In another moan about the Top Gear Episode featuring the Tesla Roadster, Elon Musk says the publicity wrecked UK Tesla sales. The moans by Tesla about the Top Gear episode where Jeremy Clarkson tested Tesla’s electric Lotus have rumbled on all year. First we had Tesla suing Top Gear in the British Courts, then Top Gear producer Andy […]
Electric SEAT Altea & plug-in SEAT Leon hybrid revealed
SEAT has revealed a plug-in hybrid – the SEAT Leon TwinDrive Ecomotive – and an EV – the SEAT Altea XL Electric Ecomotive. Seat may have revealed a pair of cars with ‘eco’ powerplants – the Leon TwinDrive Ecomotive and the Altea XL Electric Ecomotive – but they’re not coming to a showroom near you. Well, not before […]
Toyota develops 600 mile battery for electric cars
Toyota says it has developed a new battery for electric cars that can give a 600 mile range and cost up to 90 per cent less than current battery technology. Many think our stance on electric cars is Luddite. But it’s not. In fact, if anything, it’s quite the opposite. The origins of Luddite are […]
Electric Ford Focus goes on sale in U.S. at $40k
Ford has announced that the electric Focus BEV is now available to order at almost $40,000 – twice the price of an entry-level Ford Focus. One thing’s for sure. No one is going to buy an electric Ford Focus on price. Ford has announced that the all electric BEV Focus is now available to order […]
Audi A1 e-tron Wankel range-extender EV trial begins
Audi has begun a trial programme in Munich for the A1 e-tron EV with the Wankel powered range extender engine. 20 A1 e-trons are taking part in the ‘Electric Mobility in Munich’ project. If car makers are going to foist electric cars on us, the least they can do is make them as useful as the limited technology permits. […]
Nissan LEAF EV: 15,000 sold worldwide, but UK hasn’t fallen for electric cars
Carlos Ghosn – Nissan Renault boss – has revealed that Nissan has sold 15,000 LEAF EVs. But in the UK only 100 electric cars were sold in September. As electric cars go, the Nissan LEAF is one of the best. It looks like a proper car – even if it’s not exactly drop dead gorgeous – […]
New Electric DeLorean revealed
The DeLorean Motor Company – keepers of John DeLorean’s supercar dream – has revealed a new electric DeLorean (EV) it plans to launch in 2013. John DeLorean’s efforts to revive the Northern Irish economy by building the DeLorean DMC-12 with British taxpayers money ended in failure. But now the DeLorean Motor Company plans an electric version of the DeLorean […]
Electric Cars are 5 years away – said Ford in 1966
Ford Motor Company announced in 1966 that it had made a breakthrough in battery technology and Electric Cars would be with us in five years. It’s 1966 and the Ford Cortina MK I (pictured above) is selling like hot cakes, a sure indicator of a prosperous new age, and just about to be replaced by the MK II Cortina. […]
Microcab H2EV hydrogen Fuel Cell car to launch this week.
A British car maker – Microcab – will launch its new hydrogen fuel cell powered H2EV car later this week. Just last week we had the opening of the first public hydrogen filling station in the UK at Honda;s plant in Swindon, and now we get the launch of a new, British built, hydrogen fuel […]
New survey says not a single UK motorist plans to buy an electric car
A new survey of 12,000 UK motorists by Trend Tracker finds not a single motorist is planning on buying an electric car. Our stance on the futility of pursuing electric cars (EV) as a replacement for ICE cars is well known, but it seems that the great British motoring public feel exactly the same. A […]