Author: Ben Zachariah

The world’s largest battery maker is targeting the European electric vehicle (EV) market with a brand new battery promising 478km of range with just 10 minutes of super-fast charging – an improvement on figures originally quoted back in August 2023.Chinese battery giant CATL says the Shenxing Pro is the highest-performing lithium iron phosphate battery in Europe, and provides greater than 400km of range with just 20 minutes of charge in real-world testing.CATL has also added some significant safety features, with the battery maintaining power for greater than an hour during a thermal runaway event – thereby allowing the motive force to…

LDV is tapping into Australia’s love of the outside by offering a factory-built campervan based on the Deliver 9 industrial van.Priced from $89,990 drive-away, the 2026 LDV Deliver 9 campervan is the lowest-priced fully-fitted campervan offered by an automaker – and certainly one of the best-value turn-key campervans now available anywhere available in the market.Under the bonnet is a 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbo-diesel engine that sends 108kW of power and 375Nm of torque to the rear wheels through a six-speed automatic transmission, and is fed by an 80-litre fuel tank.The Deliver 9 campervan features 4 leather-trimmed seats (with seatbelts), a double…