Ford has shown the Ford Focus Electric at the CES (Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Due to launch late 2011 in US and 2012 in Europe We expected Ford to debut the electric version of the new Focus at the Detroit Motor Show next week until they did the whole ‘Electric Focus Tease‘ thing […]
Mitsubishi i-MiEV: Lease & finance costs announced
Mitsubishi has released costs for leasing, buying and contract hire on the electric Mitsubishi i-MiEV, which becomes eligible for the £5k electric car subsidy this week. We had to run some sort of story on electric cars this week as the UK government’s misguided £5k subsidy to makers of electric cars kicks in as the New Year arrives. Mind you, […]
Ford Focus Electric tease begins
Ford teases the release of new information about the electric Ford Focus at the International CES in Las Vegas on its Facebook page. Ford has promised that there will be an electric version of the 2011 Ford Focus by 2012. Which we’ve gone on record as saying is a daft idea. Why would you want an electric […]
Plug-In Car Grant: Eligible cars revealed
Government announces the list of cars eligible for the £5,000 electric vehicle subsidy. But there’s only one you can actually buy – the Mitsubishi i-MiEV. We’re almost in to the New Year, and the contentious government subsidy for buyers of plug-in, low CO2 emission cars is due to kick in from 1st January 2011. The […]
Audi A1 e-tron by 2014
It looks as if Audi are planning to bring the Audi A1 e-tron – a range-extender, plug in hybrid with single-pot Wankel motor – to market by 2014. As anyone who follows motors shows will know, Audi has been busy churning out electric Audis under the e-tron moniker for the last year or so. We kicked off with the Audi R8 […]
Ecotricity Nemesis: The UK Tesla
Ecotricity, makers of wind turbines and eco-electricity, has created Ecotricity Nemesis, a Lotus-based electric car – just like the Tesla Roadster Dale Vince has built Ecotricity – an environmentally-friendly electricity generating company – from nothing to an annual investment of £25 million in wind energy. Which casual readers here would think we would find appalling. But far from […]
Nissan LEAF: Green Car of the Year 2010
The Nissan LEAF has been named Green Car of the Year 2010, despite not even being on sale. Barking. I think we must be stupid. The Nissan LEAF was listed as a finalist for the 2011 European Car of the Year, which we found outstandingly peculiar as the LEAF is still not a production car. Perhaps we […]
Toyota RAV4 EV: Powered by Tesla – the tease
Toyota are teasing an electric RAV4 put together by Tesla – the Toyota RAV4 EV: Powered by Tesla – ahead of a Los Angeles Motor Show reveal. Back in May we reported that Toyota had fished down the back of the sofa for some loose change (£35 million – two days profits) and had thrown […]
Mitsubishi i-Miev: The Fat-Boy version for the US
Mitsubishi is making their electric city car – the Mitsubishi i-Miev – quite a bit bigger to cater for the US market. It’s a big enough problem getting the UK and Europe to buy in to the idea of a very small city car, much less one powered by an electric motor with all the power of a glorified […]
Honda: Electric cars DO have a future
Honda boss Takanobu Ito has revealed that Honda now see a future for EV and hybrids, and will show a plug-in hybrid and an EV at the LA Motor Show. In some ways Honda has been the biggest naysayer of all the car makers when it comes to electric cars. Under the leadership of Takeo […]