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Empire motoring Journalist, Vlogger and general larakin. Pro food and lifting heavy things.

Sodium-ion batteries.

sodium-ion technology could become dominant in the future as a cheaper, safer and greener alternative to lithium. UK-based Faradion are leading lights in the effort to take sodium-ion batteries to mass production, and this year were bought by Reliance New Energy Solar Ltd, themselves a subsidiary of Reliance Industries, India’s …

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C8 Corvette on Track! – An Open Road Extra

In this Open Road Extra We were very fortunate to be invited among a select few to have a go with the Corvette C8 on track! — and the Giga, which was awesome! Here’s that video! Z06 now revealed And check out the full review of the C8 from the …

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The NZ Department of Information

I stumbled across this channel on YouTube, young fellas having a go at some proper journalism I appreciate the shit out of that so I thought I’d share it with you guys and hopefully they keep it going. What we need in this country is some independent people going and …

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Webisode #88 – Hoodrat Sh*t

In this webisode, Jared and I head to Chrome, Chrome expression sessions is our answer to something like powercruise and or summer nats. It’s got a lot of cool shit going on and aside from the waiting around we had a really good time, Enjoy the video! View this post …

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Banned for this skid!

At Chrome Expression Sessions today, This lad got himself in a spot of bother. Uncommon in Burnout comps in New Zealand is the need for neck braces, some argue they limit your range of motion as a negative in regards to being able to look around for walls etc, but …

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Hyundai N74

Some more information is now available on the very exciting Hyundai N 74

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Bloke paints Dicks to get council attention

Kiwi Bloke Geoff Upston has been made internet famous around the world, for highlighting poor roading with highlighter painted dicks pointing them out. Now while this is a great public service for those of us on two wheels, It’s got the attention of the council. Geoff Upson is calling his …

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Ioniq 5 EV – Review – The Open Road

Hey Team, In this episode of The Open Road, we’re taking a look at Hyundai’s Ioniq 5, a full EV mid-size SUV with a very clever trick up its sleeve. Specs Ioniq 5 72kwh AWD Price – $111,990 – $114,990 Rear Motor / Front Motor – 155kw / 350nm – …

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Ultimate WRX

This is the prodrive WRX – A restomod from the 90s to bring the classic WRX into the 2020’s

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Interesting things

Ever seen those dudes on the side of the road, sending long drills into the earth and wondered how its done?

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