Now available on Readly, Magzter & MagCloud. See links below. In the latest AutoVolt magazine, we get an exclusive ride in Electric Classic Cars’ converted Volkswagen Beetle EV. Jonny Smith is this issue’s columnist, talking about his Flux Capacitor Enfield Electric, his appreciation of the new Jaguar i-Pace and his ambition to create a retro […]
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310-mile range, electric power, 0-62mph in 4 seconds – No, this isn’t the latest Tesla specification but instead Jaguar’s first entry into the world of electrification. On November 4th, AutoVolt reported Jaguar were going to reveal a new electric car at the LA Auto Show and they’ve done just that with the new I-PACE concept.
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The Nissan Leaf has been a stalwart of the modern electric car movement. Sales have been solid compared to rivals and the Leaf is still the best selling EV in the world having racked up an impressive 250,000 global sales with 65,000 of these in Europe alone. To celebrate the Leaf’s success and to get
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Jaguar’s big news of 2016 (ignoring other news like F-Pace, Formula E etc) is the company will launch their first ‘electric’ car at the LA Auto Show 2016. Details are scant, to say the least, but following the company’s entrance into Formula E, it makes sense that the big cat enters the world of electrification
Jaguar ‘Electric’ Car will debut at LA Auto Show Read More »
For a while now, Volkswagen has lurked somewhere at the back of the class with their electric vehicle line-up. The e-up! was commonly considered too expensive, while the e-Golf offered little over the Nissan Leaf and suffered from less adopted CCS infrastructure. When launched, it’s 118-mile official NEDC range wasn’t significant enough to put it
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Electric cars with big range are big news, as car makers aim to rid us of the horrid notion of range anxiety, a perceived problem rather than an acutal one. Despite recent battery updates to the Nissan Leaf and BMW i3, it is Renault who can claim to be first to launch their newly updated
250-Mile Range Electric Renault Zoe Arrives in the UK Read More »
ZapGo (www.zapgo.com) an Oxford based technology company has announced a new fast charge technology that will typically charge a mobile device in just five minutes, without the risk of it catching fire. At the heart of this technology is a new type of ‘supercapacitor’ using carbon nano-structures including graphene, materials that are superb conductors, super
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Nissan has launched a new and attractive offer for customers of a used Nissan Leaf, with deposit and monthly payments starting from just £175, on select versions of the electric car. The Leaf continues to be the best selling EV in the UK, with more than 3,000 sales this year alone. As a result the
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Distance records for electric vehicles are nothing new, but generally the main objective is complete the challenge in the fastest time possible. Electric cars represent a new type of challenge, however, by combining a distance record with – critically – the minimum charging time possible. Dr. Jeff Allan and his son, Ben Cottam-Allan from Birmingham
Father and Son Set New Guinness World Record in Electric Car Read More »
A £10 million government investment in electric vehicle charging infrastructure comes as the year-to-date plug-in car registrations total passes the sector’s full-year 2015 total. So far this year, motorists have bought 28,697 electric cars, placing 2016 ahead of last year’s January-December total of 28,188 cars with three months of the year still remaining. Part of
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