In this video entitled “The streets sound different. e-mobility by Volkswagen.” Volkswagen have tried to add sound to a so-called silent vehicle by putting a vocalist and beatbox artist, Fatih Sahin, with a set of speakers and microphone to give a ‘conventional’ soundtrack to the electric e-up!. As is often stated by both marketing teams […]
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The lead owner of an NBA basketball team, the Boston Celtics, has announced that together with his Causeway Media Partners they will be investing multi-millions in Formula E. Wyc Grousbeck, the lead owner, will resultantly be on the Board of Directors at Formula E Holdings the official series promoters for the FIA Formula E Championship
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Prime Minister of Malaysia, The Honourable Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib Tun Razak, has today officially launched the FIA Formula E Championship in Putrajaya and witnessed the signing of the City Agreement between Tan Sri Aseh Bin Haji Che Mat for the city of Putrajaya and Dato’ Sri Johann Young, to officially host the second Formula
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Selling their 3,000th LEAF electric vehicle (EV), Nissan has marked itself as the electric car leader in the UK. The car maker hit the landmark in November when a total of 141 new British-built LEAFs were registered at dealerships across the country. Although the figures are very low for a production car, they do at
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Red Bull, BT Fleet, Birmingham City Council and Iceland are just four of 100 businesses taking part in the Energy Saving Trust’s Plugged-in Fleets Initiative. The programme offers free support and advice to help organisations understand if they can benefit from electric vehicles. Each participating fleet receives 3 days of free consultancy and a tailored report
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Nissan Europe commissioned Master Perfumer and Aroma Academy Scientist Dr. George Dodd to create a scent of the future – a smell that may encompass emotions of a utopian world where electric; zero-emission (ZE) cars are the only vehicles and the nature’s balance has returned. The result is an amusing but quite incredible take on
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It’s radical, revolutionary, racy and… a Renault. The distinctive Renault Twizy has helped change public opinion on the future of electric vehicles. To explain how this remarkable machine came about, Renault has produced a short video, which can be seen on here. Titled, “The uncensored story of a disruptive innovation” the film goes behind the
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Venturi Automobiles today (9 December) announced a joint venture with award-winning actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio to enter a team in the new FIA Formula E Championship – the world’s first fully-electric race series beginning in September 2014. The announcement also means the previously released press release by Bluebird that they would enter the inaugural
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After the weekend, allowing hype and opinions to have been expressed nationwide, we feel it’s worth taking a look at the pros and cons of the Autumn Statement made by George Osborne last Thursday the 5th December. Electric vehicles The Government is charging up its plans to increase public sector fleet penetration of electric vehicles
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Saab Cars live again in two guises. Firstly, a reborn 9-3 that stopped production a few years ago but will re-enter into production only as a top spec Aero model featuring a petrol-turbo engine, the likes of which made Saab famous in the first place. Secondly, and more interestingly to AutoVolt readers, are plans to
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