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 [...]
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: [...]
Hummer Goes Green
Tweet The original Hummer produced by GM was renowned for being a gas guzzling giant. It was due to their poor fuel consumption of around 10 miles per gallon that GM ceased production of its greedy giant in early 2010. The MEV Hummer HX however is a completely different breed. A miniature vehicle in comparison [...]
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 [...]
Mini E – Electric Car Trial Results
Tweet In December 2009 The BMW group launched a trial to see how electric cars performed in the real world. They did this by producing the Mini E test vehicle, 40 of which were handed to a mixture of fleet drivers and private buyers in the UK to test over 6 month periods. The test [...]
EV’s Made Easy
Tweet Ever been confused by all the information out there on electric vehicles (EV’s,) you won’t be alone, I for one can admit to being a little overwhelmed with all the new technology. Hybrids, full electric, plug in hybrids extended range and so on. However there’s no need to despair. In February John Brown media [...]
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 [...]
Coventry; Leading the Way to Lower Carbon Footprint
Tweet The traditional home of the UK motor industry is now fast becoming one of the leaders in the new generation of automotive development and production The financial consequences for failing to meet CO2 emission levels – as well as the ethical incentives to producing greener vehicles – are helping to drive forward the development [...]
