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Motoyama Joins Nissan’s ZEOD RC Electric Le Mans Team

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Three-time Japanese Super GT champion Satoshi Motoyama will join Nissan GT Academy winners Lucas Ordóñez and Wolfgang Reip on the driver line-up for the revolutionary electric Nissan ZEOD RC at this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours. Motoyama will make his fourth Le Mans start aboard the Nissan racer which combines a 300 horsepower electric powertrain with a 400 horsepower/40 kilogram/1.5 liter turbocharged petrol engine. The Japanese ace completed his first […]

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(Left to right) Ben Bronfman, Principal of Business Development at Global Thermostat, with Alejandro Agag, CEO of Formula E

Global Thermostat Partners with FIA Formula E to Reduce the Championships CO2 Emissions

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Organisers of the FIA Formula E Championship have today announced a new partnership with leading carbon capture company Global Thermostat to significantly reduce the CO2 emissions generated by the series and to jointly promote sustainable technologies. Beginning this September in Beijing, Formula E is the FIA’s global motorsport championship featuring fully- electric open-wheel cars racing

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POLAR instant app

New POLAR App Does Away with RFID Cards for EV Charging

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Chargemaster is launching a new smartphone app to change the way drivers charge their electric vehicles. The POLAR Instant app, which is available now on the Apple iPhone and will be coming to Android smartphones from early May, provides EV drivers with instant access to the UK’s largest publicly available network of charging points, without the need

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Hyundai Partners with HyFIVE EU Initiative to Fuel Hydrogen-Powered Vehicles

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Hyundai aims to deliver 75 units of its pioneering hydrogen-powered ix35 Fuel Cell as part of the largest ever pan-European fuel-cell passenger car project. The Hydrogen For Innovative Vehicles (HyFIVE) project, funded by the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking, will see deliveries made in Bolzano, Copenhagen, Innsbruck, London, Munich and Stuttgart. President of Hyundai

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The street of the future – neighbours in Marlow test the impact of a cluster of 9 electric vehicles on the local electricity grid

My Electric Avenue Creates the UK’s First Electric Car ‘Street of the Future’

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The UK’s first road of electric cars – ‘the street of the future’ – has been created in Marlow by the ground-breaking ‘My Electric Avenue’ project. Nine neighbours are now receiving delivery of their all-electric Nissan LEAFs to use over 18 months in order to test a new technology that will monitor and control the

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Honda FCX Clarity

Honda Joins £31M Pan-European Project to Develop Hydrogen Cars

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Honda and other leading motor manufacturers, hydrogen fuel suppliers and energy consultancies from around the globe met in London this week to sign a £31m agreement coordinated by the Mayor of London’s Office, to develop and demonstrate  technology and infrastructure that will help fuel cell electric vehicles to become a viable and environmentally friendly option

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