We set three Netmums bloggers challenges to see if ultra low emission vehicles worked for them. Clara wasn’t convinced that a ULEV would suit her busy day to day life so we gave her a Volkswagen e-Golf for her everyday driving tasks, to discover that ultra low emission vehicles are just like any other car.
[13 April] More than half of Londoners want diesel vehicles banned from the city centre to cut toxic air pollution blighting the capital, a new poll reveals today. The YouGov survey showed 55 per cent of adults in the city back a crackdown on buses which experts blame for the largest proportion of nitrogen dioxide
[7 April] Electric vehicle registrations had another record braking month in March, this time seeing more cars eligible for the UK Government’s Plug-in Car Grant (PiCG) sold than ever before. March’s total of 7,144 PiCG eligible cars smashes the previous best monthly total of 6,104, set in March 2015. The record sales again took almost
On my long distance travels in the ZOE I’ve noticed that it’s becoming more common to have to queue at a charge point. We’ve not yet had a big problem with it – either we’ve had to wait no more than a few minutes, or else on the motorway we’ve just moved on to the
A proposed diesel car scrappage scheme would have very little effect on air quality – unless implemented on a huge scale – and instead support should be given to electric vehicles, according to analysis by the RAC Foundation. The idea, proposed by think tank Policy Exchange last month, suggested that a scrappage scheme be set
Buying a Tesla might lead to greener choices elsewhere NEW YORK — It’s one thing to get people to care about the price of energy. It’s quite another challenge to get them to care about the source of energy and its environmental impact. But buying an electric car — presumably, in part, to reduce one’s
[7 April] Last week Tesla unveiled the Model 3, a mass market, affordable electric vehicle with a starting price of $35,000 and a two hundred mile range. In just over five days, more than 276,000 people put down $1,000 to reserve their own Model 3, signaling that American appetite for electric vehicles (EVs) is on
Dutch Labour party wants to halt the sales of petrol and diesel cars by 2025; is this the beginning of the end for the mass-produced combustion engine? Dutch Labour party PvdA is pressing for the banning of sales of all petrol and diesel cars in the Netherlands from 2025. The proposal has been met with
[6 April] This past week was unprecedented in the history of the automobile. Tesla Motors began accepting orders on the Model 3. In three days, they took some 300,000 reservations for the car, each with a $1,000 deposit. If they all come through, that equates to over $10 billion in sales–in three days. For perspective,
The response to our article on Monday “Tesla Motor’s Elon Musk just killed the petrol car” was as fascinating as it was overwhelming. It is on track to be the most read story on our web-site to date. The response was fascinating because it came from a mixture of those prepared to imagine the future,
