News from the world of electric and hybrid vehicles.
FIAT of San Francisco, the first FIAT studio to locate in ‘The City by the Bay’, is open for business in the Van Ness Avenue corridor. Although this isn’t particularly exciting news for us over in the UK, it is for our American cousins as the new establishment has opened it’s doors at a very timely moment. […]
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Ford plug-in hybrid vehicles rack up enough electric-only miles every day to drive around the earth nearly eight times – a number rapidly increasing as Ford continues investing in infrastructure while exclusive features like MyFord® Mobile help improve driving habits. Data show Ford plug-in hybrids are being driven about 203,000 electric miles every day and more
Fords Travel 203,000 Electric-Only Miles Every Day Read More »
Electric adn hybrid vehicles are no different to any other vehicle when it comes to tyres. In fact, in many ways although traction control does wonders for providing smooth anti-slip getaways, with the high torque characteristics that electric motors provide, there is even more reason to look after tyres and ensure they’re legal. New figures
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Nissan Executive Vice President Trevor Mann CBE has been granted the Freedom of the City of Sunderland in recognition of his “enormous contribution” to the city’s economy. Council members yesterday voted to confer Honorary Freedom to Mann, who joined the company in 1985 as a team leader in the workforce which launched car manufacturing in
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This year’s Regent Street Motor Show (Saturday 2 November 2013) will be the biggest yet with the display area in London’s busy West End extended from Piccadilly Circus right up to Oxford Circus for the very first time, making the motor show the already well established free motor show even larger. The Regent Street Motor
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We in the UK are no strangers to past and current EV field trials. However, in the USA, BMW have been given an award in honour of their marketing campaign by “Green Power Purchaser” – for their renewable energy programs under the ActiveE electric vehicle (EV) field trial. BMW have been ranked number one on
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Toyota has provided a Prius Plug-in for a new transport initiative giving rail travellers access to a low emissions car club vehicle for the next leg of their journey. The scheme gives holders of train operator Southern’s new smartcard – the key – access to the Prius Plug-in at Lewes railway station in Sussex. The
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In yet another telling display of the value of electric cars in the modern market, the Kelley Blue Book Report for ‘Hot Cars’, published weekly in America, shows the Nissan Leaf as the top ‘hot’ car of the week with the BMW i3 topping the activity growth for ‘weekly shopping’. “There is plenty of news
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The Silk Trail 2013 expedition has reached the half-way point from its starting point at the home of Land Rover in Solihull, UK, to its destination in Mumbai, India. Twenty days after setting-out, the three Range Rover Hybrid prototypes vehicles have reached the deserts of central Asia on the ancient Silk Roads that inspired the
Range Rover Hybrids Reach Half-Way on Silk Trail 2013 Read More »
Sustainable MotoExpo, due to take place on Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th September 2013 at the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu has been postponed and provisionally rescheduled to Saturday 5th & Sunday 6th April 2014. A spokesman for Eco Motorsport, the event organisers, said, “Whilst the decision to postpone the weekend has been a difficult one – it is
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