I read today a news item coming out of Davos (the World Forum for people invested in the status quo), Major Hydrogen Investment Mooted as OEMs and Energy Companies Form Hydrogen Council: At the World Economic Forum in Davos, carmakers and energy companies have announced the foundation of the Hydrogen Council to lay the foundations
[Friday 13th January] This post is about gratitude. Thank you to the following organisations for covering the cost of my POD Point Home Charging Station – UK Government for the OLEV Grant and Hyundai for the balance. A special heartfelt thank you to POD Point Installation Engineer Leighton for his fast, professional installation in such unpleasant
Renault ZOE Z.E.40 Deals We have new PCP prices for January for the new Renault ZOE with the ‘Z.E. 40’ long range battery – we are pleased to announce they are, on average, about £10 per month less than before. The new battery has an ‘official’ NEDC range of 250 miles equivalent to a highly
My daily commute is currently a 64 mile round trip; a beautiful cross country route ending in Milton Keynes (free parking for electric cars – yippee – saves me £20 a week). I know that my first generation Leaf is good for 75 miles in cold weather, increasing up to 90 miles in the summer
Economists and reporters have been saying that electric cars could actually kill the oil industry for a little while now, but it hasn’t made a lot of real-world impact so far. But now Fitch, an enormously influential financial ratings agency, is issuing dire warnings over electric cars. It actually seems impossible at this point to
Tesla may be the catalyst driving electric cars. But just about every car maker in the world is developing either an all-electric car or a hybrid vehicle that runs on both electricity and petroleum. That’s good news for the environment, especially as such vehicles approach price parity with traditional ones. As electric cars continue to
After launching the Model X, Tesla introduced a new seat developed in-house featuring an ‘Ultra White synthetic leather’, which served as a vegan faux-leather option for Tesla buyers. It was only available for the Model X for a limited time, and earlier this year it made its way to the top of the line Model
Renault ZOE ZE40: Got a New EV (for now)
I’ve got a NEW electric vehicle (at least for a few days), but is it any good? James Cooke