Eon is the latest firm to announce ultra fast electric car charging points, planning to install 10,000 new points across Europe and the UK by 2020. Last week we reported the plans by the Ionity consortium of BMW, VW, Mercedes and Ford to roll out a network of ultra fast electric car charging points across the […]
Lamborghini Tease ‘Super Sports Car’ REVEAL – a Hybrid Huracan?
Lamborghini are teasing a ‘Super Sport Car’ Concept ahead of a reveal on Monday 6 November at MIT’s EmTech. A preview of a hybrid Huracan, perhaps? Lamborghini love a limited edition, stupidly expensive car, but the Lamborghini ‘Super Sports Car’ teased ahead of a reveal on Monday 6 November looks to be a concept signposting Lamborghini’s […]
Ionity Europe-wide Electric Car Fast Charge Network – built by BMW, VW, Mercedes and Ford
BMW Group, Daimler AG, Ford and the Volkswagen Group (including Audi and Porsche) are building Ionity, a Europe-wide electric car fast-charging network. We all know electric cars are reaching a tipping point where they finally become a viable alternative to ICE cars, and the announcement of the Ionity Europe-wide electric car fast charging network brings that […]
Toyota WON’T share its ‘600 Mile’ EV battery technology
Toyota may be partnering with Mazda and Denso on a new architecture for electric cars, but it won’t be sharing its new Solid State battery technology for EVs. Toyota is busy working with Mazda and Denso on a new architecture for its electric cars, but despite that co-operation it has no intention of sharing its […]
Toyota to DITCH Diesels – and deliver Hydrogen for the price of Hybrid
Toyota plan to drop diesel engine options from all it new models, and predict that a hydrogen fuel cell car will be as cheap as a hybrid by the early 2020s. You might be forgiven for thinking that Toyota has never really had time for diesel engine technology, and in many ways you’d be right. […]
Honda Sports EV Concept REVEALED – a sports car take on Honda’s appealing Urban EV
The Honda Sports EV has been revealed at the Tokyo Motor Show, and it’s a two-seat sporty take on the Urban EV Concept Honda revealed at Frankfurt. There is a school of thought in the industry that mainstream cars will become nothing more than mobile white goods once the revolution is won and all cars […]
Nissan LEAF goes SUV with the electric iMX Concept at Tokyo
The Nissan iMX Zero-Emission Concept arrives at the Tokyo Motor Show previewing an SUV take on the LEAF, complete with 375 mile range. It’s only a month since the new Nissan LEAF was revealed – as the LEAF matures in to a more cohesive mainstream car – and now we get the next direction for […]
Toshiba’s new EV Battery promises 200 miles from 6 MINUTE charge – but at what cost?
Toshiba has announced the development of a new battery technology for Electric Cars, promising a range of 200 miles from a six minute charge. Improvements in battery technology for electric cars have been, at best, incremental in the last decade, despite the huge investments made in delivering new battery technology to make EVs a sensible […]
Shell opens its FIRST electric car charging points in the UK – but the price is STEEP
Shell has opened its first electric car charging points at forecourts in London, Surrey and Derby, with many more planned. But the cost is rather steep. As we said when we reported on Motor Fuel Group’s EV charging plans at their 400 UK fuel stations, petrol stations need to add the ability to charge electric […]
Porsche Cayman E-Volution Prototype ELECTRIFIES the Cayman to 62mph in 3.3 seconds
A Porsche Cayman E-Volution Prototype has appeared at the at the Electric Vehicle Symposium in Stuttgart pointing at Porsche’s electric future. The Porsche Mission-E electric sports saloon is only just around the corner, but it’s starting to look like Porsche are further down the line withy electric versions of their sports cars than we perhaps realised. Although […]