Tesla expand their European footprint with first UK store Received an invite to the opening of Tesla shop in Westfields Shopping Center in London. With RHD models expected soon Tesla is ramping up UK sales and distribution with the opening of a store in London’s largest and only real shopping mall. They celebrated the opening […]
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Tesla UK test drive day The UK is one of the last major markets to get the Tesla. I guess it’s because it must be a pain and an engineering cost to switch the car to Right Hand Drive. The UK is a large car market and currently the only European market showing any signs
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Tesla Model s Test Drive The Model S is currently scheduled for UK delivery in Spring 2014. The UK is right hand drive, unlike the rest of the world, or at least most of the rest of the motoring world. The design chaps at Tesla have to produce RHD models for us Brits, the Japanese
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Europe has sluggish car sales – apart from the UK most market are hurting So when we learn that the BMW i3 is selling well in Europe that’s big news. According to Automotive News, the German automaker has over 8,000 reservations for the i3 and is considering a production boost above that of the 10,000
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Top Gear hack Paul Horrell reviews a pre-production BMW i3 and likes it. Highlights: One day, the idea of cars driven by electric motors will become routine. After all, diesels were once a novelty, and so were turbos. We’ve just had a drive in a BMW i3 – visually disguised, but the real thing in the way it behaves –
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National Plug in day was a large event in some part of the world – especially the US. It was pretty much ignored in th UK. While in California Governor Jerry Brown marked National Plug-In Day by signing six bills to promote electric cars. The new laws created by these bills will enact or extend a variety of
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