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Electric vehicles at Port Melbourne.

The range of EVs is surging, but certain fears are holding back sales

The absence of a second-hand market for electric vehicles is contributing to doubts consumers have over the long-term viability of these cars.

  • Frances Howe

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An electric automobile charging during a tour from Seattle to Mount Rainier in 1919.

Electric cars died a century ago. Could that happen again?

Battery-operated vehicles were a mainstay on American roads - until politicians put their thumbs on the scale, and came down on the side of the oil industry, and petrol-powered cars.

  • Ivan Penn
The discounting in China’s electric car market raises an interesting question. Can an industry be too successful?

Could China’s electric carmakers bring on another Evergrande moment?

China’s electric vehicle industry is starting to look a lot like a re-run of the property sector’s disaster that has weighed down its economy for more than four years.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Kris Degenhardt owns Allpoint Automotive, which is the pilot store for launching Repco’s EV-focused NexDrive program in Australia.

Buying an EV in Australia may be easy but getting one fixed isn’t that simple

While some shops are set up and ready to service electric vehicles, regulations and requirements can make it a struggle.

  • Tim Biggs
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Hundreds more public EV chargers are bound for NSW. Here is where you’ll find them

The NSW government will install 246 fast-charging ports for electric vehicles at 38 locations across Sydney and regional areas.

  • Megan Gorrey
Transport Minister Rita Saffioti in the last ever diesel bus to be manufactured in WA - TP3608.

Why are WA’s diesel buses about to go extinct?

Transport Minister Rita Saffioti and Premier Roger Cook toured the final diesel bus at the Volgren bus manufacturing facility in Malaga on Wednesday morning.

  • Hamish Hastie
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The High Court decision over electric vehicle road user charges will be delivered today.

We talk a big game on electric cars, but Australia is stuck in reverse

Australia is viewed as a nation of early technology adopters, but on EVs, it looks increasingly like momentum has stalled.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Elon Musk’s alliance with Donald Trump and his MAGA movement has hurt Tesla’s profits.

Musk turns away from Trump in bid to rescue Tesla

Elon Musk’s role at DOGE is winding down and his financial support for Donald Trump and the Republicans is being cut back, but the damage has already been done to Tesla.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Cristina Balan is locking horns with Tesla.

The woman who took on Tesla (and wants to see Musk in court)

Cristina Balan was an engineer at Tesla until she pointed out a flaw in the electric car to her boss – then she was sacked.

  • Jim Norton
Slate Auto is making an anti-Telsa; a simple and lower-cost EV it hopes Americans can afford as a first car.

This electric ute is shaping as the anti-Tesla for EV buyers

The US start-up hopes its small and affordable ute will become the Ford Model T of electric vehicles.

  • Tim Biggs

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