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Bio: Alastair Sloane has been a newspaper journalist for 50 years this year. He has had all sorts of newspaper roles along the way, including editing two dailies. He was the motoring editor of the New Zealand Herald for 16 years from 1996 until 2012. He owns a 1968 VW Beetle. Best days at the wheel include doing part of the Land Rover Camel Trophy route in Papua New Guinea, driving a Nissan Patrol over earthquake-hit roads in Guatemala, and a Ferrari Italia 458 on Enzo’s old hill-climb road in Italy.
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February 22, 2022 |
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Australia is looking to rebuild its car-making capacity using its abundance of key minerals to encourage major electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers to set up operations Downunder. The...
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February 18, 2022 |
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First, there’s Citroen offshoot DS Automobiles borrowing from its Formula E race car programme to build a battery-electric (BEV) prototype delivering 600kW and a mind-boggling 8000Nm....
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February 14, 2022 |
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In the past couple of years the number of battery-electric (BEV) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) available worldwide has increased upwards of 40 per cent, to around 370. And...
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February 8, 2022 |
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Looks like Ford may be working on a touchy/feely way to save the manual transmission, if only for niche petrol-powered sports cars like the Mustang or petrol-electric hybrids. A patent...
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January 26, 2022 |
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Patent drawings filed in the United States of a stretched-body version of the current Land Rover Defender 110 have been doing the rounds of the internet. The longer vehicle has been tagged...
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December 17, 2021 |
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An energy supply company executive accused Toyota NZ of not being ready to meet the market for electric vehicles (EVs). “What’s that mean?” company CEO Neeraj Lala asked the woman....
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November 30, 2021 |
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The new Ford Ranger line-up due next year has been designed to further reflect the changing role of utes in New Zealand, from work-only vehicles to family carry-alls. It was something...
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November 19, 2021 |
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Mitsubishi has given the powertrain in its 2022 PHEV Outlander more of everything, including boosting by 52.7 per cent the electric-only range of the SUV, from a maximum 55km to 84km. The...
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November 5, 2021 |
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Toyota and Panasonic are among the front-runners in the race to deliver smaller batteries with a longer life and more range …...
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November 5, 2021 |
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The Toyota bZ4X, the Japanese carmaker’s first battery-electric vehicle (BEV), ushers in the evolutionary next stage of electric automotive power: solid-state batteries (SSB). The bZ4X...
