Electric car sales soar ahead of pay-per-mile tax raid The number of EVs and PHEVs sold last year grew by 23pc and 11%, with a record 473,000 battery-powered and 225,000 Plug in hybrid cars sold overall in 2025, according to data from SMMT. Reporting in the Telegraph, Charles Lester, from Benchmark, said sales had been […]
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At last – First 6 car announced that qualify for the mighty complex EV grant scheme. None get the full £3,750 treatment. As we mentioned recently the labour Government has announced an EV grant scheme to try and push EV uptake after sales plateau. In a scheme that could only be devised by a committee
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The government is set to reduce the cost of certain new electric cars by up to £3,750 through new grants aimed at encouraging a shift from petrol and diesel vehicles. Discounts will be available for eligible cars priced up to £37,000, with the largest reductions for the most environmentally friendly models, as stated by the
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The best thing about electric vehicles in 2019 is that they’ve become trendy. We can thank Tesla for this in large part, because it’s just about impossible to deny that Elon Musk has been successful in his quest to turn a line of electric vehicles into a desirable one, rather than just a responsible one.
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At this weeks annual AGM Audi said it plans to sell around 800,000 electric cars and plug-in hybrids in the year 2025, with 20 electrified models on its product line. This plan is to be called “Audi.Vorsprung.2025”. Audi highlighted plans to produce an electrified variant in each model series by 2025, so that every customer
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Battery-powered delivery vans weighing over seven tons could prove to be cheaper to own and run than traditional diesel vehicles by the early 2020s, according to delivery giant UPS. The prediction is a major boon for Government’s plan to accelerate the number of electric vehicles on British roads, despite concerns that the most polluting vehicles
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Good article in todays Daily Telegraph by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard titled: US has won battle on oil and, as we go electric, is poised to win the war. Read in full at the Telegraph – Highlights below: Over the last week the International Energy Agency and Opec have both capitulated on US shale, acknowledging that the US will achieve unparalleled
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Electric vehicle advocate Plug In Adventures has created a specially modified Nissan LEAF that will be the first all-electric car to enter the Mongol Rally, driving 10,000 miles from the UK to Mongolia this summer. Dubbed the LEAF AT-EV (All Terrain Electric Vehicle), the vehicle is based on a standard 30kWh Nissan LEAF Acenta, which offers
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Another day, another sighting of an Alpha Model 3. This one spotted by Charlie Cho (via Tesla Model 3 Facebook group) yesterday has a more production-looking finish and a new charge port door that is not completely blacked out like the last one caught. But like the previous sighting, it also features the ‘Tesla’ badging front
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As the Geneva Auto opens today to the public, back in Coventry Jaguar Land Rover, the UK’s largest car manufacturer, has sealed an agreement with EDF Energy to buy all its electricity from renewables. Jaguar Land Rover’s electricity supply is backed by Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin (REGO), meaning a proportion of EDF Energy’s renewable energy
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