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The French announces ban on petrol and diesel cars in 2040 – moving to pure EV world

France’s new environment minister, Nicolas Hulot, has announced a series of measures today aiming to make France a carbon neutral country by 2050. The most radical one is a ban on petrol and diesel cars in 2040. That’s still over 20 years away and a great deal can and will happen in that time. Several countries have suggested […]

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Tesla's Musk Tweets Model 3 ready for production

EV News, Tesla / 1 Comment

Last night Tesla’s Chief Executive Elon Musk tweeted that the Model 3 passed all regulatory requirements for production two weeks ahead of schedule. ”Production grows exponentially, so Aug should be 100 cars and Sept above 1,500,” Musk said on Twitter. “Looks like we can reach 20,000 Model 3 cars per month in Dec.” “Expecting to

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Volkswagen to invest €15 billion in advanced powertrains over next 5 years

EV News, VW

The Volkswagen Group has invested some €3 billion in “alternative” drive technologies over the past five years, and plans to triple this amount over the next five years, said CEO Matthias Müller at the company’s Annual General Meeting in Hanover. By our calculation three times €3 billion is about €15. billion. That’s a lot of money. “The

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Another Tesla model 3 caught in the wild

EV, EV News, Tesla

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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Drivers get hit again with new VED tax and misleading fuel consumption data

Battery, EV News, Features, Sales and marketing

Good old honest John has once again shown how bad many of the stated MPG claims are. Drivers are facing a new cost-of-motoring crisis, with the new VED (road tax) system and misleading fuel economy figures adding more than £1000 to the long-term running costs of Britain’s best-selling cars, according to new research from HonestJohn.co.uk.

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Harrods goes Green with Nissan e-NV200

Energy, EV News, Nissan

Harrods takes delivery of custom EVs. Over 100 years after the legendary London store first added an electric van to its fleet, Harrods is once again returning to EV technology, with the addition of the 100 percent electric Nissan e-NV200 delivery van. The British department store is the latest European business to add a zero

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Kauai switches from dirty diesel to solar with Tesla battery storage

EV News, Solar, Tesla

The Hawaiian island of Kauai plans to give us diesel generators and complete the switch to solar to power the islands electrical needs. Tesla battery packs are uses in more than electric cars. On Kauai Tesla has installed 272 power packs that store energy from 55,000 solar panels This project will save Kauai 1.6 million

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London to add £10 T Charge to dirty cars in October

Energy, EV News

Drivers of older, more polluting cars and vans will be hit with an extra £10 charge to drive in central London from 23 October 2017, the Mayor of London has confirmed. The new toxicity charge, known as T-charge, will affect both diesel and petrol cars with pre-Euro 4 engines, broadly those registered before 2005. It

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Tesla test drives

EV News, Sales and marketing, Tesla / 1 Comment

Tesla Events Our friends at Tesla are bringing the Model X and Model S to a number on Road Shows around the country. With locations around the country including Surrey this is a good time to check out the new Model X in Right Hand Drive and experience the Auto Pilot feature. See Booking Page at Tesla

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Economist Editor's Pick – Article on Electric Cars

EV News, GM

If you check out the Economist’s website site and read the Editor’s pick you will see a good article on the growing adoption of Electric Cars. The post mentions the constant updating of the rise of the EV and that estimates are being ramped upwards as this graph shows. One car in a hundred sold

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