DRIVE NOW March/April 2022

New EV
With
1100 km
Range
Range anxiety? Well, you don’t need
1100kms of range to do the daily
drive (Australian average daily drive
= 38kms), but it sure would help on a
trip from Sydney to Melbourne, where
you wouldn’t even need to stop for a
battery top-up.
Solar 3.0:
This New
Technology
Could Change
Everything
Perovskite, named after Lev Perovski who discovered the mineral
in the Ural mountains in 1839, solar cells are being researched
globally and are on the verge of being incorporated into
commercial applications.
Perovskite solar tech has a much higher efficiency than the
typical silicon cells that we see on rooftops today which are
about 20% efficient. By comparison Perovskite cells have an
efficiency double that with a real-world level of around 30%+
and are up to 15 times cheaper to produce. It is predicted that
incorporating these cells into vehicle bodies will be the way
the majority of EVs will be built in the future, harvesting energy
directly from the sun. Already Lightyear, Sono Motors and Aptera
Motors are incorporating existing solar tech into their models.
Hozon is the parent company of Neta
Autos, and by the end of this year,
they are going to be one of the biggest
car manufacturers in the world - and
nobody's heard of them!
Neta has three models of EVs
available in China and their sales are
skyrocketing. The 1100kms Neta S is a
stunner, chock full of tech and due first
deliveries at the end of the year.
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