News from the world of electric and hybrid vehicles.
The New Peugeot Partner is now available to order and amongst the lineup of petrol and diesel vans is an electric variant too. The new Peugeot Partner was debuted at the Commercial Vehicle Show in April with the most obvious difference being a revised front-end design. More than 32,000 Partner vans were sold last year […]
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The all-new Metrocab, made by Frazer-Nash Research Ltd and Ecotive Ltd will enter volume production next year in Coventry. The plug-in hybrid taxi will be manufactured by Multimatic. Multimatic is a Canadian company with worldwide facilities, responsible for the manufacture of components and systems to the automotive industry. The company produces complete vehicles from body
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Formula E has been an invigorating race series with a truly unpredictable nature, keeping everyone guessing as to what will happen next. So far, every track (bar Monaco) has given a winner that didn’t start from pole position…
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FIA Formula E Moscow ePrix – 6 June The pen-ultimate track (but not race) of the first season of Formula E takes place on Moscow streets. The video above gives a good impression of what the course might look like – vaguely – as it was taken during an early demonstration before Formula E even
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Perhaps you’ve heard that Lucas di Grassi won the Berlin ePrix on Saturday 23rd? At least, he did initially. However, the posthumous results are that the Brazilian driver has been excluded from the results list after post-race scrutineering identified the front wing was non-standard and had been modified. Initially, the team argued the alterations had
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The carsharing service DriveNow has added the electric BMW i3 to its fleet of available vehicles. DriveNow customers in London are now able to use the all-electric premium model by BMW i. This will be followed by the global roll-out of the BMW i3 in DriveNow vehicle pools during summer 2015 at several German locations
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Nissan’s crazy, brave and pioneering Le Mans racer is almost ready for its first competitive outing on the race track, in this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours (13-14 June). Ahead of the historic event, Nissan have finally unveiled the true specification of the car and it is pretty exciting stuff! The monstrously powerful car is
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We all know of lithium-ions, the chemistry used within batteries, which power everything from smartphones to electric cars. There are other chemistries too that do not receive quite as much attention. Familiar types such as Nickel Metal-Hydride (NiMH) are common place, but generally regarded as not being as useful as lithium-ion. However, there are plenty
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AutoVolt drove the new plug-in hybrid Golf GTE in our latest issue. We were impressed by its ability to perform as both an electric car and a sports car when desired. Did we ever feel it lacked power? No. However, someone at Volkswagen obviously did. Our latest issue is available here. As a concept car,
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Following the digitisation of vehicle excise duty, the DVLA’s next digital-age venture is to annul the paper counterpart driving licence in favour of the system being online. From 8 June 2015, the paper counterpart will not be valid and will no longer be issued by DVLA. The good news is, for most people, this will
How does the Driving Licence Paper Counterpart Change Affect You? Read More »
