All-electric Volkswagen Golf receives new tech, more power and big range boost for 2017 – can it compete with the best EVs as a result? Of the near-half a million Golfs sold in Europe last year, only a tiny fraction featured an electric powertrain. Most of those were the plug-in hybrid GTE, too, so the
Last month saw a record number of electric vehicles registered, with 7,667 plug-in grant (PiCG) eligible models sold according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). Beating the previous record – set last March – by around 500 units, the record electric registrations came at the same time as the highest ever number
I was lucky enough to be invited by Mike Dilke of Relaxback UK to be interviewed for his regular podcast on UK Health Radio. We discussed the implications of electric cars for people suffering back pain and looked into some of the possible implications of truly autonomous electric cars in the near future. (… now
With support from Nissan, Renault and BMW, we hosted our first Milton Keynes multi-brand electric car day at our offices in Milton Keynes. In a packed two and a half hours of pre-booked drives over twenty people enjoyed the thrills and spills of electric car driving, with 2 Nissan Leafs, 2 BMW i3’s, 1 Renault
Uber has a few interesting electric vehicle initiatives, like an all-electric fleet pilot project with 20 Nissan LEAFs in London and they deployed a fleet of Tesla Model S in Madrid, but now they are bringing their first EV program stateside. The company will help drivers purchase or lease electric vehicles. They are starting the program in Portland, Oregon, but
Plug-in Prius is a technological achievement, but it’s pricey and we wonder if the regular hybrid is better for day-to-day driving Toyota has been making huge strides with its latest Prius, managing to improve both the driving dynamics and fuel efficiency over the car it replaced last year. Now the plug-in hybrid version of the
I got pretty excited when I heard that London was committing to buying only 100% emission-free buses for all single-decker city center routes. Likewise, when Eindhoven and Helmond bought 43 extra-long electric buses, it felt like one more step toward cleaner, greener cities. Given that Paris, Athens, Mexico City and Madrid are pledging to ban
My brother-in-law sent me a video this morning of a talk given by Tony Seba at the Swedbank Nordic Energy Summit in March of last year. I started watching it with mild interest, as it covered many of the topics I’ve already been harping on in recent posts: • Solar power will keep getting cheaper
Best Hyundai IONIQ Electric Deals We have new personal lease prices for April for the Hyundai IONIQ Electric. And don’t forget, you get your first 10,000 miles of motoring for free (we refund the cost of charging at home). These are the current prices including fuel, road tax and VAT (from 24 April 2017):
A third of Britons set to make switch to electric cars
New figures show that 29 per cent of UK motorists are considering making the switch from a conventionally fuelled vehicle to a zero-emissions one or replacing one electric vehicle with another. As new tax rules punish drivers of all but the lowest-polluting vehicles and cities around the country consider charging drivers of older, more polluting
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