We received an invitation to attend the launch party of the latest Tesla UK store in Weybridge, Surrey. This sales location is housed in an old Honda shop that has been vacant for some time. Tesla have transformed the building in a high street store with plenty of passing traffic. Weybridge is an affluent area […]
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To celebrate the summer travel season, our friends at Nissan have just compiled their five best Electric Car drives in Europe with routes in five countries: Italy, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, the U.K., and France. Nissan has identified five of Europe’s most breathtaking electric drives, using its all-electric LEAF – the world’s best-selling electric vehicle –
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The best-selling BMW 3 series is getting a make over with slight changes to the body and the powertrain lineup. The cabin is getting a major boost with extra chrome highlights, a redesigned center console and improved materials on touchpoints around the cabin. There’s also an upgrade to the navigation system, which boots up and
All Electric Vehicles need electricity and they need to charge. However charging is not that easy to understand. There is far more to charging than manufactures imply especially as there are a number of differing charging technologies and plugs. Unlike computers there is no Plug and Play. As a daily driver of a Nissan Leaf
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German federal support for electric cars has been lukewarm at best, but it appears that this could change soon. Several European countries–including Norway, The Netherlands, UK and France–aggressively promote electric cars as a way to reduce traffic carbon emissions. Despite its substantial domestic car industry, Germany is not among them.
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The French company DBT is Europe’s leading producer of Electric Car Charging station equipment. As the number of Electric Cars on the roads increase so does the charging infrastructure and DBT makes a large number of the large DC charging pumps like the one shown. The company has recently purchased a new 3,200 sqm building adjacent
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The Economist just published an article on Electric Vehicle adoption and the impact on the recent oil price reductions. The article is titled – Why the low oil price will not harm sales of electric cars “FILLING the tank is one of the more painful aspects of modern motoring as numbers whirr on the pump at
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Shares in Drax fall to lows of £3.50, a level not seen since 2011 and have fallen by more than 50% from their high of £8.00 only a year or so ago. Britain’s Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) said in a consultation published in December it wanted to make changes to the subsidy system
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At last we get a chance to drive the first plug-in hybrid from Audi, the now available A3 sportback e-tron. This is a very interesting car that is exceedingly well executed by Audi. It joins the ranks of Plug In petrol cars with a hybrid drive train incorporating the standard components of a 1.4 petrol A3
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General Motors kicked off the Detroit car show Monday, not with a bang, but with the hum of an all-electric concept car—and a lot of ensuing buzz.
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