Green Technology

OPPO has released its latest Climate Pledges and Low Carbon Development Strategy at MWC 2023 in Barcelona. About a 1/4 of the carbon emission reduction from the peak in 2024 relies on buying carbon offsets, hopefully this reliance on offsets...

Evie Networks electric vehicle (EV) charging network has announced that it has opened a new site in the Northern Territory, beating competitors Tesla and Chargefox to a fast charger presence in the NT. The new site located at Marrara Red...

Embarrassingly Australia currently ranks alongside Russia as one of the only big developed economies without fuel efficiency standards, which require car manufacturers to limit climate pollution from the cars they produce. As explained by the Climate Council, fuel efficiency standards...

While attending yesterday's Australian launch event for Chinese car brand Chery, I was thinking about how only Chinese car brands MG (ZS EV, MG 4), BYD (Atto 3) and GWM (Ora Cat) have so far shown serious intent to...

Chinese electric car manufacturer GWM has announced Australian availability and pricing for their new Ora EV (known as the Funky Cat in UK). As mentioned previously on Ausdroid, the Ora looks kind of like a Mini and while we've yet...

Early on Thursday Paris time, Google announced that they're enabling indoor Live View at 1,000 new airports, train stations, and malls in Barcelona, Berlin, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Melbourne, Paris, Prague, São Paulo, Singapore, Sydney, and Taipei in the coming months. In...

With high inflation and wholesale energy price rises across Australia it's not surprising that Ampol AmpCharge and Evie Networks have both announced price increases this week for their DC electric car fast charging services. Ampol's 15% price rise is across...

MG Motor Australia has confirmed they will be revealing their new ZS EV long range electric car (440km WLTP) alongside the first Australian public-preview of the award winning MG4, at Fully Charged LIVE Australia on the top deck (inside...

Electric car group buying company Good Car Co have just revealed that they're going to sell 3 new electric models in the coming months of 2023. The first model they are announcing is the Peugeot e-2008 due mid-2023. This is a...

Australian car hire companies are making quite a few electric cars available as we've discussed recently on Ausdroid. SIXT Australia is expanding on their existing range of Tesla, Hyundai, BMW and MG electric cars by adding over 500 BYD Atto...

Tesla is now allowing other brands of electric cars to use 5 of its New South Wales supercharger locations. This unexpected move seems to be a trial as all the locations are in rural and regional areas: Bathurst Narooma Hollydene ...

Every now and then at Ausdroid we like to review things that are outside the box, but more recently, the box has expanded and whereas once talking about cars might've been a bit off topic, the modern electric vehicle...

Polestar Australia has released specs for a major refresh of the Polestar 2 electric car, following on from rumours during the last few days that the MY24 Polestar 2 would be quite different from last years model. MY24 Polestar 2...

VW's sporty Spanish brand Cupra has announced that it already has almost 350 deposits for it's new "Born" electric hatchback, just 4 weeks after opening for pre-orders with a price tag of $59,990 (before on road costs). Potential buyers should...

I recently drove 2005km in a MG ZS EV 2022 Excite model electric car including a road trip from Sydney to Melbourne and back, just before and after Christmas day. At the time of writing the ZS EV 2022 Excite...