Demand for electric cars is on the rise in Europe and elsewhere around the world, prompting BMW to ramp up production of the i3 and VW to build the e-Golf for longer than originally planned. BMW has significantly increased production capacity compared to the original plan for the second half of 2020 at its Leipzig
We pit the world’s most popular electric car against its first true rival to see if the sales charts are due a shake-up The year is 2010 and I’m explaining to you that, a decade from now, Volvo’s almost-unknown motorsport partner will be wrestling for supremacy with an American car company whose only product to
NUMBER plate changes introduced from Monday will see electric car prices dramatically fall by over £2,000, according to experts at Octopus Electric Vehicles. Number plate changes will ensure a spate of discounts on older models with some electric cars set to fall by £2,208 on average in a 4.7 percent decline. DVLA plate launches usually
We’ve been promised an electric future, and slowly but surely, it’s starting to appear over the horizon. Manufacturers have been able to develop technologies to quell range anxiety, and work with power providers to create robust charging infrastructure. Government support, most visibly in the form of tax credits to consumers, has helped to lower the
Globally the number of electric vehicles (EVs) on the roads is expected to jump to 323 million by 2040 according to new research by Wood Mackenzie. Sales are expected to reach 45 million units per year over the next 20 years, leading to this surge in numbers. In the UK, a surge in EV sales
CAR TAX changes introduced in March 2020 have had a positive effect on electric car sales as uptake has soared, according to experts at analysts Cornwall Insight. Car tax benefit in kind changes saw extra tax fees scrapped on models purchased under salary sacrifice schemes. Tax charges were cut from 16 percent to zero percent
A coalition of UK fleets representing more than 400,000 cars and vans has urged the Government to bring forward the ban on new diesel and petrol vehicles. The Department for Transport (DfT) has finished consulting on bringing forward the end to the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2040 to 2035,
Global Action Plan says 15% of all new cars sold by manufacturers should be EVsIt says 5.7m cars on UK roads are second vehicles in households, which based on their shorter driving distances should be electrified to cut emissions It wants tougher targets for electric vehicle quotas for brands, despite proposed ban on the sale
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Renault Samsung Motors Corp., the South Korean unit of Renault S.A., on Tuesday launched the Renault ZOE all-electric car to boost its lackluster sales. The company began to receive orders for the Renault ZOE on Tuesday, with a plan to begin delivering ordered vehicles in September, a company spokesman
The world’s largest vehicle-to-grid (V2G) project has been launched at a north London bus garage. Nearly 100 new zero-emission electric buses will be run from the Northumberland Park garage, which has been transformed with chargers that will be used for the Bus2Grid project. Initially, it will use batteries from 28 of the state-of-the-art double decker
