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…
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…
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…
With Tesla and Solar City merging after the Tesla purchase the combined company will be looking to get its balance sheet more in order. Both companies have a huge appetite for cash burning. Factories are highly expensive, especially when they are vast. Both Tesla with Giga Factory and Solar City with a Solar Module plant…
An ultracapacitor, also some times called a supercapacitor, is an electrical component capable of holding hundreds of times more electrical charge or energy than a standard capacitor. This characteristic makes ultracapacitors useful in devices that require relatively little current and low voltage. In some situations, an ultracapacitor can take the place of a rechargeable low-voltage electrochemical…
