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First UK Driving Test Completed In Fully Electric Vehicle

February 10, 2013 by Mr Butterscotch Leave a Comment

The UK’s first learner driver to complete the practical driving test in an electric vehicle has passed first time, driving a Vauxhall Ampera. Navdeep Singh, 18, from Hull, successfully drove the cutting edge extended-range electric vehicle and passed the test with flying colours. He learned to drive the award-winning Ampera with RED Driving School, where […]

Filed Under: Daily News, Editorial, Electric Cars Tagged With: Ampera, Driving tests, Electric Cars, Low emissions, New Cars, RED Driving School, UK tests, vauxhall

Is Now A Good Time To Buy A Vauxhall Ampera?

September 2, 2012 by Mr Butterscotch 1 Comment

A gallon of petrol is set to hit £6.16 across the UK, so perhaps now is a good time to switch over to electric. The Vauxhall Ampera makes quite an exciting proposition, given that it has a a 16kWh lithium-ion battery pack feeding a 150PS electric drive unit. The Ampera delivers between 25-50 miles of […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Electric Cars, Featured Posts, New Cars, Technical Tagged With: 150PS, Ampera, Batteries, Electric Cars, EV, Hybrid cars, Lithium-ion, Range extender, vauxhall, Zero emission driving

Do You Think You’re An ecoFLEX Driver?

April 3, 2010 by Mr Butterscotch Leave a Comment

Vauxhall is running a competition to find the greenest driver in Europe. If you happen to be that rather skillful person then you could end up winning a brand new Vauxhall Ampera and be one of the first to drive this unique electric range-extended car. To enter, visit the Vauxhall site here. The first round […]

Filed Under: Articles Elsewhere, Competitions, Events Tagged With: Ampera, ecoFLEX, Environmentally aware driving, Events, green driving, Greenest driver in Europe, vauxhall

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