Nissan has appointed actor Margot Robbie as the new face of Nissan Electric Cars, and have sent her racing round Monaco in the BladeGlider EV to celebrate. Do Nissan electric cars need a face? It seems they do. Nissan has announced that the delectable Margot Robbie – she of The Wolf of Wall Street and Suicide […]
Volvo EV with up to 100kWh by 2019 CONFIRMED as Volvo make EVs the future
Volvo will deliver its first full battery electric vehicle by 2019 – with up to 100kWh of battery power – as it turns to electrification for its future. We’ve already had clear signs that Volvo think electrification of cars is the future, with the assertion the upcoming T5 Twin Engine plug-in will sign the death […]
Kia Niro range to be expanded with an ELECTRIC Niro, it seems
The Kia Niro Hybrid SUV / Crossover looks set to be an expanding range, with an electric Niro EV looking to be firmly on the cards. It’s a year since the Kia Niro was revealed as Kia’s battle wagon in the hybrid Crossover/SUV sector, but so far it’s a lone model range. There have been rumours […]
Volvo P5 to P10 and V20 and V30 trademark filing points at EVs and new models
Volvo has been filing trademark applications in the US and Europe, with P5 to P10 suggesting EVs and V20 and V30 new compact hatches. If you know Volvos, you know that a Volvo with a ‘T’ model suffix – like XC90 T6 – denotes a petrol engine under the bonnet, and if it has a ‘D’ […]
Electric Car Battery prices set to DROP a further 40% in 2017
Electric Car battery prices look set to drop by a further 40% in 2017 according to Morgan Stanley, making EVs cost-competitive with ICE cars. When electric cars first started to reappear in car showrooms, with the Nissan LEAF leading the charge, the huge cost of the batteries to power the EVs meant prices were huge […]
Tesla Supercharger prices set at £0.20 per kilowatt hour in the UK
Tesla has revealed it will charge new owners of Tesla’s – Model S, Model X and Model 3 – £0.20 per kilowatt hour to use Tesla’s Supercharger network. Tesla may have stretched the cut-off point for its UK price increase and free Supercharger access, but the deadline is tomorrow. And that means a price rise of […]
Ford bets BIG on electric cars – from hybrid Mustang to wireless charging
Ford is diving in to vehicle electrification with plans for everything from a hybrid Mustang and plug-in Transit to wireless charging by 2020. We are getting very close to the tipping point for car electrification, but not because the technology – particularly the battery technology – has matured to where it’s a no-brainer, but more […]
Tesla UK Price increase delayed until 15 January 2017
Tesla has delayed the planned UK price rise of 5% due on 1 January 2017 by two weeks, citing ‘exceptionally high demand’ as the reason. The Brexit referendum in the summer has seen the value of Sterling fall, and that means price increases for imported goods are inevitable. Which is why Tesla announced a 5% […]
Extortionate electric car charging costs to be reined in by government
The government is planning to attack excessive charges for electric car charging as current public charging can cost as much as ICE refuelling. When Ecotricity announced it was going to charge £6 for 30 minutes of electric car charge at its charging stations up and down the UK’s motorways, we did suggest if they were […]
BMW 530e iPerformance – BMW’s 5-Series Plug-in Hybrid – priced from £43,985
[nggallery id=2420 template=customlinks] The BMW 530e iPerformance 5-Series plug-in hybrid goes on sale in the UK from £43,985 offering low BIK and an EV range of 29 miles. It was only yesterday that we got details on the BMW M550i as BMW’s new 5-Series range rolls out, and now we get details and prices for the […]