KIA is set to join the full EV club with an all electric version of the NIRO mini SUV. Kia unveiled a new all-electric version of Niro at the 5th International Electric Vehicle Expo in Jeju, Korea. This is a large battery vehicle with a 64 KWh battery pack that KIA claims will power the […]
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Chargers with up to 350kW charging capacity could be installed in 50 motorway locations. The National Grid has pitched a network of 50 electric vehicle charging stations with a capacity of up to 350kW across England and Wales, along with a similar network in Scotland. The Financial Times reports that the company, which runs the UK’s electric grid, has
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Recently Elon Musk gave a shout out to the UK market about the timescales for a local or in other words a Right Hand Drive model 3 version. During one of Musk’s Twitter session, Tom Kiss, one of his followers, asked Elon about Tesla’s roadmap for the model 3 in the UK. In true Elon Musk
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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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All Volvo cars launching from next year will have an Electric Motor. Volvo recently announced that all car models it introduces, starting in 2019, will either be hybrids or purely battery-powered. The decision is one of the biggest moves by a large carmaker to embrace clean energy via electrification. Significant commitments, such as Volvo’s, are becoming more
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More than half of new Norway car sales now full electric or hybrid Sales of electric and hybrid cars exceeded half of new registrations in Norway in 2017, a record aided by generous subsidies that extended the Nordic nation’s lead in a shift from fossil-fuel engines to Electric power. Pure electric cars and hybrids, which
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The days of old smelly Taxis in London may just be starting to end with the introduction of an all Electric Taxi. The all Electric Taxi is now fit for purpose after TFL give it the thumbs up to operate on the city streets. You may recall that the London Taxi firm was rescued by
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New report from What Car? suggests that EV remain a tiny share of the UK new car market. As car magazines go What Car? is on the dull side of spectrum. But it does have a wide and large circulation. Just one in 100 car buyers are actively looking at new electric vehicles despite the
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Growing sales of EV globally Recent EV report from JATO sheds light ton EV sales. The adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) has accelerated as policymakers across the globe pass regulations to reduce emissions of air pollutants, according to the latest analysis by JATO Dynamics. 2017 represents a turning point in the adoption of electric cars,
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Nisan wins EV award Nissan received the ‘Innovation in Electric Vehicles’ Award not just for its all-electric models, but also for its work in developing EV infrastructure and driving wider improvements across the EV industry. The Car Tech Awards judging panel commented; “Electric vehicles are more in the public’s conscious than ever before and no
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