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Jaguar joins race for electrification as it firms up plans for Formula E racing team

Jaguar is back in motorsport after joining the Formula E Championship The UK-based luxury car brand will race in the 2016/2017 season “We firmly believe electrification is the future,” says engineering boss Jaguar is swapping the big screen for electric dreams after the luxury maker of James Bond cars announced it is entering the global […]

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Nissan revive Vehicle to Grid plan with Enel

EV News, Nissan Leaf

Nissan announced a partnership with Enel, Europe’s second largest power company for installed capacity, to develop a new “Vehicle-to-Grid” initiative to use, store and return to the grid electricity in excess from Nissan’s electric vehicles. The initiative appears to be a revival of Nissan’s “LEAF to Home” program, which appears to have been abandoned years

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Solar vision or lack off from UK Government

Blog, EV News, Features

It is close to the shortest day of the year and the least productive day in the Northern half of the planet to produce solar energy. A great time to reflect on the approach of our fine Government to energy security and their carbon reduction plan. Today also sees the last remaining UK coal mine

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Nissan Leaf turns 5 with 200,000 cars sold

EV, EV News, Nissan Leaf

This month is the 5th year since Nissan launched the all electric Leaf in December 2010. Since then the Leaf has become the world’s best selling electric car by far. Nissan estimate that Leaf owners have driven a collective 2 billion KM or 1.2 B miles and saved over 300,000 tons of CO2. The 200,000

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Ghosen explains Nissans focus on mass market EVs

Features

The Renault Nissan Alliance will concentrate on mass-market electric cars, rather than luxury models, CEO Carlos Ghosn told reporters at the recent Tokyo Motor Show The success of the Tesla Model S has automakers–particularly German automakers–scrambling to build pricey luxury plug-in electric cars to compete with the upstart from Silicon Valley. But the automaker that’s sold

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BlackFriday Cable Sale

EV News, Features

All EVinfo Cables on Sale over Black Friday weekend. Save 15% on charging cables – use coupon BlackFriday at the checkout. All TYpe 1 to Type 2 Charging cables – Boost the range on your Nissan Leaf or Outlander Plug IN with a new cable and remove Range anxiety.

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VW European owners no compensation offered

Energy, EV News, Features, VW

It seem that the VW Group will not offer compensation to European customers who bought a diesel car with “cheat” software, taking a different tack from in the U.S. where the automaker will provide a goodwill package worth $1,000 to affected owners. In Europe, the automaker will tailor a package of measures to ensure that owners

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Battery Power starts to compete with Peaker Plants

Features

An interesting report from Lazard and covered in the FT confirms what we have known for some time. The cost of battery storage is falling so quickly that they are becoming an increasingly viable option to support the stability of power grids with distributed generation. Power storage has been exceedingly expensive and complex, however battery

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Coal gets fired by Rudd

EV News, Features

The Government has announced plans to close all coal-fired power stations by 2025 and restrict their use by 2023. Announcing the decision ahead of a major speech this morning which will set out a new direction for energy policy which has energy security at the heart of it and delivers for families and businesses, Energy

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Tesla factory tour

Tesla

Tesla have just released a quick factory tour: All over in 90 seconds from start to finish. See the inside of the Freemont facikity where the Tesla model S and Models X are made. The Tesla Model 3 is expected to be shown in March 2016 and we expect that Tesla will open the

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