Mercedes-Benz confirms S500 Plug-In on route for Europe for later 2014 and the US in early 2015 according to news from Detroit Auto Show. Prof. Dr. Thomas Weber, Daimler AG management board member and research and development chief for Mercedes-Benz cars, confirmed that this model is on track to go on sale this year in […]
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We know that in 2013 the US market was a total of 16.5 million vehicles with 96,000 classifies as plug-in electric cars. This represents just over half a percent of the market. Market share is a good statistic: It’s useful, and easy to track. In order get a better understanding it is beneficial to look at
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The jury at Car of the Year 2014 or CotY 14, as they say has trimmed the initial long list to a short list that contains two electric cars: The BMW i3 and Tesla Model S. For this voting phase, each juror selected seven candidates in a simple vote, and the ones with most votes
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Electric vehicles in Norway now account for 12% of new car sales. How can this be? According to Opplysningsrådet for Veitrafikken, the Norwegian information council for road traffic, 12,079 cars were registered in November. Of those, 1,434 featured electric drive–almost 12 percent of the new car total. Most other countries struggle with sub one percent
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The monster German car company VAG have been slow to enter the Electric Car world. This is changing slowly with the unveiling of the VW Up Twin concept car. From the images and press talk this car is coming to Europe soon. The Up Twin uses an 803cc turbo diesel engine in series with a
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Tesla expand their European footprint with first UK store Received an invite to the opening of Tesla shop in Westfields Shopping Center in London. With RHD models expected soon Tesla is ramping up UK sales and distribution with the opening of a store in London’s largest and only real shopping mall. They celebrated the opening
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Tesla UK test drive day The UK is one of the last major markets to get the Tesla. I guess it’s because it must be a pain and an engineering cost to switch the car to Right Hand Drive. The UK is a large car market and currently the only European market showing any signs
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Tesla Model s Test Drive The Model S is currently scheduled for UK delivery in Spring 2014. The UK is right hand drive, unlike the rest of the world, or at least most of the rest of the motoring world. The design chaps at Tesla have to produce RHD models for us Brits, the Japanese
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Europe has sluggish car sales – apart from the UK most market are hurting So when we learn that the BMW i3 is selling well in Europe that’s big news. According to Automotive News, the German automaker has over 8,000 reservations for the i3 and is considering a production boost above that of the 10,000
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National Plug in day was a large event in some part of the world – especially the US. It was pretty much ignored in th UK. While in California Governor Jerry Brown marked National Plug-In Day by signing six bills to promote electric cars. The new laws created by these bills will enact or extend a variety of
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