Jaguar’s big news of 2016 (ignoring other news like F-Pace, Formula E etc) is the company will launch their first ‘electric’ car at the LA Auto Show 2016. Details are scant, to say the least, but following the company’s entrance into Formula E, it makes sense that the big cat enters the world of electrification […]
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For a while now, Volkswagen has lurked somewhere at the back of the class with their electric vehicle line-up. The e-up! was commonly considered too expensive, while the e-Golf offered little over the Nissan Leaf and suffered from less adopted CCS infrastructure. When launched, it’s 118-mile official NEDC range wasn’t significant enough to put it
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Electric cars with big range are big news, as car makers aim to rid us of the horrid notion of range anxiety, a perceived problem rather than an acutal one. Despite recent battery updates to the Nissan Leaf and BMW i3, it is Renault who can claim to be first to launch their newly updated
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ZapGo (www.zapgo.com) an Oxford based technology company has announced a new fast charge technology that will typically charge a mobile device in just five minutes, without the risk of it catching fire. At the heart of this technology is a new type of ‘supercapacitor’ using carbon nano-structures including graphene, materials that are superb conductors, super
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https://youtu.be/NGESYkvDN-w If you’re a fan of George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces on Channel 4, you’ll know who Will Hardie is. Will’s the chap who makes George’s madcap dreams become reality with his, and his team’s at Studio Hardie, engineering skill and determination. Fit and finish is always high on the agenda and although the TV cameras
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Following the sneak preview offered by MINI’s top brass, for the first time, a MINI is available with a plug-in hybrid system. The new MINI Cooper S E Countryman ALL 4 draws on expertise developed by the BMW Group to offer the new Countryman with the three-cylinder 1.5-litre petrol turbo unit derived from the mighty
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Nissan has launched a new and attractive offer for customers of a used Nissan Leaf, with deposit and monthly payments starting from just £175, on select versions of the electric car. The Leaf continues to be the best selling EV in the UK, with more than 3,000 sales this year alone. As a result the
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Drivers Artur PRUSAK (POL) / Thierry BENCHETRIT (FRA) in their Toyota Mirai have managed to clinch the win from title holders Renault, after an endurance Rallye that saw surprises and dramas including an entire town experiencing a somewhat ironic powercut. Torrential rain marred the otherwise scenic journey through France, from Fontainebleau near Paris to Monaco
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Just as BMW electrifies pretty much its entire line-up with the announcement of next year’s BMW 5-Series plug-in hybrid, MINI gets plugged in too, with a new plug-in hybrid.The series development process for the MINI plug-in hybrid car is almost complete. It features a combustion engine and an electric motor enabling pure electric propulsion for
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Distance records for electric vehicles are nothing new, but generally the main objective is complete the challenge in the fastest time possible. Electric cars represent a new type of challenge, however, by combining a distance record with – critically – the minimum charging time possible. Dr. Jeff Allan and his son, Ben Cottam-Allan from Birmingham
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