Outside of Norway and the Netherlands, electric vehicle market share remains under 1 percent, even in environmentally progressive countries such as Iceland and Sweden. While the benefits of wider electric-car adoption — including reduced urban air pollution and a lower long-run cost of vehicle ownership — are well known, researchers in Britain have put some
Generally, there have been two approaches to creating electric automobiles: Stuff batteries and an electric motor into existing gas-power cars, or start from scratch and create a new design. Not satisfied with either of those methods, BMW in a sense used a time machine. Its new i3 is a deep dive into what the car
Forget the so-called ‘pause’ in global warming—new research says we might be in for an era of deeply accelerated heating. While the rate of atmospheric warming in recent years has, indeed, slowed due to various natural weather cycles—hence the skeptics’ droning on about “pauses”—global warming, as a whole, has not stopped. Far from it. It’s
Massive switch to electric cars could save drivers £1,000 a year on fuel costs, if infrastructure is built to support the vehicles Electric cars could cut the UK’s oil imports by 40% and reduce drivers’ fuel bills by £13bn if deployed on a large scale, according to a new study. An electric vehicle surge would
Green move adds electric cars to government car fleet. Over 100 plug-in cars and vans will join the government vehicle fleet as part of a commitment to green transport, the government has announced today (10 March 2015). Fifteen government departments and agencies, including the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Ministry of Defence and the Home Office,
Europe, with over 9,500 plug-in electric car sales in January 2015, far exceeded the US’ result of 5,924. This year began especially strong for Volkswagen, which seems to now be most popular brand among plug-in electric car buyers. We are not sure if VW will be able hold onto the #1 spot, but in January
FOX Car Report Gary Gastelu takes a road trip in the BMW i3 REx range-extended electric car.
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Getting Familiar with the Nissan Leaf
The most popular car we supply is, naturally, the Nissan Leaf – the most popular electric car in the UK and, in fact, the world. However, being a Renault ZOE driver, it is relatively unfamiliar to me. I’ve only driven it twice, once way back in 2012 and the second time more recently during the
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