Neerav Bhatt's blog: electric Australian transportation & sustainable homes
In their marketing Genesis Australia promises that all versions of their Genesis GV60 2023 electric car are capable of a 10.5kW maximum AC charging rate. At home using a single phase 7kW charger the promised charging time from 10% to 100% is... Read More
I recently drove 372.6km in a Australian Hyundai Ioniq 5 Dynamiq 2023 electric car around Sydney, from short 10km return shopping trips to a long 287km drive from Sydney to Sutton Forest and back. NOTE: a few days before publishing this article Hyundai... Read More
Aussie electric vehicle (EV) owner interview – I spoke with Lindsay Aristobil-Adele about his purchase of a Kia Niro EV GT-Line 2023 and experience driving, servicing, charging etc. I’m publishing a regular series of articles with the... Read More
Some Australian EV owners are finding that although Tesla just opened 30 Supercharger locations to Non-Tesla EVs in Australia, they aren’t as useful as expected because: charging speeds at 250kW sites are much lower than their car is capable... Read More
I recently drove 762km in an Australian Kia EV EV6 Air (2022/2023) model electric car, a large portion of that distance was on motorways during a family holiday. The car was a media loan review vehicle borrowed from Kia Australia and the temperature... Read More
If you’re wondering how much boot storage space the Australian Hyundai Ioniq 5 2023 has, it’s listed as 527 litres. The wide hatchback style opening is easy to access because the lid opens up so high, just like it’s cousin the Kia... Read More
In their marketing Hyundai Australia promise that all versions of their Ioniq 5 (2023) electric car are capable of a 10.5kW AC charging rate. At home using a single phase 7kW charger the promised charging time from 10% to 100% is approximately 11hr... Read More
The following is a discussion with Aussie electric vehicle (EV) driver Steve Boromand, who drives a Kia EV6 GT-Line for work (we should all be so lucky!). Steve works for Gemtek, one of the pioneers in Australia’s eMobility sector, which has been... Read More
Several Australian Kia EV6 MY22 owners told me recently that they’d contacted Kia Australia asking for a Kia Europe battery conditioning update to be applied to their cars because they wanted to speed up cold weather charging speed at DC Ultra... Read More
In their marketing Kia Australia promises that the EV6 Air RWD 2022 electric car has an On Board Charger (OBC) maximum capacity of 10.5kW. Unfortunately I was not able to test that maximum speed at my usual local shopping centre AC charging station... Read More