A British-built world beating electric racing car will be one of the star attractions at the Regent Street Motor Show on Saturday 2 November. Proving the ‘E’ in EV can stand for ‘excitement’ just as much as ‘electric’, the Drayson Racing Technologies Lola B12 69/EV Le Mans prototype will be on the Michelin stand at […]
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Bentley has become the first automotive manufacturer, and among the first ten organisations in the world, to achieve the Carbon Trust Water Standard. This comes after the company reduced its water usage by 35.7 per cent over the previous year at its headquarters in Crewe, to 109,284 m³ in 2012. Achieving this reduction, Bentley’s Environmental
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Four-time Formula One World Champion Alain Prost has today joined forces with Jean-Paul Driot, founder of leading GP2 and Formula Renault 3.5 team Dams, to enter the FIA Formula E Championship – competing as new team e.dams. The new team launch, held at the L’Atelier Renault on the Champs-Elysées in Paris, was attended by racing
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Volvo Car Group has been a partner in an advanced research project that has studied the possibilities of inductive charging for electric vehicles – and the results show that this technology for transferring energy via an electromagnetic field has a promising future. Lennart Stegland, Vice President, Electric Propulsion System at Volvo Car Group, says, “Inductive
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Renault Kangoo Van Z.E. proved its firepower at the home of the Gunners by retaining its GreenFleet Awards ‘Electric Vehicle of the Year’ title. Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium was a fitting location for the French brand and last year’s International Van of the Year to land another trophy, which was presented by Fifth Gear presenter Jonny
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Following an extensive testing and development programme, McLaren Automotive has now confirmed the performance figures for the McLaren P1™ in the latest stage in the launch of the groundbreaking model. These figures show that the third model in the range accelerates to 100 km/h (62 mph) in 2.8 seconds, 200 km/h (124 mph) in 6.8
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To be fair, we’ve not put that to the test, but Cadillac claims it’s new ELR interior is so quiet, especially when running on just battery power, that the coupé’s development team took great care to keep it that way when the on-board petrol powered generator turns on for extended range. How did they do
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Volvo Car Group has developed a revolutionary concept for lightweight structural energy storage components that could improve the energy usage of future electrified vehicles. The material, consisting of carbon fibres, nano structured batteries and super capacitors, offers lighter energy storage that requires less space in the car, cost effective structure options and is eco-friendly. As
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We previously wrote about Nissan’s exciting electric Le Mans racer, the ZEOD RC back in June. For the last long eight months, Nissan’s team have been working furiously on the development, design and construction of the electric racecar and today unveiled it at the headquarters of Nissan’s performance arm, Nismo, in Yokohama. In a mere
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Every November since 1896 there has been a road trip from London to Brighton. The distance of 50 miles by today’s standards is laughable with every car on the road being able to exceed this by huge measures. However, over 100 years ago, at the dawn of motoring 50 miles was like driving for an
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