Tesla have a problem with how to ramp production of the Model 3. Since the first showing on March 31st this year Tesla has been swamped with orders that may well be over 500,000 by now. In order to bring production in line with market demand Tesla have hired Audi manufacturing guru Peter Hocholdinger. According […]
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We uncovered a new and relatively informative website. The European Commissions view of alternative vehicles statistics at the European Alternative Fuels Observatory (EAFO) website. Eafo.eu The site details sales of BEV and PHEV that Battery and Plug-In Hybrid electric cars by country by year and seems to be updated monthly. The site is an European
Peabody filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday, the most powerful convulsion yet in an industry that’s still waiting for the coal market to bottom out. The company is seeking to reorganise U.S. operations in federal court in its hometown of St. Louis, reducing an estimated $10.1 billion in debt, according to court filings. It’s the biggest
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Not content with the Boris Bike, London continues to experiment with clean transportation and now has five Electric Double Decker Busses in operation. Transport for London (TfL) has been experimenting with several kinds of battery-electric and fuel cell buses since 2013. Now it has introduced an electric version of the capital’s iconic double-decker bus
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The BBC Report that Nissan has suspended the functions of an app that could have been used to hack its Leaf electric cars. The action follows the revelation that a flaw with the software meant that an attacker could run down the battery of a target’s car and see data about its recent journeys. The
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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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