The Skoda Enyaq iV Founders Edition is revealed as a range-topping Enyaq, a limited run of 50 units for the UK with prices from £46,725. The electric Skoda Enyaq iV – Skoda’s take on the Volkswagen ID.4 – only went on sale in the UK in March, so it seems a bit early to deliver […]
Tiny electric Citroen Ami IS coming to the UK
The Citroen Ami Quadricycle, Citroen’s vision for electric urban transport, is to be sold in the UK after all. Expected to start at around £6k. At the start of 2020, just before Covid turned the world properly upside down, Citroen revealed their answer to future urban mobility with the Citroen Ami – a production version […]
Lotus reveals new lightweight EV Platform for electric Lotus sports cars
Lotus reveals a new lightweight platform for its future electric sports cars, with variable sizes and power up to 870bhp. The Lotus lightweight mantra is key to its cars performance and handling, but with cars moving from ICE to EV it’s going to be a difficult path for Lotus to tread as a regular EV’s […]
Electric Aston Martin DB5 Junior No Time To Die Edition – a £108k ‘Toy’ Bond DB5
The Little Car Company delivers an electric Aston Martin DB5 Junior No Time To Die Edition, a 2/3rd scale DB5 costing £108,000. When the oldies at Cars UK Towers were small, the James Bond Aston Martin DB5, complete with multiple gadgets, was a small Corgi toy. But things have moved on a bit since then. […]
Hyundai delays ELECTRIC Ioniq 6 debut to make it look better and go further
The arrival of Hyundai’s next electric car – the Ioniq 6 – is delayed to make design tweaks and add range with a bigger battery. Hyundai’s electric car odyssey has moved on from the electrification of ICE cars – like the Hyundai Kona EV – to embrace EVs designed from the off as electric cars, […]
1,500 new EV rapid charge points at 150 sites from Osprey Charging by 2025
Osprey Charging is installing 150 rapid charge hubs for electric cars by 2025, with 1,500 points delivering 150-175kW charging. We’re constantly being told we need millions more EV charging points to cope with the number of electric cars that will hit the roads in the next decade. Although most of those will need to be […]
Electric Polestar 3 SUV will have MORE power than the next-gen electric Volvo XC90
The electric Polestar 3 SUV – due in 2022 – will have more power than the next-generation Volvo XC90 and just two rows of seats. We know Polestar – now independent from Volvo – is planning to reveal the Polestar 3 electric SUV in 2022 because they’ve already started teasing it. We also know it […]
Electric Mercedes EQS 450+ AMG Line costs £100,000 – and that’s just the start
The electric Mercedes EQS 450+ goes on sale in the UK with prices starting at £99,995, and much more if you want more goodies. The electric Mercedes EQS arrived as a concept in 2019, and earlier this year it morphed into the production version with most of what the concept promised fully intact. And now […]
Polestar Precept (Polestar 4) top priority for Polestar’s expanding UK R&D
Volvo’s Polestar brand is expanding its UK R&D with the top priority being the development of the Polestar Precept into the Polestar 4. Polestar arrived as a spin-off brand from Volvo with the limited-run hybrid Polestar 1 a halo offering, followed by the Polestar 2, an EV aimed directly at Tesla’s Model 3. In the […]
Hyundai TEASES Ioniq 7 electric SUV (and the Ioniq 6)
Hyundai teases the new Ioniq 6, based on the Prophecy Concept, and the electric Ioniq 7 SUV alongside the recently arrived Ioniq 5. Hyundai appears to have hit the bullseye with its electric Ioniq 5, delivering a great-looking retro-design and very able electric platform, with decent performance and good range. But the Ioniq 5 is […]