News from the world of electric and hybrid vehicles.
Andretti Sports Marketing has been appointed by Formula E to be the official event organisers for the Miami Formula E race – a new fully-electric racing championship taking place on the streets of Downtown Miami on 14 March 2015. Based in Indianapolis, Andretti Sports Marketing is a sports, entertainment, event and experiential marketing company that […]
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More good fleet news for Toyota who’ve sold more than 250 of their Auris Hybrid to Britain’s third largest trade union, GMB. GMB claimed that buying British was a top consideration for them to help support the economy. Being British built, Toyota’s Auris was therefore a good starting point. Signing the deal with GMB to
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Selling their 3,000th LEAF electric vehicle (EV), Nissan has marked itself as the electric car leader in the UK. The car maker hit the landmark in November when a total of 141 new British-built LEAFs were registered at dealerships across the country. Although the figures are very low for a production car, they do at
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Red Bull, BT Fleet, Birmingham City Council and Iceland are just four of 100 businesses taking part in the Energy Saving Trust’s Plugged-in Fleets Initiative. The programme offers free support and advice to help organisations understand if they can benefit from electric vehicles. Each participating fleet receives 3 days of free consultancy and a tailored report
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Nissan Europe commissioned Master Perfumer and Aroma Academy Scientist Dr. George Dodd to create a scent of the future – a smell that may encompass emotions of a utopian world where electric; zero-emission (ZE) cars are the only vehicles and the nature’s balance has returned. The result is an amusing but quite incredible take on
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The name remains unchanged but the technology is completely new. In the 2014 season, Audi is aiming to achieve the hat-trick in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) and another success in the Le Mans 24 Hours with a Le Mans prototype that has been redeveloped from scratch – combined, yet again, with technical innovations
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Not news as such, more an excuse for some interesting photos, Volkswagen’s superb hybrid XL1 supercar (not in the speed sense but in the technology stakes it certainly is) hit the streets of New York. Some very lucky Volkswagen employees are conducting a month long tour across America which takes them right across from Los
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Unfortunately, many people, particularly over the Christmas period, lose their lives due to drink driving. The issue is serious. It is a sad fact that the statistics are despite numerous anti-drink drive campaigns pushed out year upon year at Christmas time, but despite these campaigns aiming to educate, the statistics for drunk driving are still
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Venturi Automobiles today (9 December) announced a joint venture with award-winning actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio to enter a team in the new FIA Formula E Championship – the world’s first fully-electric race series beginning in September 2014. The announcement also means the previously released press release by Bluebird that they would enter the inaugural
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Only a week after the World Championship winning Audi R18 e-tron quattro race car’s last run in a race, its successor is ready to hit the track. Tests of the new LMP1 sports car, which has been kept under wraps up to now, commence today on the U.S. race track at Sebring (Florida). Audi Sport in Ingolstadt and
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