Green Car launches Of 2011
Tweet The Green car launches of 2011 Go green is the buzz phrase of the year. Be it food, clothes or even cars. Everybody has been bitten by the green bug and is trying to become more eco-friendly. Many of the auto majors announced at the start of the New Year, the hybrids and eco-variants [...]
Nissan Give Lincoln Free Charging Point In Response to Top Gear
Tweet Last week’s episode of Top gear highlighted the problems with the lack of infrastructure in the UK for Electric vehicles. Jeremy and James set off in 2 electric cars, Jeremy in a Nissan Leaf and James in a Peugeot iON, on an ordinary trip to the seaside. Just outside Lincoln it became clear the [...]
Phantasy Number 1: If you won the lottery.
Tweet Imagine that on Sunday morning you made a cup of tea, swallowed a couple of ibuprofen and booted up your computer to find an email from the National Lottery that informed you that it was YOU…that your numbers had come up on the big money balls and you were now a multi millionaire. Imagine [...]
Electric cars VS Hybrid / Gas powered cars – which is cheaper?
Tweet To start with you need to look at the capital cost of just buying the vehicle, then you have to look at cost of ownership and cost per mile. Finally you need to look at depreciation and resale value. A hybrid car typically costs about 8-10% more at present than its conventional equivalent and [...]
Ring Tones for Electric Cars
Tweet Manufacturers say that it will not be long before you will be able to choose the sound your car engine makes, in the same easy manner you change the ring tone for your mobile phone. HALOsonic is the brainchild of a British engineering company that say, “Noise is bad, sound is good.” Their system, [...]
Electric Audi A1
Tweet Audi have joined in the electric car debate by producing the new Audi A1 hybrid, which will be power by the e-tron project. The superminis will be fitted out with an electric motor capable of generating 101 bhp of energy giving the car a top speed of 81 mph and a range of 30 [...]
World’s first diesel hybrid
Tweet Have you ever wondered why there isn’t a diesel / electric hybrid car? Up to now the reason has been cost, as having a diesel engine which costs more than a petrol engine and then adding another electric motor to the setup has made the idea fail to make economic sense. Now it seems [...]
Hi Tech Car Pooling
Tweet It seems that Daimler have seen the future of car pooling and come up with an interesting mix of technology and travel. Car2gether is the offshoot of Daimle’s Car2go scheme where the need for car ownership is removed, well at least if you live in Austin, Texas or Ulm, Germany. Car2go allows you to [...]
Electric Cars, a Survey
Tweet With the government increasingly emphasising the importance of more environmentally friendly, green cars and even going to the lengths of offering thousands off certain green models, the popularity of the green, electric car can only increase- you would think. However a recent survey on attitudes towards electric cars by the website Parkers.co.uk showed that [...]
Electric Car Charging Network Safe
Tweet There are many around who are panicking over the up and coming government cuts and cost saving measures but one area that is guaranteed to be cut free is the planned national network of electric car charging points. The high-profile scheme, which is intended to provide cover across all major British cities, is expected [...]
