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Jaguar Land Rover installs UK's largest rooftop solar panel array at its Engine Manufacturing Centre

UK’s Largest Rooftop Solar Panel Array Installed by Jaguar Land Rover

AutoVolt / 3 April, 2014

Jaguar Land Rover has completed the installation of the UK’s largest rooftop solar panel array at its new state-of-the art Engine Manufacturing Centre at i54 South Staffordshire. The new facility has been designed with sustainability embedded throughout and has recently been awarded BREEAM’s ‘Excellent’ rating for the design stage of the assessment for sustainable buildings. […]

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Technological VWs at the Gadget Show Live Include UK Debut for Hybrid Golf

AutoVolt / 2 April, 2014

Visitors to the Gadget Show Live at the NEC in Birmingham next week will be the first in the UK to see the new Volkswagen Golf GTE plug-in hybrid, which mixes the dynamics of a GTI with the emissions and economy of an electric car. Also on display on the Volkswagen stand at the show

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Mitsubishi Announces UK Pricing for Outlander PHEV

AutoVolt / 1 April, 2014

Mitsubishi have finally revealed pricing for their Outlander PHEV and the good news is it is much cheaper than originally anticipated by most. Original rumours surrounding the new car put the cost at around £35,000 but Mitsubishi has announced the plug-in hybrid vehicle will cost £28,249 after the UK government grant of £5,000. However, the

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Bluebird’s New Electric Racer & Race

AutoVolt / 1 April, 2014

Bluebird is a name synonymous with racing and speed and now electric vehicles too. Early announcements were made last year connecting the famous British legend to Formula E and a special road going electric vehicle, but these quickly fell through for unknown reasons and all fell quiet. Bluebird has now reappeared with an all new

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Audi Unveils the New R18 e-tron Quattro

AutoVolt / 31 March, 2014

Audi began the 2014 WEC season with a spectacular appearance. The new Audi R18 e-tron quattro did not do its initial kilometres at Le Mans on the legendary race track in Western France but in public traffic. Audi factory driver Tom Kristensen, with nine victories under his belt the record holder of the Le Mans 24 Hours,

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Toyota Racing Enter New Era With the TS040 Hybrid

AutoVolt / 28 March, 2014

Toyota Racing has taken the wraps off the new TS040 Hybrid, the car which will take the team into the 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship and a new era of hybrid powered motorsport. The new car, will make its competition debut at the season-opening Six Hours of Silverstone race on 20 April. Toyota will be

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London Design Museum Features Volkswagen XL1 in Designs of the Year Exhibition

AutoVolt / 28 March, 2014

‘Striking’ and ‘Volkswagen’ are words rarely associated with each other, but with the supercar-esque sleek lines of Volkswagen’s XL1, that is no longer the case. The world’s most fuel-efficient hybrid car will go on display in the Design Museum in London alongside other examples of design excellence and Designs of the Year award nominees from

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Energy Efficiency Forum 2014 Attended by BMW i

AutoVolt / 27 March, 2014

Under the theme of “Energy efficiency and its contribution to sustainable economic growth”, the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, Johnson Controls and The Climate Group held the fourth Euro-Mediterranean Energy Efficiency Forum (EEF) on 24 and 25 March 2014. The forum was launched in 2009 by the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation and

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Anthony Davidson Picks a Home-Built Hybrid

AutoVolt / 27 March, 2014

Toyota Racing’s Anthony Davidson took time out from his preparations for the World Endurance Championship season to take delivery of a new set of wheels for life away from the race track. The 34-year-old British driver called in at Toyota’s Burnaston factory near Derby to pick up a new Auris Hybrid Touring Sports. The top-of-the-range Excel

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[From left to right]: Catherine Banchard, CEO of ONE DROP, Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil, and Formula E representatives Chris Schroeder and Robert Lavia beside the Formula E car during the announcement of the new Formula E and ONE DROP partnership.

FIA Formula E Announces Joint Partnership with ONE DROP

AutoVolt / 26 March, 2014

Organisers of the FIA Formula E Championship have announced a joint partnership with ONE DROP, showing their support for the non-profit organisation which strives to ensure that water is accessible to all, today and forever. Beginning this September in Beijing, Formula E is the FIA’s global motorsport championship featuring fully-electric open-wheel cars racing in 10

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