Renault’s electric go-kart with a roof – the Renault Twizy – will cost from £6,990, plus an extra £40 a month to lease the batteries. What exactly is a Renault Twizy? It’s a fair enough question. Is it a miniature car? No, not really. A beefed-up motorcycle? No, it’s more than that. A tall go-kart with a roof? […]
Top Gear’s Clarkson & May run out of charge in a LEAF & iOn
Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson and James May have been testing the Nissan LEAF and Peugeot iOn in Lincoln, and appear to have run out of power. Top Gear and electric cars don’t really mix. Unless of course they build the electric car themselves, and then you have a world-beating product in the Hammerhead Eagle i-Thrust. But Top […]
Electric Land Rover Defender Revealed
Land Rover in South Africa has worked with battery specialist Axeon to produce an electric Land Rover Defender for safari trips. We do tend to bang on about the only use for electric cars being as expensive runarounds in cities, or as toys to play with for the better off. After all, with useless range and sky-high […]
Peugeot EX1 EV takes on the Nurburgring & sets new electric car record
Peugeot has taken the Peugeut EX1 Concept – and electric sports car – to the Nurburgring and broken the record for an electric car. Peugeot has been busy celebrating its bi-centenary of late (as a company, not just a care maker) and a part of the celebrations of the anniversary was the creation of the […]
BMW boss tells the truth about electric cars. And then has to apologise for doing so.
BMW US CEO Jim O’Donnell told the truth on electric cars – that they will be no good for more than 90% of drivers – but has been forced to retract his views. Really, you do have to ask what kind of barking mad world we live in when the boss of a car company […]
Non-starting Nissan LEAFs to be reprogrammed
Nissan has developed a software patch to fix the problem when the new Nissan LEAF refuses to restart. Owners will be messaged to get the fix. They’re not exactly thick on the ground but, as we reported just a week ago, Nissan has already got problems with the Nissan LEAF, which has been refusing to restart once it’s […]
Nissan LEAF won’t start
It’s being reported that a significant number of Nissan LEAF electric cars are failing to start. The issue has been reported in the US and Japan. Perhaps the most disconcerting thing about stepping in to an EV for the first time – or even a hybrid – is that the car gets turned on rather than being […]
Audi A3 e-tron: Another e-tron joins the flock
Audi has revealed yet another model in its electric e-tron concept range – the Audi A3 e-tron – a pure EV with a 97 mile range. It really shouldn’t be a shock that Audi seems intent on rolling out an electric version of every model in its range – an Audi e-tron for one and all. Well, perhaps […]
Fiat will lose £7k on every electric Fiat 500 EV. Despite tripling the price to over £30k
Fiat / Chrysler boss Sergio Marchionne has revealed that they will lose £7k on every electric Fiat 500 they sell. Despite upping the price to over £30k. I know. We bang on about how impractical electric cars are as a replacement for ICE cars. And it’s true. They only work as a toy for the better off, […]
Nissan LEAF: First UK deliveries
Nissan has delivered the first two Nissan LEAF to customers in the UK today. Waltham Abbey dealer Glyn Hopkin was the delivering dealer. It’s taken a while, but Nissan has finally got the Nissan LEAF on the road in the UK, with the first two customers picking up their cars this morning. Nissan dealers Glyn Hopkin in Waltham Abbey had a […]