Electric Cars Driven Hard by Ex-Stig
Former Top Gear Stig, Ben Collins takes a spin in 7 different mid-range and/or lower-price range plug-in electric cars with 7 different passengers. Read more: Inside EVs
Public EV charging network important
Next Green Car today announces the first results from the latest EV survey conducted in partnership with KiWi Power, Carbon Trust and the High Speed Sustainable Manufacturing Institute (HSSMI) who are working with InnovateUK to investigate viable ways of integrating electric vehicles (EVs) into the national grid. The survey, which was conducted in July 2015,
Renault ZOE – Maximizing Range
How does he make his lips move like that? Advics and some practical and simple tools to help you minimize your electricity consumption and thus maximize the range of your Renault ZOE.
Is Greece Planning to Print Energy?
My first repost – I suspect of many – on the subject of Peak Oil Over the past couple of months the story keeping many people on the edge of their seats has been the ongoing dilemma of Greece’s detested debt burden, its Great Depression-worthy 25% contraction of its economy, and its voluntary or even
Oil Prices are on a Roller Coaster
Why do oil prices go down? Because they went up. Why do oil prices go up? Because they went down. That’s what they do. To avoid oil-price volatility, you must kick the oil habit. You can do this by switching to efficiency and renewables. You’ll get cheaper energy services at steady prices; free price insurance;
First Drive of 2015 VW Passat GTE
If anyone needs proof that the world is slowly changing, look no further than the major car manufacturers. These lumbering dinosaurs are being forced, kicking and screaming, into the eco driven future to the extent that they’re even converting their major sellers into green machines. The latest example is this Volkswagen Passat GTE, a plugin
Tesla is the beginning of the end for oil?
A good find by our friends at EV Obsession, apparently a trade magazine from the oil industry, Alberta Oil, has put a Tesla Model S electric car on its cover (“Hell on wheels”) and published an article with this title and sub-title: “Is Tesla’s Model-S the Beginning of the End for Oil? Why battery technology
Birmingham Airport provides rapid charging
This could be very useful for me and other EV drivers based in the Midlands Birmingham Airport has become one of the first British airports to join the Electric Highway and offer fast charging for electric motorists. Green energy company Ecotricity powers their Electric Highway with 100% renewable energy from the wind and the sun,
Autocar reviews the Passat GTE
A pretty positive review overall The Volkswagen Passat GTE is the latest in a burgeoning number of ultra-low-emission mid-size plug-in petrol-electric hybrids to be launched in recent times. To be sold in the UK in both saloon and, as driven here, estate bodystyles, the Passat GTE shares various elements of its high-tech driveline with the
Peak Oil Primer
An introduction to Peak Oil Contrary to popular opinion we do not live in the Information Age. What we live in is the Oil Age. Look around you and you’ll have a virtually impossible task of trying to find something that isn’t tied back to oil – be it hip replacement surgery, the little pieces
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