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Audi e-Tron launch now in 2012 – Torque figures rubbished

December 6, 2009 By Cars UK

Audi has revealed that the electric e-Tron will now launch in late 2012, and we reveal the torque figures quoted for the e-Tron are rubbish. Audi’s electric R8 – the Audi e-Tron – was unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show this year and has just had its US debut at the Los Angeles Motor Show. […]

Filed Under: Audi e-Tron, Audi News, Los Angeles 2009, Supercar News Tagged With: Electric Cars

Top Gear builds Electric Car

November 22, 2009 By Cars UK

Episode 2 of the latest Top Gear series airs tonight with the boys building an electric TVR and driving the Audi R8 V10 and Corvette ZR-1. Update: As Top Gear gave their electric car to Autocar to test (they should have given it to Cars UK!), we thought we’d update this post with the Autocar […]

Filed Under: Audi News, Audi R8 V10, Top Gear Tagged With: Electric Cars, James May, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond

Electric cars will speed up Climate Change – Press Release

November 12, 2009 By Cars UK

Switching to electric cars could speed climate change The idea that a wholesale switch to electric cars would automatically reduce CO2 emissions and dependence on oil is one of a number of myths dispelled by a major new report conducted on behalf of the Environmental Transport Association (ETA). The report found that whilst there were […]

Filed Under: Uncategorised Tagged With: Eco Cars, Electric Cars

Citroen C-Zero debuts

November 10, 2009 By Cars UK

Citroen has revealed their version of the Mitsubishi M-iEV electric city car – the Citroen C-Zero – which will launch at the end of 2010. That Mitsubishi M-iEV certainly gets around. Apart from Mitsubishi’s own version we’ve already had Peugeot’s iON version of the M-iEV electric car and now we get the Citroen C-Zero. The […]

Filed Under: Citroen News Tagged With: Eco Cars, Electric Cars

Gordon Murray’s T27 Electric Car

November 8, 2009 By Cars UK

Gordon Murray is developing an electric version of his T25 City Car in collaboration with Zytec which will utilise the iStream process of manufacture. Back in March we reported on a new small car concept from Gordon Murray Design – the T25 – which GMD said was a new way forward in small cars. A […]

Filed Under: GMD News Tagged With: Electric Cars, Gordon Murray, iStream

Chrysler drops Electric Cars

November 7, 2009 By Cars UK

Chrysler has all but dropped its plans to get 500,000 electric cars on the road by 2013 in its Five Year Plan. Over the last year or two Chrysler has banged on about their plans to release a raft of electric cars. In fact, they even used their electric car plans as part of the […]

Filed Under: Chrysler News, Fiat News Tagged With: Eco Cars, Electric Cars, Hybrid Cars, Sergio Marchionne

Generation Y – the new face of the car buyer

November 1, 2009 By Cars UK

It’s the Generation Y car buyers that are driving the change to hybrids and electrics, not GEN X or the baby boomers. The car landscape is changing. Dramatically. Big, thirsty V8, V10 and V12 engines are starting to feel as if they’re from another age. They’ll survive, of course they will. But big, powerful performance […]

Filed Under: Car News Tagged With: Eco Cars, Electric Cars, Hybrid Cars

Hybrid Cars are like Mermaids: Carlos Ghosn

October 29, 2009 By Cars UK

Better Place, in collaboration with Nissan, are working on a smart grid and battery swap stations for electric cars. I can’t say it’s an analogy we’d ever considered before. But the quote that “A hybrid is like a mermaid: if you want a fish, you get a woman; if you want a woman, you get […]

Filed Under: Nissan News Tagged With: Car Battery Technology, Carlos Ghosn, Eco Cars, Electric Cars, Hybrid Cars

Fisker buys GM Plant – Project Nina moves on

October 27, 2009 By Cars UK

Fisker Automotive has bought a redundant GM plant in Wilmington, Delaware to produce a new low-cost electric hybrid – Project Nina. All the news from Fisker until recently has been about the development of the Fisker Karma, a luxury plug-in hybrid electric car. But last month we reported that Fisker had been granted a DOE […]

Filed Under: Fisker News Tagged With: Eco Cars, Electric Cars, Hybrid Cars, Project NINA

Nissan Leaf Revealed – 3 more Electric Cars to come

October 21, 2009 By Cars UK

Nissan has revealed the Nissan Leaf EV at Tokyo and confirmed there are three more electric cars to come, including an electric Infiniti. We had the first information on Nissan’s Leaf EV a couple of months ago, at about the time GM were trumpeting the massive economy of the Chevy Volt. Nissan trumped their figures […]

Filed Under: Infiniti News, Nissan LEAF, Nissan News, Tokyo 2009 Tagged With: Carlos Ghosn, Electric Cars

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