Audi is launching a new A3 Sportback plug-in hybrid, delivering a huge 88 miles of all-electric range and qualifying for 5% Benefit-in-Kind. On sale from November priced from £39,150, the new plug-in hybrid version more than doubles the electric range of the previous model, thanks to a new higher-capacity 25.7kWh battery, while also now delivering
The new bike rack is a real breakthrough. Auxtail’s founder and a former designer at Nissan, Craig Broadbent, explained: “Electric cars are range sensitive and wind resistance consumes roughly half of their battery’s energy. Carrying loads on the roof seriously limits their range so it makes sense to carry bikes at the rear. The thing
Intro The Kia EV3, a £32,995 new electric crossover that’s Volkswagen Golf-sized in its footprint, is exactly the kind of car that buyers could default to in the electric car era as they have done to the Golf in the combustion one. The EV3 gets to near price and spec parity with a 2.0
A real-world range test has shown what distance a driver should expect to cover from a fully-charged battery on some of the latest electric vehicles (EVs). The most efficient new car in the test, conducted by What Car?, was the Tesla Model 3 RWD, which averaged 4.4 miles per kWh. The least efficient, the Audi
Norway, one of the world's largest exporters of oil, now has more electric cars on its roads than petrol-driven vehicles. Of the 2.8 million private cars registered there, 754,303 are now all-electric, compared with 753,905 that run on petrol, according to new figures from the Norwegian Road Federation. The Nordic country of 5.5 million
Used EV sales are growing fast, with buyers attracted by second-hand value, improved battery longevity, low running costs and the way they drive Used car EV sales are growing faster than new EV sales right now and it’s easy to see why, since electric cars tend to lose their value pretty
The first electric Rolls-Royce in the modern era is as vast as it is luxurious, with a quiet ride and boundless options for customisation, but falls short of perfection The Spectre is a car that needs very little explanation: it’s a Rolls-Royce that also happens to be electric. Although lacking the usual V12 engine, it
Half of ICE drivers want to shift to electric vehicles (EV) due to the cheaper running costs as they feel the squeeze at the fuel pump, new research has found. The findings from an Octopus Electric Vehicles survey also found that once drivers go to battery power they won’t return, with 96% stating their
Elon Musk is never far from a headline these days, from his recent inflammatory posts about the far-right riots in the UK to his endorsement of Donald Trump for president. But his increasingly toxic rhetoric is having a knock-on effect: some Tesla owners are starting to rethink whether they should own his electric cars
The introduction of electric cars has been quite the rollercoaster ride, hasn’t it? Government grants aimed at reducing the price gap between electric and internal-combustion cars came and went, while showroom prices have generally remained disappointingly high. And three years into my own EV ownership, I wanted to find a cheaper way to keep doing