Swiss car design studio Rinsspeed are taking a small electric car concept to the Geneva Motor Show next month – the Rinspeed UC? Rinspeed are a Swiss car designer studio and, as you would expect on their home turf, they usually churn out a concept for the Geneva Motor Show. And this year is no […]
Better Place Electric Car visitor centre opens
Better Place – pioneers of battery swap technology for electric cars – have opened a visitor centre in Israel to demonstrate their system and its progress. Last October we wrote about a start-up company in Israel – Better Place – that had a new way forward for electric cars by taking the purchase of battery […]
Tesla Roadster: RHD hits the UK – Tesla Roadster production to end in 2011
Tesla has announced the launch of a RHD Tesla Roadster, and it has been revealed that the Tesla Roadster will end production in 2011. A right hand drive Tesla Roadster is something that should help Tesla shift more cars in the UK – and other RHD markets as well – so it’s welcome news that […]
MINI E – the testers are ‘Mostly Happy’
BMW are reporting that the lessees of the MINI E are reporting a positive response and are ‘Mostly Happy’ with the electric MINI. I know, we’ve run stories on how the lessees of the MINI Es running around at their expense to evaluate the car for BMW have had more than a gripe or two about the […]
BYD E6 – Detroit show and going to America
Chinese car maker BYD has shown the BYD E6 electric car at the Detroit Motor Show and plans to launch it in the US in 2010. BYD is a Chinese car maker very much on the up. They’ve gone from building no cars at all in 2001 to the fourth biggest car maker in China […]
Electric BMW 1 Series Concept ActiveE Revealed
BMW has released details of the BMW 1-Series ActiveE Concept, an electric 1 Series which will be shown at the Detroit Motor Show in January 2010. BMW are ramping up their foray in to electric cars with the reveal of the BMW 1 Series Concept ActiveE which will show at the Detroit Motor Show in […]
Toyota Plug-In Hybrid on sale in 2011
Toyota has revealed it will begin to sell Plug-In Hybrid cars in 2011, although not necessarily the Prius Plug-In. Back in September Toyota released details of the Plug-In Prius which – as you would have guessed from the name – adds a plug-in facility to the Prius to allow owners to charge the Prius’ batteries […]
Mitusbishi MiEV starts UK Trials
The Mitsubishi MiEV Electric City car is starting a 12 month public trial today in the West Midlands. There seems to be a perception that we at Cars UK Towers are anti electric cars. We’re not. What we’re against is the mad pseudo-science that tries to declare electric cars as zero emission and the saviour of […]
Electric Porsche Cayenne – the eRuf Stormster
Porsche tuners Ruf have produced an electric Porsche Cayenne – the Cayenne eRuf Stormster – which will be produced in limited numbers. We know that Porche will produce a hybrid Cayenne when the next generation Cayenne hits the roads next year (and may even churn one out in the current shape before that). And it’s […]
Electric Car Company Tax Incentives Announced
Chancellor Alistair Darling has announced a zero benefit in kind rate for electric company cars. We already have the promise of a chunk of money for the Government at some point – maybe – if you feel inclined to buy an electric car. And in a show of fiddling while Rome is burning, Chancellor Alistair Darling […]