Fancy a Lexus hybrid? Their summer sale is underway for both private and business customers wishing to purchase a new car on finance. The offers apply to all new CT 200h, IS 300h, GS 300h and GS 450h models and the RX 450h F Sport, giving customers an exceptional breadth of choice across Lexus’s range […]
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AutoVolt drove the new plug-in hybrid Golf GTE in our latest issue. We were impressed by its ability to perform as both an electric car and a sports car when desired. Did we ever feel it lacked power? No. However, someone at Volkswagen obviously did. Our latest issue is available here. As a concept car,
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The new May-June AutoVolt includes the fascinating story of the Audi A2, its history and the parallels that may be drawn between it and the excellent BMW i3 electric car. Following this, we’ve interviewed Alex Calnan from Electric Blue. An electric taxi company with a big difference, Electric Blue aim to install a rapid charge
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The UK has once again beaten CO2 emissions targets, with the average new car in 2014 posting CO2 emissions 4.2% below this year’s EU-wide target of 130g/km, according to a Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) report published today. The annual SMMT New Car CO2 Report 2015 reveals that carbon tailpipe emissions have fallen
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British drivers have voted electric and hybrid cars the best to own, according to Driver Power 2015. This year’s car owner survey features a hybrid car in first place and two electric vehicles in its top ten for the first time ever. The survey, run by Britain’s popular website and weekly magazine, Auto Express, covers
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Feast your eyes on the ultimate 308. PEUGEOT has unveiled a stunning new version of the award-winning compact family hatchback – with a combined 500bhp and four-wheel drive. The press release below goes some way to show off what the PEUGEOT engineers have been able to achieve and the headline figures are 500+ bhp with
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If you were interested in the recent tyre concepts by Goodyear, which provided a rather radical energy generation via the tyres themselves, you’ll be pleased to see Goodyear are not the only tyre maker working on special tyre types for the EV and hybrid world. A novel tyre that features different tread areas could point
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A twofold quantity of hybrid energy, fundamentally revised aerodynamics, the next step in lightweight design and a lot of detailed work characterise the fifth generation of the Audi R18. Jörg Zander, Audi Sport’s new Head of Engineering said, “The possibilities of the revolutionary regulations that have been in effect for LMP sports cars since 2014
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The all new March-April 2015 AutoVolt is now available! Main feature articles in this issue are: COVER STORY: #ChallengeZOE We challenge a bus between Oxford and Cambridge in a Renault ZOE. Find out which one comes out on top. INTERVIEW: Dale Vince One-on-one with Dale Vince, the green energy guru and CEO of Ecotricity. FEATURE:
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In a dramatic real world test of the Range Rover Sport Hybrid’s capability, the car towed the 13.1m long Airstream through some of the worst winter weather Scandinavia has experienced in living memory. Gales, record snow depths and freak icy road conditions tested crew, car and trailer to the extreme. More European Airstream owners choose
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