With sales growing rapidly in the US, ramping in Europe and just stating in Asia Tesla has growing pains. Each car requires a great deal of battery capacity. With a Model X next year and a lower priced car on the horizon, Tesla needs lots on batteries. Given a production target of half a million […]
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Zero Carbon Britain’ on 11 March at 7.30 at the United Church, Jewry Street, Winchester, SO23 8RZ. The Centre for Alternative Technology at Machynlleth in Wales presented their important report ‘Zero Carbon Britain’ to Parliament when it was published towards the end of last year. Alice Hooker-Stroud, the research director, will present their findings. These
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Interesting article in the LA Times today. They cover a prediction from auto industry consultant HIS Automotive who suggest that 2014 will be good for EV sales. IHS Automotive it expects global production of EVs and plug-in hybrid EVs (PHEVs) to rise 67% this year. That compares with just a 3.6% increase in the production
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You might be unfamiliar with the name LTI TXII, but if you’ve ever visited London you’ve probably traveled in one at some point. It’s best known as London’s black cab or ‘Hackney Carriage’, and it’s known the world over for its iconic shape. Nissan has incorporated the black cab’s famous face onto its new London
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Volkswagen e-Golf Following hot on the heels of the e-Up, the new zero-emission version of Europe’s perennial best seller is planned to go on sale in the UK this spring at a price, Volkswagen’s head of R&D Hans-Jakob Neusser suggests, will see it undercut the recently introduced BMW i3. Volkswagen has taken its time developing
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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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