Our much anticipated latest issue is finally here. Our cover star once again is a stunning Jaguar electric car, but this time it’s the turn of the I-Pace – a car that is set to revolutionise the future of Jaguar, with its blend of astonishing electric power, luxury and near-300 mile range. Speaking of pioneers, […]
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Autovolt gained exclusive access to Jaguar’s amazing timeless beauty; the E-Type Zero. This modern and electric E-Type is no ordinary classic, as Beth Lily Georgiou finds out. Tim Hannig, Director at Jaguar Classic, spills the beans on why the project was called Marmite and then Dylan. Autovolt asks the big question: Is this the end
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Dyson is looking to employ a further 300 people in “automotive” positions, as it works towards developing its first electric vehicle that the company says it has been working on for the last three years, at its Malmesbury campus. This year, the already 400-strong automotive team will move to a new state-of-the-art building at the
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Jaguar has revealed pricing, a near-300-mile range and final production specification for its first electric vehicle; the I-Pace. The Jaguar I-Pace electric vehicle will be available to order starting today, 1st March, in S, SE and HSE derivatives alongside a First Edition priced from £63,495 OTR. Jaguar will initially only offer a liquid-cooled 90kWh lithium-ion
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It’s here! The new 2018 Nissan Leaf has finally arrived and we head to Tenerife to find out whether Nissan’s still at the head of the game. Plus, we’ve an exclusive feature on Jaguar’s first electric car, the hotly anticipated I-Pace, where we expose its secrets. In review we have the handsome new luxury saloon
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Another week goes by with the Optima PHEV and in many ways, testament to the car is the fact there’s precious little to report. The car just keeps on rewarding me with nothing exciting to say. Had this been any lesser car, there might have been mention of the odd gripe – and don’t get
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Best Western Great Britain is leading the hospitality industry’s charge to accommodate more electric cars and says it costs less than the freshly squeezed orange juice served at breakfast to charge a guest’s car overnight. Thirty of its 250 sites now offer electric charging points for customers to use free of charge and interest has
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Tusker, one of the UK’s leading car benefit companies, recently installed a substantial number of Rolec’s AutoCharge electric vehicle charging pedestals at its Watford HQ. Each of the AutoCharge pedestals were equipped with Rolec’s EV Charge Online pay-to-charge system, allowing EV drivers to use their mobile phone to pay to charge using Visa, Mastercard, American
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Nissan has announced it has entered into an agreement with GSR Capital (GSR), a private investment fund, for the sale of Nissan’s electric battery operations and production facilities to GSR. The sale and purchase agreement covers Nissan’s battery subsidiary, Automotive Energy Supply Corporation (AESC), as well as battery manufacturing operations in Smyrna, Tennessee, owned by
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On a particularly cold summer evening, I decided to put the electric range of the Kia Optima PHEV (Optima Prime) to the test. It has always stated 31-miles on the display, although I’ve managed to eke 32-miles with relative ease after driving carefully and at town speeds up to 30mph. In traffic or urban driving
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