Leaked reports yesterday appeared to suggest that the government is considering including some hybrid cars in a sale ban to be enforced by 2040, much to the misguided anger of Prius owners and the auto industry.In fact this suggestion doesn’t go far enough, and to clear our air, meet our international responsibilities and seize the
The diesel scare plummets low-CO2 cars’ sales
Now it is on Nissan to discontinue diesel engines in its line-up in Europe.
Nissan has announced plans to introduce its new all-electric e-NV200 5-passenger van at the Consumer Vehicle Show in Birmingham, England this month.Specifications include a 40 kWh battery pack, contributing to a 186-mile (300 kilometers) range per Japan’s more liberal EPA standards. A full charge can be achieved in eight hours using a 6kW charger.
The first three months of this year saw 13,327 new electric and plug-in hybrid cars registered, a 16% increase on the same quarter last year, bringing the total on UK roads to 147,431.Plug-in hybrids have fuelled the growth so far this year, with more than 10,000 hitting the roads, with registrations of battery electric cars
Once the realm of a niche audience, electric vehicles are on the cusp of becoming mainstream as savvy motorists search for ways to cut costs and reduce emissions. Demand for plug-in cars in the UK has surged over the last four years, with more than 130,000 registered by the end of 2017. And this number
Sales of electric cars in the UK have risen 11% on last year, putting the country in the premier league of those ditching petrol and diesel engines, though it is still miles behind Norway and China.
You know what they say about cars: once you go self-driving, you never go back.Or at least that’s my experience after recently spending some time behind the wheel of the 2018 Nissan Leaf. Getting back into my own older car and having to work the steering and pedals myself now seems laborious. First-world problems, right?The
My experience on Day 1 with a PowerBanx home battery showed that it’s perfectly possible to run a house with using any grid electricity, i.e. for free. However, my experiences on Day 2 and Day 3 showed that it was quite hard to also charge an electric car for free
Renault recently reached a milestone of 100,000 ZOEs produced at the Flins facility in France. Renault ZOE, with its 41 kWh battery and now with an 80 kW electric motor, is one of the best selling electric cars in Europe (it was the best selling in 2015, 2016 and 2017).