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Nissan LEAF EV: Euro sales start – UK in September

CarsUK — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:21:14 +0000

The Nissan LEAF EV is going on sale in Portugal and Ireland with the UK following in September. We recently reported that the Nissan Leaf has exceeded all expectations after going on sale in Japan and the US, managing to acquire 19,000 orders in the briefest of time – twice the planned annual rate of [...]

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Nissan LEAF EV: Euro sales start – UK in September

UK Electric Car Subsidy: £5k for the first 8,600

CarsUK — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:08:46 +0000

The coalition Government are going to honour the subsidy commitment on electric cars. But only for the first 8,600. We expected more sanity from the coalition Government on all things motoring – especially after Transport Secretary Philip Hammond decreed the war on motorists to be over. And we also hoped for common sense all round on all [...]

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UK Electric Car Subsidy: £5k for the first 8,600

Electric Porsche Boxster being developed

CarsUK — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:26:26 +0000

Porsche is developing an electric Boxster and will be running threee prototypes to get real world feedback in a programme named Modellregion Elektromobilität It’s not exactly a surprise that Porsche has announced its intention to develop an electric roadster based on the Porsche Boxster, after all – as part of VW – they have access [...]

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Electric Porsche Boxster being developed

Chevrolet Volt gets 8 year battery warranty

CarsUK — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:37:20 +0000

GM are trying to deflect possible obstacles for sales of the Chevy Volt by offering an 8 year warranty on the batteries and their components. You have to admire GM. They’ve come out and answered critics of electric cars – like us – who claim that not only are electric cars pointless in anything other than a [...]

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Chevrolet Volt gets 8 year battery warranty

Electric Toyota RAV4 and Electric Lexus RX planned

CarsUK — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:00:28 +0000

Tesla are building two electric prototypes for Toyota, which we believe are an electric RAV4 and an electric Lexus RX I suppose it is logical once you’ve pinned your colours to the mast on the half-electric hybrid future that a logical extension would be all electric versions. And that seems to be what Toyota are [...]

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Electric Toyota RAV4 and Electric Lexus RX planned

Citroen Survolt hits Le Mans +video

CarsUK — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:07:41 +0000

Citroen are taking its pocket-sized electric track car – the Citroen Survolt – to the Le Mans Classic on 10th July. Citroen has been producing some pretty interesting concepts recently, and one of the more recent is the Citroen Survolt we saw at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this year. At the time of the [...]

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Chevy Volt / Vauxhall Ampera doesn’t work

CarsUK — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:12:48 +0000

It’s being reported that GM are re-engineering the Volt/Ampera to be driven by the engine as it’s range extender technology fails in the real world. That’s quite a headline. The technology that’s supposed to be the saviour of GM doesn’t work. Or at least not well enough. It seems that GM are about to re-engineer [...]

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Chevy Volt / Vauxhall Ampera doesn’t work

Mercedes SLS AMG E-Cell – First prototype

CarsUK — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:45:48 +0000

Mercedes has revealed the first running prototype of its electric Gullwing Supercar – the Mercedes SLS AMG E-Cell - resplendent in its tennis-ball yellow paint job. We called it the Mercedes SLS AMG eDrive when we first talked about an electric SLS Gullwing last year. Although to be fair that’s what Mercedes called it when they gave [...]

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Mercedes SLS AMG E-Cell – First prototype

Toyota Prius plug-in hits UK

CarsUK — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:27:23 +0000

Toyota are trialing 20 Prius plug-in hybrids in London in conjunction with EDF energy to assess real world usage. The next step in the Toyota Prius story is the plug-in Prius, which adds some Lithium-Ion batteries to the mix and the ability to plug the Prius in to the mains to get a usable kick-start to your day’s [...]

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Report: Electric cars will NEVER be a viable alternative

CarsUK — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:36:01 +0000

E&T Magazine – the magazine of the Institution of Engineering and Technology – has produced a report saying electric cars will NEVER be a viable alternative. Let’s clarify that headline very slightly. Electric cars will never be a viable alternative to conventional cars with an internal combustion engine. That is the finding of a report [...]

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Report: Electric cars will NEVER be a viable alternative

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