This week, Kia has revealed the pricing for the all new 2023 Niro EV, an all electric SUV which is already on sale here in the UK, starting at £36,745 (OTR). Over in the US, the car starts at $39,450 and will be arriving in Kia dealerships later this month. Kia says the new Niro EV will be available throughout the US, in all 50 states. Here in the UK, […]
This week, the Ford Motor Company has announced that it has sold its stake in ‘Sollers Ford’, ultimately ending the company’s presence in Russia, after 11 years running the joint venture with Sollers. Ford sold its 49% share in the joint venture for a “nominal value,” with the option to buy back the share if the situation change. Back in 2011, Ford and Sollers founded a joint venture together to […]
Today, Tesla in China has reduced the prices for the Model 3 and Model Y, for all variants in the model lineups. This means that now, the base version Model Y is now eligible for any government subsidies, due to its costing less than 300,000 yuan (£36,500). This price reduction is only taking place in China, with prices in the UK and the rest of Europe remaining the same. In […]
In Nottingham UK, the ‘Wireless Charging of Electric Taxis’ (WiCET) project has finally gone live, after almost three years in the making. Back in January 2020, the UK government announced funding for the project and it was awarded £3.4 million to install a testing base for wireless charging taxis and earlier this month, it started working. A taxi rank in Nottingham has been converted to be able to charge electric […]
Tesla has launched a new public website where both Tesla and non Tesla owners can vote on where new locations for Supercharger charging stations will be. Earlier this year, the 35,000th Supercharger bay was installed and the company isn’t planning on slowing down anytime soon it seems. At this rate, this shows a 35% year-over-year increase in new locations over the past few years. Supercharger Voting coming soon. Reply with […]
Ford has recently provided more information about the upcoming E-Transit Custom. Ford announced the all new electric van earlier this year in May and it shares a platform with the Volkswagen ID. Buzz. Ford will also be updating the diesel, mild hybrid and plug-in hybrid models to share the same design as the electric version, with updated front end, interior and more. Ford showed off the new Transit Custom last […]
Here in the UK, one of the country’s major breakdown services, the RAC has recently ran a survey which looked at the state of motoring in 2022. The RAC spoke to 3102 UK drivers and looked at how many people are willing to switch to EVs and how many are planning to have an EV as their next car. The numbers showed that an all time high number of drivers […]
Mercedes has revealed that in Q3 2022, it has had rising sales of its all electric vehicles, which includes the vans it makes too. In Q3 2022, Mercedes has seen around 30,000 sales of its pure electric vehicle range, which is expanding all the time, with the company launching many new SUV models. Compared to Q3 2022, the sales have practically doubled, with Mercedes-Benz Vans seeing 3,000 sales of electric vans […]
EV charging network, Pod Point has announced this week that its free charging program at Tesco supermarkets in the UK is coming to an end. Back at the end of 2019, Volkswagen and Tesco partnered up to provide free EV charging at its supermarkets but only for 7kW fast chargers, at the time there was a small charge for anything faster, at 50kW. However, in the three years since the […]
BMW has announced that production of the all electric Mini will cease in 2023, when the company will be moving it to China instead. We reported last week that BMW is bringing production of the Mini Cooper Convertible back to Oxford next year, but at the same time moving Mini Electric production to China instead. Going forward, the Cowley factory will build Mini Cooper three-door and five-door Hatch models, as well […]
