Nissan has now opened the order book in the UK for the electric Nissan LEAF. Buyers can sign up online by paying a £257 deposit. We happily admit that we don’t understand the desire to create a C-Segment electric car (certainly not a BEV). We also feel that the creation and marketing of such cars is potentially mis-leading, with […]
Electric Ford Focus to get liquid cooling
Ford are going to manage battery temperature in the electric Focus to improve range and battery longevity. Just like everyone else, Ford is working on battery electric vehicles. And in particular – certainly in the UK – they’re working on an Electric Ford Focus. Which for us is a daft way to go. Electric cars […]
Mitsubishi i-MiEV UK price drop – Battery Wars!
Mitsubishi has slashed the price of their plug-in electric car – the Mitsubishi i-MiEV – in order to compete with the likes of Nissan’s LEAF. With Mitsubishi getting in to mainstream electric cars before any other big car maker with the Mitsubishi i-MiEV, they had a big advantage. They were the first to mass-produce an electric car; […]
Electric Mercedes B-Class for China
The first electric car to come out of the collaboration of Mercedes and BYD will be based on the Mercedes B Class and sell in China under a new brand name. Back in March we reported that Mercedes and Chinese car maker BYD – they of the high-end battery technology – were getting cosy with plans to launch a new car […]
Nissan LEAF EV: Euro sales start – UK in September
The Nissan LEAF EV is going on sale in Portugal and Ireland with the UK following in September. We recently reported that the Nissan Leaf has exceeded all expectations after going on sale in Japan and the US, managing to acquire 19,000 orders in the briefest of time – twice the planned annual rate of […]
Electric Porsche Boxster being developed
Porsche is developing an electric Boxster and will be running threee prototypes to get real world feedback in a programme named Modellregion Elektromobilität It’s not exactly a surprise that Porsche has announced its intention to develop an electric roadster based on the Porsche Boxster, after all – as part of VW – they have access […]
Chevrolet Volt gets 8 year battery warranty
GM are trying to deflect possible obstacles for sales of the Chevy Volt by offering an 8 year warranty on the batteries and their components. You have to admire GM. They’ve come out and answered critics of electric cars – like us – who claim that not only are electric cars pointless in anything other than a […]
Electric Toyota RAV4 and Electric Lexus RX planned
Tesla are building two electric prototypes for Toyota, which we believe are an electric RAV4 and an electric Lexus RX I suppose it is logical once you’ve pinned your colours to the mast on the half-electric hybrid future that a logical extension would be all electric versions. And that seems to be what Toyota are […]
Citroen Survolt hits Le Mans +video
Citroen are taking its pocket-sized electric track car – the Citroen Survolt – to the Le Mans Classic on 10th July. Citroen has been producing some pretty interesting concepts recently, and one of the more recent is the Citroen Survolt we saw at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this year. At the time of the […]
Chevy Volt / Vauxhall Ampera doesn’t work
It’s being reported that GM are re-engineering the Volt/Ampera to be driven by the engine as it’s range extender technology fails in the real world. That’s quite a headline. The technology that’s supposed to be the saviour of GM doesn’t work. Or at least not well enough. It seems that GM are about to re-engineer […]