A SURVEY of teenagers and learner drivers has found that the next generation of motorists see electric vehicles (EVs) as their car of choice by 2026. Their view is supported by futurologist Dr Ian Pearson, who forecasts that EVs will be the new normal in just over 10 years. The views of 800 young people
It’s a big hit here, and the Mitsubishi Outlander plug-in SUV has just got better Mitsubishi’s plug-in hybrid is a big success. To quantify that, this one vehicle takes 50% of all sales in the EV and PHEV sector in the UK. In those sectors it’s the biggest seller in both the UK and Europe.
What an opportune time for a new electric car… Indeed. As owners collectively scratch their chins about just how clean their diesel cars really are, Nissan has given its Leaf an extra 26 per cent of range – hiking it to 155 miles – as well as a bit of a spruce-up. It’s fortuitous timing
Nearly 21,000 plug-in hybrids and EVs sold in 2015 so far, as new tiered Plug-In Car Grant to be brought in for 2016 After the announcement that the UK’s Plug-In Car Grant (PICG) is to be replaced by a new tiered system, sales of both plug-in hybrid and pure electric vehicles have soared. So far
Despite low gas prices, world automakers from Toyota to VW are moving ahead on nonpolluting vehicles. It may be a strange time to talk about fuel efficiency when gas prices worldwide have been plunging – in the United States to little more than $2 a gallon. But worldwide automakers are still stretching for that brass
The truth of Exxon’s complicity in global warming must to be told – how they knew about climate change decades ago but chose to help kill our planet I’m well aware that with Paris looming it’s time to be hopeful, and I’m willing to try. Even amid the record heat and flooding of the present,
In mid-August, TomDispatch’s Michael Klare wrote presciently of the oncoming global oil glut, the way it was driving the price of petroleum into the “energy subbasement,” and how such a financial “rout,” if extended over the next couple of years, might lead toward a new (and better) world of energy. As it happens, the first
As a new chairman is appointed to the Intergovernmental Panel on climate Change (IPCC) a University of Manchester climate expert has said headline projections from the organisation about future warming are ‘wildly over optimistic.’ In an article published today in Nature Geoscience Professor Kevin Anderson says that IPCC claims that “global economic growth would not
Environment minister vows to make gasoline, diesel taxes even Decline in diesel’s share of Europe car market may accelerate France plans to end tax breaks for diesel, ending the special status long enjoyed by the fuel in the wake of Volkswagen AG’s emissions scandal. French Environment Minister Segolene Royal told journalists after a cabinet meeting
Best electric cars in the UK: Which EVs to buy in 2015
There are more electric cars than ever, but which is the best one for you? In 2015, the electric car market is booming. According to the UK’s Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders, 512 electric cars were sold in January of this year, a 58% rise from the same period in 2014. Sales of hybrid
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