Electric Cars

Former Transport Secretary States “Buy Electric”

October 23, 2011

Auto Express has covered the comments made by Philip Hammond regarding the increasing fuel prices. His educated (cough) suggestion was “People should look to new technologies. Electric cars are very cheap to run and allow motorists to drive guilt free.” Now, as everyone who is a regular reader of this blog will know, I’m not [...]

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Top Gear Latest Series Concluded

August 1, 2011

The final episode of the latest series of Top Gear has played out – as per Jeremy Clarkson’s reference in order to allow us all to watch ‘The X Factor’ drivel without interruption. If you saw it, I’d like to just put out there the question of what you made of the electric vehicle feature. [...]

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Nissan Leaf Nismo RC

June 1, 2011

Not everything from Nissan is ran on petrol or diesel – and not everything is built purely for the road! This is the Nissan LEAF Nismo RC, the racing version of the award winning electric car from the Japanese giant. “There’s a perception among some people that electric vehicles fall on the dull side of [...]

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Peugeot EX1 Shows Off Performance At Nurburgring

May 11, 2011

This is the Peugeot EX1 electric car and it recently set a new track record at Germany’s Nürburgring-Nordschleife circuit. Stéphane Caillet, driver and tuner-technician from the Company’s Research & Development Centre, was at the wheel of the EX1 Concept Car, which covered the circuit’s 20.832 kilometres (12.944 miles), convincingly beating the electric speed record for [...]

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Test Drive The New Citroen Electric Car!

May 4, 2011

As headline sponsor of this year’s Brighton Festival Fringe, Citroën is offering visitors the opportunity to book a test drive in the Citroën C-ZERO – the brand’s new 100% electric city car – during the festival period. The Citroën C-ZERO has been designed to facilitate environmentally considerate day-to-day journeys, with a rapid charge to make [...]

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Citroen Survolt – Electric Dreams

November 18, 2010
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This is Survolt – Citroën’s latest concept car. This one not only looks a little bit special but is an all electric race car. Blimey, anyone would think that this electrickery lark is the way of the future! Well, if it is, we’ll all miss throaty V8 engines, but we will be glad that cars [...]

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An Electric Car From Renault

March 17, 2009

The future, according to Renault, is the electric car.  The French firm are pinning their hopes on an electric vehicle along with a host of new models that will drag them out of the economic quagmire by 2011.  Senior official Stephen Norman has made clear that whilst other projects may be on hold, the electric [...]

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Electric Vehicles To Make A Difference To Climate Change Today

December 16, 2008

Aixam Mega, which is Europe’s largest supplier of ultra-light electric vehicles, (www.mega-vehicles.com) is preparing to boost production for the UK, European and North American markets, following a raft of initiatives by government and private sector groups designed to encourage adoption of electric vehicles to help combat climate change. These initiatives include last week’s announcement in [...]

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The Formula Zero Championship

August 28, 2008

Are you looking for something that will thrill your motorsport senses but won’t kill the environment, unlike the usual vehicle sports?  In that case, the ‘Formula Zero’ championship might be up your street.  The contest pitted teams from five countries against each other, in what was the first ever zero-emissions go kart race. Each team [...]

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The UK’s version of the Tesla

March 7, 2008

There is a little known small car company which will soon be looking to compete with the mighty US Tesla, which has for some time been the super electric car that everyone is talking about. This is about to change with the introduction of the Lightning GT from the Lightning Car Company (LCC) this car [...]

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