Dodge The Boris Tax With New Green Cars
Tweet The London Congestion Charge is an unpleasant fact of life for the many motorists whose livelihoods necessitate them entering the City. It is an almost certain fact that this additional motoring tax will spread, like the bubonic plague, to other cities of Britain in the not too distant future. From July 2013 it will [...]
EV or Not EV – That’s the question
Tweet As a world population we have been seduced by the green message when it comes to new cars. The problem is that, the more we find out, the less we like what we hear. Electric vehicles were first introduced to us because oil is a finite resource. No oil – no petrol, as simple [...]
Had enough of the weather? Going green has never been more important
Tweet If like most of us you have had enough of the weather, then it might make you a little uncomfortable to know that much worse is to come. Not only is climate change threatening long term changes to the planet, according to latest research it is also the cause of many of the freak [...]
Pure electric, plug-in hybrid and hydrogen fuel cells – the future looks bright for alternative propulsion
Tweet Electric vehicles (or EVs) offer plenty of benefits for a full-scale switch over to Volt-led motoring on the face of things – not least zero tailpipe emissions. So with the government subsidising your EV purchase by £5,000, why is the UK not seeing a significant increase in the take up of electric vehicles? Answer: [...]
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 [...]
