Nissan UK has just announced plans to invest £26.5m in its production of electric vehicle batteries in Sunderland. These will be used in the next generation Leaf. The announcement may end rumors that Nissan would outsource production of lithium-ion cells and perhaps even battery packs for the next Leaf to giant Korean maker LG Chem. […]
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The government has woken up and acted in a rare display of sensibility extended the Plug In grant that was due to expire at the end of February. Yes Andrew Jones, Under Secretary of State at Department for Transport who has responsibility for OLEV of Office for Low Emission Vehicles, said: “The UK is a
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Do you want to know where you electricity comes from? As an EV driver you have zero tail pipe emissions but the power your charging cable takes from the wall comes from a power station. UK power generation is a mix of Coal, Gas, Nuclear and tiny bit of Wind and a slice of Biomass
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Great article in this weekends Telegraph by Christopher Booker analysis the latest government energy policy dished out by chief nimwitt Amber Rudd. See the article at the Telegraph or read it below. As David Cameron’s Cabinet colleagues fan out across the media to tell us how catastrophic it would be for Britain to leave the
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London needed only seven days to exceed EC pollution limits for all of 2016. By the end of the week, levels of NO2 (Nitrogen dioxide) had already exceeded the limit of 200 milligrams per cubic meter more than 18 times in Putney High Street since, as much as EU regulations will allow for an entire 12 months. Damning a
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Last year 2015 looks as if a record number of cars rolled off the forecourts at British car retailers as rising consumer confidence, low fuel prices and easy credit helped the market’s continued growth. UK car sales have staged a remarkable runover the past four years, with 43 consecutive months of growth only broken in October,
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Yes it is once again CES time, the annual gadget fest in Las Vegas dedicated to all things consumer electronic and this year has a large focus on Electric cars. We are expecting a slew of announcements from Ford, VW, BMW and Google on their plans and views for future EV products. We will report
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As you may have seen OPEC is hurting and the recently issued annual World Oil Outlook report is just crazy for more oil. The reports sums up 2015 as Challenging: Since the publication of the 2014 edition of the WOO in November last year, the most obvious market development has been the oil price
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