TO EV OR NOT EV?

MATT RAUDONIKIS

THE introduction of electric vehicles has been a relatively world, while they are rife in the passenger-car sphere. But 2025 will bring a swag of electric 4x4s to the local market, particularly the PHEV (Plug-in variety. We’ve seen pseudo hybrids like the 48V boosted vehicles from Land Rover, Jeep and Toyota, but More recently we’ve driven the BYD Shark which is a proper PHEV, and soon we’ll have similar vehicles from GWM and Ford … and we can expect a lot more to come. When it comes to EVs for 4x4 adventuring, PHEVs are the only option that make any sense, and even then it’s limited. Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs), which have no internal combustion engine back-up, simply do not have the range to travel very far. A PHEV can…

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4x4 Magazine Australia (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2024

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