing on the wall: in the UK (Sale of new petrol and diesel cars to be banned from 2030), USA (California to Ban Sales of New Gas-Powered Cars Starting in 2035), ...
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Set to be launched in Q1 of 2022, the full-electric BMW i4 eDrive40 will be followed by an M version. Has it been eight years since the launch of the BMW i3? Needless to say, a lot has changed since then. While the i3 and i8 launched the following year looked otherworldly and futuristic, the all-new BMW i4 takes a more conventional form factor of a four-door fastback saloon (BMW calls ...
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Volvo’s latest XC40 Recharge PHEV crossover provides a semi-EV experience, but works best if you have a private charging point. Plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) are a less common, but steadily increasing, variant of hybrid vehicles. They behave similarly to hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) like the Toyota Prius, except that their batteries can be recharged in two ways. Drive it like a HEV, and the battery charges itself up with regenerative braking. This ...
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The 2021 Kia Niro EV shows the way forward for fully electric motoring with a battery range that’s on par with a typical petrol-powered car. That, however, is just the beginning of what makes it a genuine everyday proposition. If its stock prices are anything to go by, many think that Tesla will rule the Electric Vehicle (EV) market in the time to come. However, I’d humbly suggest that Korean carmakers ...
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Not enough charging points nearby and don’t have the time to wait for your EV to charge up? Here's why every EV owner needs AutoApp, a convenient car care app. If you’re an EV owner in Singapore, you’re probably all too familiar with certain issues regarding car maintenance. For one, despite the growing number of EV charging points in the country, it’s still nowhere near as convenient as finding a petrol ...
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Priced from S$255k, the Lexus UX300e SUV has a 300km range and an 8 year warranty. Owners will also be able to do a short-term swap to any Lexus Hybrid model in conjunction with a new Lexus car-sharing platform. Considering that Lexus was the very first luxury car company to venture into electrified mobility (the hybrid RX400h SUV appeared a good 4 years before anything from BMW or Mercedes-Benz), it’s an ...
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Porsche Asia Pacific and fuel giant Shell have announced a cross-country EV charging network – that means full-electric driving, all the way up to Penang! If there’s one thing that the COVID-19 pandemic has made me miss, its road trips. I miss the days where my passport was actually of some use, rather than being a home to dust bunnies in my cupboard. So, when an email popped into my inbox with ...
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Have you heard the one about the EV that charges itself and runs on petrol? Like the idea of driving an Electric Vehicle but are still concerned about the range and lack of charging infrastructure? Or maybe installing a wall box is out of the question because you live in an apartment? One car that might be an ideal solution for such folks is the Nissan Note e-Power driven here. It has ...
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The Korean brand’s first dedicated EV previews a new design direction for all its future offerings. Read on for more about the Kia EV6. Hot on the heels of Kia’s rebranding with a new logo, slogan, and brand strategy, comes its first dedicated electric vehicle, the EV6. It’s the sister car to Hyundai’s recently unveiled Ioniq 5, sharing its Electric-Global Modular Platform (E-GMP), and presumably a lot of other tech. In case ...
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