Electric Cars

China’s GWM has had a cracking start to the year in Australia and it’s not slowing down anytime soon.

Model Y gets a battery boost.

Nearly two billion dollars? Volvo posts massive tariff-induced on-paper loss.

Hyundai's biggest and most luxurious SUV yet wears an equally impressive price-tag.

Captiva is back but not as you might recognise it.

A luxury, three-row, six-seat SUV that packs more punch than a Porsche 911? It must be an EV, and one with quite the battery and aggressive dual motors - meet the very large, very impressive-looking Cadillac Vistiq, coming to Australia in early 2026. We flew to Detroit for a preview drive.

There is now less risk in buying a used electric car. Auction house Pickles has launched a new EV battery health score for the used electric cars it sells.

XPeng attended this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed and in addition to showing off some new cars, it detailed some technical details about the forthcoming updated G6 electric mid-size SUV.

Toyota has just proven it can sell a lot of electric cars.The bZ3X was launched in China several months ago, with prices starting at about the equivalent of A$24,000. That’s a shockingly cheap EV.It is also slightly cheaper than the BYD Atto 3 in China, which is a better comparison, indicating it would be closer to $40,000 if it ever landed here.It has proven immensely popular in China, with more than 20,000 units delivered to customers and a total of 30,000 orders, according to the brand’s official Weibo social media post.Toyota Australia’s sole electric car, the bZ4X, is not a strong seller with only 427 units finding a new home through the first six months of this year.The bZ3X is produced by Toyota’s joint venture with Chinese maker GAC. It shares its underpinnings with GAC’s Aion V electric SUV, which was due to go on sale in Australia this year.In China the bZ3X is available with three different sizes of lithium-iron phosphate (LFP) batteries: 50kWh, 58kWh and 68kWh. Driving range is either 430km, 520km or 610km depending on the size of the battery. All these ranges are calculated using the more lenient China Light-duty vehicle Test Cycle (CLTC), expect range to be about 20 per cent worse if using the benchmark WLTP measurement. It is powered by a single electric motor that makes either 150kW or 165KW, depending on the variant, and drives the front wheels.It is also fitted with advanced self driving technology, which is a major selling point in China. Inside there is a huge 14.6-inch central multimedia display and a smaller digital driver display.Toyota has given no indication the bZ3X will be sold outside of China, but if it continues t be a red hot seller, it may prove too good to ignore.

Zeekr didn’t exist five years ago and despite only arriving in Australia last year, it already has two models on sale, but the brand’s head of marketing said its the third model that will change everything, the 7X mid-sized SUV.