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Do PHEVs have a standardised fitting across all manufacturers? If I fit a recharging pod at my home, say for a BMW and later change to a Kia, will the same pod charge that car?
I travel 250 miles a week for work, then weekend driving too. Most of my driving is stop start infuriating M6 traffic, hardly ever breaking the 40mph level. Is it worth me getting say a Tesla Model 3 as...
For EV owners who do not have off-street home charging and are thus forced to use public EV charging, will repeated use of high Kw rapid chargers damage the battery in the long term?
What happened to solid state batteries? They were going to transform electric cars, with full charging times in minutes?
I want to replace our Smart Fortwo with as small a car as possible but that still seats four. As it's only a shopping car, we are looking at the Renault Zoe, but my car having been a faultless series of...
What is the smallest EV car available? Closest in size to a Hyundai i10 preferred.
The Government will apparently pay up to 35% of the total cost of EVs and PHEVs but reading up and trying to do my homework on government grants etc they only pay up to £3500 towards it which I feel is...
I'm looking for an electric car that can tow a small trailer for gardening. I have a diesel for distance and can use that for towing but would like to try and reduce the families CO2.
When do you think the Volkswagen ID.3 and SEAT el-Born will actually be available? Any other similar cars to look out for?
I have been told that to replace the tyres on electric driven cars costs five times that of normal tyres. Is this true and if so why?
 

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