Neerav Bhatt's blog: electric Australian transportation & sustainable homes
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
A few days ago I drove a Kia Niro EV S media loan review car for a 162km return trip from Marrickville, Sydney to try out and review the newly opened Ampol AmpCharge 6 EV charging bay location at Pheasants Nest South. The similar Ampol AmpCharge... Read More
The Mophie Powerstation Go Rugged with Air Compressor is a very interesting gadget that I’ve tested out recently with some of my EV media loan review cars to decide whether it is a must have electric car accessory, especially if your EV 12V... Read More
A few days ago I tried out the new Engie Chargefox Homebush DFO 120kW fast DC dual CCS 2 electric car charger and was impressed with the price as well as the design and layout. The only catches are that this Vicinity shopping centre only has free... Read More
Sydney electricity distributor Ausgrid has revealed in a video just how efficient they and their partners JOLT are at upgrading big green street side substation infrastructure (Ausgrid calls them a “kiosk”) into JOLT EV charging stations. A truck... Read More
In their marketing MG Australia promise that all versions of the 2022 and 2023 MG ZS EV Excite and Essence electric car are capable of a 11kW AC charging rate. I tested whether this was true twice. Firstly at a friends place connected to their Zappi... Read More
A few weeks ago I was charging my media review loan Kia EV6 Air at bp Pulse Sydenham on the right hand side and wondered why the Polestar 2 that plugged in after me charging on the left hand side was getting a much slower charging speed. By the way if... Read More
These are my thoughts after driving from Sydney to the Western suburbs of Melbourne return, in a MG ZS EV 2022 Excite model small electric SUV electric car, on 23rd and 24th December 2022 with an overnight stop over in Albury. The car contained 2... 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