Renault electric SUV (Image: Auto Express/Playback)

Electric family cars are CHEAPER to own than petrol and diesel models

Lower maintenance and charging costs mean they are £132-a-month less expensive If you’re planning to keep your next car for a few years, you should be considering an electric vehicle to save money, that’s according to a new study. Analysis of purchase prices and running costs found that family-size electric vehicles are now more cost

Sainsbury, Asda and Waitrose are members of group lobbying against air pollution crackdown

Transport group, which includes supermarkets, boasted of delaying clean air zones in six UK cities Sainsbury’s, Asda and Waitrose are members of a group that lobbies against clean air measures while trumpeting their green credentials, an investigation has found. The supermarket giants are “powerful” affiliates of Logistics UK, which has lobbied against clean air zones

Now that California is banning gasoline cars, the EV race has begin

California just started the clock on a future that a few years ago would’ve been unthinkable: dealerships full of nothing but zero-emissions cars. On Wednesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom, D, ordered regulators to phase out the internal combustion engine and ban the sale of all new gasoline-fueled cars after 2035. With that, California became the first

Zappi 2018 EV Charge Point (Image: myEnergi)

Rightcharge electric-car tariff and charging comparison site launches

Rightcharge.co.uk lets electric-car owners compare energy suppliers and charger installations; savings of “more than £230 a year” claimed A new website described as “the UK’s first electric vehicle (EV) energy tariff, home charging and installation online comparison service” has launched at Rightcharge.co.uk Citing a lack of information on specialised electric-car domestic electricity tariffs and the

Charging with an Ohme smart charging cable

Wallbox Starts Delivery of Quasar, The World’s Lightest and Smallest Bidirectional Charger for Home

Quasar’s unique technology will deliver vehicle-to-grid and vehicle-to-home functionality that will transform the energy ecosystem by enabling consumers to feed energy stored in their EVs back to the grid or to their homes Octopus Electric Vehicles started installing the first units of Quasar as part of its energy management solution across the UK in August