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Providing free EV charging costs Best Western GB less than orange juice
Best Western Great Britain is leading the hospitality industry’s charge to accommodate more electric cars and says it costs less than the freshly squeezed orange juice served at breakfast to charge a guest’s car overnight. Thirty of its 250 sites now offer electric...
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Tusker Rolls Out Rolec’s EV Charge Online Network
Tusker, one of the UK’s leading car benefit companies, recently installed a substantial number of Rolec’s AutoCharge electric vehicle charging pedestals at its Watford HQ. Each of the AutoCharge pedestals were equipped with Rolec’s EV Charge Online pay-to-charge...
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Nissan to sell electric battery business to GSR Capital
Nissan has announced it has entered into an agreement with GSR Capital (GSR), a private investment fund, for the sale of Nissan's electric battery operations and production facilities to GSR. The sale and purchase agreement covers Nissan's battery subsidiary,...
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EVs get fast and furious at Santa Pod’s Ultimate Street Car event
Last weekend (4-6 August 2017) Tesla Rentals and ecarTestDrives raced out of their comfort zone and on to the drag strip at Santa Pod Raceway’s Ultimate Street Car (USC) event, to show modified petrol car fans what modern electric vehicles can do. The Tesla Model S...
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Petrol and Diesel ban from 2040: The whole story
The UK government has announced plans that would spell the end for petrol and diesel car sales from 2040. The move follows similar plans made by other European countries, notably France, Germany, the Netherlands and Norway who have each set a date; 2040, 2035, 2025...
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BMW confirms electric MINI, continues electrification plans
Following in Volvo's announcement on the 5th July, when the company stated it will only produce cars with an electric motor launched in or after 2019, BMW is the latest manufacturer to reveal electrification plans. The strategy, called NUMBER ONE > NEXT, will begin...
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Autovolt magazine July-August 2017
In this, our third anniversary issue, we go a little off piste and introduce you to the exciting world of drone racing. Ever wanted to participate in Formula E but couldn’t because you’re not a pro racing driver? This is the next best thing. It’s fast, furious...
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Five facts we know for certain about Nissan’s new Leaf
Speculation is rife in this industry and while everyone clamours for some iota of information over another media brand, we're not in that business and instead simply state the cold hard known and ratified facts. With this in mind, don't get your hopes up to be told...
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Bolloré’s Bluecity electric car sharing launched in Hammersmith & Fulham
A new electric car club, Bluecity, has launched today in Hammersmith & Fulham, London. Bluecity is a new arm in the global-reaching Bolloré empire and hopes to take London by storm. Following Bolloré's winning tender for Source London in 2014, the company has been...
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Fairer pricing for Ecotricity’s Electric Highway
When Ecotricity first launched the Electric Highway - a series of rapid charge points across England, Scotland and Wales - the service was free to use. This helped attract many new owners of electric vehicles who were otherwise put off at the prospect of running out...
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Nissan teases new Leaf on social media
Nissan has taken to Twitter to reveal a tiny detail of the forthcoming and much anticipated Nissan Leaf replacement. Unfortunately, the company wasn't giving any additional information away, other than it will be revealed later this year. Amazing things are worth...
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A future without plugging in? Possible, Renault demonstrates
The days of plugging in may be over sooner than expected, after successful trials of a new 20kW wireless charging road in France have been undertaken by Renault, Qualcomm Technologies and Vedecom. The demonstrated took place today, 18 May 2017, and showed-off Dynamic...
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Charge your car at fellow plug-in owner’s homes. Welcome to Chargie
From today, electric vehicle (EV) drivers can visit Chargie (www.chargie.net) to book a charge at domestic chargepoints across the UK. That means at someones house or driveway, not usually public points. Chargie is the world’s first dedicated and bookable peer-to-peer...
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Nio sets fastest Nurburgring laptime. Ever.
The NIO EP9 has set a new lap record at the Nürburgring Nordschleife, achieving a staggeringly quick lap time of 6m 45.900s (six minutes, 45.900 seconds). The previous lap record was set by a Radical SR8 sports car in 2009 at 6m 49s. In terms of production vehicles...
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