Sebastien Buemi withstood enormous pressure from Lucas di Grassi to claim his fourth FIA Formula E Championship win of the season in Monaco, and extend his points lead to 15. From his first Julius Baer pole position of the season, Buemi made a perfect start and soon established a comfortable lead over his title rival, […]
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Plug-in Adventurer Chris Ramsey stars on our front cover this issue, and we got to drive his modified Nissan Leaf 30kWh ‘AT-EV’ (All Terrain Electric Vehicle) while getting the lo-down on his forthcoming adventure to Mongolia. There are loads of reviews in this issue, including first drives in the Toyota Yaris Hybrid by Tim Barnes-Clay
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Next, the retail giant, is the latest company to embrace Rolec’s ‘EV Charge Online’ service, with the provision and management of their electric vehicle charging network. Rolec EV recently confirmed that Next had commissioned a second phase of charge point installations featuring Rolec’s EV Charge Online system, which provides all EV drivers with access to
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Volkswagen’s latest electric concept has been unveiled at the Auto Shanghai 2017 car show and continues the line of I.D branded EVs that the company hopes to play a major role. The latest concept is a smart, in more than one way, CUV that’s clearly been designed with fashion in mind. CUV stands for, “Crossover
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Like streaming motorsport TV? Good news! Motor Trend OnDemand – USA’s largest automotive subscirption video service – has launched in the UK and Europe, providing more than 2,000 hours of automotive content both live and on demand. For racers, Motor Trend has the European Le Mans Series coverage, as well as other less economically minded
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Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE) has led a consortium of organisations, including Unipart Group, Coventry University, WMG (Warwick Manufacturing Group), Productiv, MCT ReMan and The National Composites Centre, in a successful bid for an APC (Advanced Propulsion Centre) Competition to build a high performance, low volume, flexible battery manufacturing facility – the second such facility in
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrW9myyROvk&feature=youtu.be At Autovolt we’re big fans of electrified classic cars. Following our story about the Volkswagen Beetle in issue 15, Nov-Dec 2016, we were offered a glimpse at what can be achieved when electrifying something iconic. The Beetle and classic Campervan may be obvious examples, but the list doesn’t stop there. Kreisel Electric has completely
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Rolec EV has announced several hundred EV charging points are already forming part of its ‘revolutionary’ new EV Charge Online network, since its launch at the end of 2016. A large number of these EV charging points have been installed for leading companies such as Next, Aldi, Taylor Wimpey, Symantec and the NHS among others.
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A new milestone in modern transportation was reached this week as NAVYA, a global leader in the development, conception and deployment of 100% autonomous and fully electric shuttles (see Autovolt issue 17, Mar-Apr 2017), announced that it will open its first operations office in the United States in down-town Chicago. This marks the first NAVYA
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The London Taxi Company (LTC) today announced the official opening of the UK’s first car plant dedicated solely to the production of range -extended electric vehicles. This new, state-of-the-art, vehicle plant in Ansty, Coventry, is where the world’s first purpose-built, mass-market electric taxi will be built. LTC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Geely, has invested more
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