Kia Soul EV arrives in the UK
Kia’s new electric Soul has gone on sale in the UK, priced from £24,995 after a government grant of £5,000. That places it £3,445 above the price of the range-topping model of the existing combus...
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BMW develops street lights that charge your car
BMW has developed street lights that double up as electric car chargers according to the news agency, Reuters. The German carmaker is to run a pilot project in Munich next year, using existing st...
Electric car travels over 400 miles on a single charge
Travelling 736km (457 miles) on a single charge is something that sounds far out of the range of even a Tesla Model S - but that's exactly what one firm has achieved with its converted-to-electric-...
Student-built electric car sets new acceleration record
A new world record for the fastest accelerating car has been set in Switzerland – by an electric race car developed and built by students. The ‘grimsel’ car, developed by students at ETH Zurich a...
New electric car battery could triple EV driving range
Scientists have developed a new lithium ion battery which could overcome the two major complaints about current generation batteries – price and range. What’s even better, the new battery could b...
Ireland launches new EV Drive4Zero incentive scheme
Ireland is the latest country to catch the EV bug, with the launch of a new pilot scheme called Drive4Zero. Starting in Cork, in the south west, offers buyers of electric cars a number of incenti...
Tesla’s Model S gets new taxi job role in Amsterdam
At around £50,000, a Tesla Model S is a desireable car, but hardly the sort of vehicle to bring electric driving to the masses. As a result there are probably hundreds if not thousands of wannabe ...
Is London’s EV charging network really in such a state?
London’s charging network is a jumble of broken and neglected chargers according to a new article in The Telegraph today. While at first we suspected that there might be an element of hyperbole in...
Electric car sales accelerate in the UK with record grant uptake
Over a quarter of all the UK’s plug-in vehicles purchased through the Plug-in Car and Van Grants were sold in the last three month, according to the latest statistics from the Office of Low Emissio...
Carol Voderman becomes latest celeb to switch to an electrified car
TV maths whiz, Carol Voderman has become the latest ambassador for the Government’s Go Ultra Low campaign, in support of plug-in vehicles and other ultra-low emission vehicles (ULEVs). Voders is ...
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