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Giles Parkinson

Giles Parkinson

Editor-in-Chief at The Driven Australia

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    • Energy
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    Recent Articles

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    Australia’s biggest EV fast charging network shifts from Tritium for first time

    Evie Networks moves away from Tritium for the first time and signs up Finnish fast charger supplier Kempower.
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    EV lobby launches new charging app to displace Plugshare with real ...

    EVC launches new charging app that it hopes will become the “single source of truth” for EV charging in Australia – and obviously a rival to Plugshare.
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    Tesla electric car sales plunge again in Australia – Model 3 down m...

    Tesla sales plunge again in Australia in February, with the Model 3 slumping more than 81 per cent compared to the same month a year earlier.
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    Petrol giant Ampol blames grid delays for meeting only half its EV ...

    Petrol giant Ampol says grid connection delays the main reason it met only half of its targeted EV fast charger rollout by the end of 2024.
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    Trump and Musk pull plug on national EV network as they wage war on...

    The new US administration is to pull the plug on an existing network of 8,000 EV charging ports across the country in the latest decision that favours Elon Musk’s Tesla business.
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    Tesla sales are plunging around the world: Is this just a Musk prob...

    Tesla sales are plunging in key markets around the world – many by more than 50 per cent. Surveys point to the now damaging impact of Elon Musk’s toxic politics. But it is not the only …
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    Tesla sales crash in Australia as Musk impact has consumers looking...

    Tesla EV sales in Australia slump again, with the once market leading Model 3 sedan falling 62 pct below the same month a year earlier. Is this just the market, or is Musk repelling buyers?
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    Low income and frontline workers to access cut price loans in new b...

    Low income households and frontline workers – such as police, health professionals and teachers – will get access to $150 million of low cost loans to help remove barriers to EV ownersh…
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    Tesla sales plunge again in November: Is this the Elon Musk effect?

    Tesla EV sales have slumped again in the month of November, with year to date sales now down more than 20 per cent. Is this the Elon Musk effect?
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    Australian homes with an EV will have much lower energy costs than ...

    Australian households with electric vehicles will have much lower energy costs than those households that own and drive internal combustion engine vehicles.
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    Amber ready to pay customers to charge their EVs as it prepares for...

    Amber offers new product that could see EV owners being paid to charge their cars, but its big focus is on V2G tech that will turn cars into batteries on wheels and households into revenue earners.
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    Tesla and BYD dominance of leasing market shaken by MG, Volvo and p...

    The dominance of Tesla and its big Chinese rival BYD in the leasing market is being shaken by a number of rising EV brands, and the growing popularity of plug in hybrid vehicles.
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    Trump transition team decides to kill EV tax credit, and Elon Musk ...

    Trump to sweep away EV tax credits in stalling US market – to the delight of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the new head of government efficiency.
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    Australian trucking giants to roll out another 54 electric heavy tr...

    Two of Australia’s biggest trucking groups land federal funds to roll out 54 electric trucks and build charging infrastructure to support them.
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    Batteries on wheels: Australia to allow vehicle to grid installatio...

    Bowen says that agreement on new standards means that EV owners will be able to use vehicle to grid technology – effectively using their cars as batteries on wheels – by the end of the …
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    Chinese electric truck claims charging record of 500 kWh in drive f...

    Chinese electric truck maker Windrose claims an Australian charging record of more than 500 kWh in a single session during a trip from Melbourne to Sydney.
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    First Rivian electric utes get ready for Australian mining customers

    The first imported Rivian R1T electric utes in Australia are destined for mining customers as resource groups start to think about zero emissions.
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    Nissan slashes costs of V2G technology to help turn EVs into batter...

    Nissan says it has slashed the cost of V2G charging technology, with new on-board tech making it the same price as existing home chargers.
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    Bowen says Australia won’t ban Chinese EVs as Coalition ramps up su...

    Bowen rejects calls for ban on Chinese made EVs after Coalition seized on US concerns about using software for surveillance purposes.
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    Fortescue’s 6MW electric vehicle charger stuns the EV and mining in...

    Fortescue says it has developed a 6 MW charger that can reboot the 1.8 MWh batteries in its giant electric haul trucks in just half an hour.
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    Hydrogen car is dead and buried, just three years after Morrison ha...

    Former Coalition government made a big deal about hydrogen cars while claiming the EV would ruin the weekend. But no one is about to take a fuel cell car on a camping trip.