Monthly Archives: July 2018

Fuel Included in Top 10 Electric Vehicle Blogs

Blog, Electric Cars, News, Reviews and Comment

It is with great pleasure and pride that I can announce that we have been given the award ‘Top 10 UK Electric Vehicle Blog‘ for our Fuel Included Electric Car Blog. This is in the ‘most comprehensive list of best UK Electric Vehicle blogs on the internet’.

The Best UK Electric Vehicle Blogs list is selected by FeedSpot.com from thousands of UK Electric Vehicle blogs on the web using search and social metrics. These blogs are ranked based on the following criteria:

  • Google reputation and Google search ranking
  • Influence and popularity on Facebook, twitter and other social media sites
  • Quality and consistency of posts.
  • Feedspot’s editorial team and expert review

We thank the judges for this honour – and while you’re here do take a look at the blog.

Do also see if you would find the other EV blogs of interest (just click on the image):

UK Electric Vehicle Blogs

Note that we are also involved in other blogs that you might like:

Nissan Leaf (Image: Qurren/Wikipedia)

Long-Term 2018 Nissan Leaf: Electric Autonomy—Putting Nissan’s Pro Pilot Assist to the Test

Electric Cars, Leaf, News, Reviews and Comment, Nissan

The autonomous driving experience has been, up until recently, an expensive technology reserved for luxury cars. Among others, Nissan is working to bring partial autonomous driving to lower-priced machines. Nissan’s ProPilot Assist is part of a technology package that cost just $650 on our long-term Leaf. That’s a ridiculously good deal. The Leaf’s tech package also includes automatic emergency braking with pedestrian detection, intelligent lane intervention, an electronic parking brake and high beam assist. ProPilot Assist is also available on the Nissan Rogue as well as Infiniti’s new QX50 crossover.

Nissan Leaf (Image: Qurren/Wikipedia)
Nissan Leaf (Image: Qurren/Wikipedia)

Okay, so ProPilot is cheap and available (like me when I was single) but is it any good? To find out we decided to give the ProPilot a workout from Los Angeles to San Diego. Why San Diego? Aside from simply being a destination within reach the Leaf’s driving range, San Diego was the location Nissan chose to launch its new Kicks entry-level crossover, and we were on the schedule to test drive it. The event headquarters was a hotel in San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter with a charging station in its parking garage, so I could plug the Leaf in overnight and have a full charge for my drive home. Perfect.

ProPilot aims to ease the monotony and frustration of a typical freeway commute, and no other freeway in the free world will redline your temper quicker than I-405 in Los Angeles. There’s always traffic. And the I-5 freeway, which links southern Orange County to San Diego is no slouch in that department either. The 130-mile drive from LA to San Diego can easily suck more than 3 hours from your life. So, if there ever was a time we’d like to let the car do some of the driving—this would be it.

Read more: AutoWeek