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South Australia's Ace EV rolls out its first electric cargo van

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The Ace Cargo is designed as a simple, practical electric delivery vehicle

Compact and humble, the first of Australia’s Ace EVs rolled out to meet the media this morning in South Australia. With a range of around 200 km (124 miles) and a carrying capacity of 500 kg (1,100 lb), the Ace Cargo is a simple, practical delivery vehicle its creators hope will hit the sweet spot early.

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Empa's low-cost FlexWork digital valve train uses up to 20% less fuel in testing

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Full digital control over valve lift, opening and closing times for all valves, in a system ...

In this transitional period between the gasoline and electric ages, there’s still plenty of room, and plenty of motivation, for last-gasp improvements to the combustion engine – and a Swiss R&D facility says its electro-hydraulic, fully variable valve system is already delivering up to 20-percent fuel consumption reductions in testing.

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The best of Aussie-style off-road camping from the 2019 Australian 4×4 Outdoor Expo

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Australia is nearly the size of the United States, but has less than a tenth of its population, mainly dotted around the perimeter. It’s a rough, rugged and beautiful country, and it offers some of the toughest and most rewarding camping on t… Continue reading The best of Aussie-style off-road camping from the 2019 Australian 4×4 Outdoor Expo→

Review: Pocketalk translator puts 74 languages at your fingertips

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The Pocketalk translator is a super-portable Babel fish of a device that allows you to speak to people in up to 74 different languages at the touch of a button. Weighing around 3.5 oz (100 g), it’s smaller and lighter than a smartphone to car… Continue reading Review: Pocketalk translator puts 74 languages at your fingertips→

Acura moves to resurrect its performance sub-brand with new Type S Concept

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Acura will be hitting The Quail this weekend with a concept designed to re-ignite some of the brand’s performance sedan credentials. The snazzy Type S Concept paves the way for an upcoming souped-up TLS Type S…
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Volkswagen delivers on its threat of a T-Roc convertible crossover

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Perhaps in retaliation for the mean things people said about the brand after Dieselgate, Volkswagen has decided to inflict a convertible crossover on the motoring world with today’s release of the T-Roc Cabriolet…
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Video: Chris Birch puts your boring life in context aboard KTM 790 Adventure R Rally

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Adventure motorcycles appeal to the spark of the swashbuckling cross-continental wanderer in all of us, and nothing stokes that fantasy quite like watching an enduro god like Chris Birch spank the daylights out of one in heart-rendingly gorge… Continue reading Video: Chris Birch puts your boring life in context aboard KTM 790 Adventure R Rally→

Rezvani Tank X: Bulletproof urban war machine becomes the world's first 1,000-hp hyper-SUV

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More than 1,000 hp makes the Rezvani Tank X the world's first hyper-SUV

Nobody this side of Howe & Howe knows how to overcompensate like the Rezvani team, and the new Tank X is so brutally macho that you’d need to be Dwayne Johnson to hang your arm out the window and look right. Starting at US$349,000, meet your new 1,000-horsepower off-road hyper-SUV.

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Volkswagen's barnstorming I.D. R to tackle China's most spectacular mountain road

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The 99 curves of the Tianmen Shan Big Gate Road are shaping up as an iconic ...

Volkswagen’s barnstorming electric race car already holds records for Pikes Peak, Goodwood and the Nurburgring, and now it’s headed to China, where it will tear up the famous 99 turns up Tianmen Shan Big Gate Road, one of the most spectacular roads on God’s green Earth.

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Norway's Fresco Motors announces the Reverie, a super-quick premium electric sedan

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The electric Freco Reverie will offer blistering acceleration, sky-high top speeds and a "built in Norway" ...

Norway has famously adopted electric cars at a staggering rate – some 60 percent of all cars sold there this March were battery-powered. According to Forbes, a number of factors are behind this success, from sales tax breaks, free parking and bus lane access to the fact that almost all the country’s power comes from hydro-electric plants, tipping the scales even further toward EVs as a pollution-busting solution.

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