Jaguar has revealed pricing, a near-300-mile range and final production specification for its first electric vehicle; the I-Pace. The Jaguar I-Pace electric vehicle will be available to order starting today, 1st March, in S, SE and HSE derivatives alongside a First Edition priced from £63,495 OTR. Jaguar will initially only offer a liquid-cooled 90kWh lithium-ion […]
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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 busy working hard with the various boroughs of London to accommodate
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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 of juice along the roadside, with nowhere in-between towns
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Next, the retail giant, is the latest company to embrace Rolec’s ‘EV Charge Online’ service, with the provision and management of their electric vehicle charging network. Rolec EV recently confirmed that Next had commissioned a second phase of charge point installations featuring Rolec’s EV Charge Online system, which provides all EV drivers with access to
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Volkswagen’s latest electric concept has been unveiled at the Auto Shanghai 2017 car show and continues the line of I.D branded EVs that the company hopes to play a major role. The latest concept is a smart, in more than one way, CUV that’s clearly been designed with fashion in mind. CUV stands for, “Crossover
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A new milestone in modern transportation was reached this week as NAVYA, a global leader in the development, conception and deployment of 100% autonomous and fully electric shuttles (see Autovolt issue 17, Mar-Apr 2017), announced that it will open its first operations office in the United States in down-town Chicago. This marks the first NAVYA
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The London Taxi Company (LTC) today announced the official opening of the UK’s first car plant dedicated solely to the production of range -extended electric vehicles. This new, state-of-the-art, vehicle plant in Ansty, Coventry, is where the world’s first purpose-built, mass-market electric taxi will be built. LTC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Geely, has invested more
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Charge Your Car (CYC), one of the UK’s most popular electric vehicle charge point networks, is to introduce a connection fee on each successful charge across its England and Wales tarrif-free public charge points. A £1 connection fee will be implemented from the 1st May 2017, the company stated in an email sent to their
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Following Renault’s recent launch of the Zoe extended range with the Z.E.40 battery, the French firm has confirmed they will offer the very same battery technology in their popular electric Kangoo Van Z.E. Renault hasn’t released full details, spec or range predictions yet and these will follow on 13th January 2017. However, the Zoe Z.E.40
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Cenex – the UK’s first Centre of Excellence for low carbon and fuel cell technologies – today announced it will lead the Smart Mobile Energy project, supported by the Climate KIC. The Smart Energy Project will investigate how cities can increase energy efficiency and decrease carbon emissions by integrating vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology into the existing
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