This week, Volkswagen has launched a new entry level version of the ID.3 – the company’s Golf sized all electric car. The new trim is called City and comes in at £28,370 in the UK after the recent reduced £2,500 government grant for plug in cars. The ID.3 City comes with a 45kWh battery with 217 miles of range, 148bhp, 229lb ft of torque and it does 0-60mph in a […]
Stellantis, the new parent company behind Citroën, Peugeot, Vauxhall, Fiat, Jeep as well as many more companies has announced recently that coming from its Citroën, Peugeot and Vauxhall brands will be a new hydrogen powered van, next year. Sitting on the same platform as the Dispatch, Expert and Vivaro, which themselves all have fully electric versions, the new hydrogen vans will be plug in hybrid models, with the tank sitting […]
A few days ago, Ford stopped selling its at home electric charger, which was launched for the Mustang Mach E electric SUV. Ford spoke to The Verge about the decision and its due to some of them not working correctly, where the box would stop working all together. Ford has decided to stop selling the charger until it can work out what is wrong. Ford has said that there are not […]
This week, BMW has reduced the price of the BMW i3 all electric car in the UK, due to how the government has recently changed the plug-in car grant (PiCG). At the beginning of this month, BMW actually raised the price of the i3 by £3665, bringing the price up to £39,690. However, on the 18th March the UK government changed the scheme, reducing the contribution in provides from £3,000 […]
In the last few days, Tesla has crossed the mark for the amount of Supercharging locations it has in Europe for Tesla customers to charge up their cars. The company now has over 600 locations in the UK and the rest of Europe, equating to 6039 individual chargers. Tesla has achieved this in just eight years, which is impressive – with the first Supercharger in Europe in Norway back in […]
Jeep has announced last week that starting this spring, it will begin to start rolling out EV charing stations at certain off road trail locations across the US. This is following the launch of the new Jeep Wrangler 4xe hybrid, and whats quite good is that Jeep will be using solar or mains power to supply the electricity. Solar makes sense at a lot of remote off road locations, where […]
The all electric Buzz from Volkswagen is coming very soon to Europe with the US getting it a year later in 2023. Volkswagen spoke to Car and Driver this week who confirmed the news. Volkswagen will be launching quite a wide variety of models here in the UK and UK with a commercial vehicle version as well as a passenger van in different wheelbase sizes, short and long. Whereas the US will […]
BMW has announced the prices and more details about the new upcoming iX all electric SUV. The car will have up to 373 miles of range on the top spec version with dual motors, 100kWH battery and up to 500bhp. BMW is launching the iX with a brand new version of iDrive, with a 12.3-inch drivers display and a much larger 14.9-inch display for infotainment. The main screen is touchscreen, […]
Ford is planning on launching a new all electric Transit Custom in 2023, which goes along with its promise to offer a fully electric version or plug in hybrid variant of every model in its commercial product line by the year 2024. To achieve this, both Volkswagen and Ford are partnering up and out of the deal, a fully electric Transit Custom and a fully electric Volkswagen Transporter will hit […]
Earlier this week, BMW CEO Oliver Zipse has announced that Mini will become an all electric only company by the year 2030, with the company’s last combustion only model to be released in 2025, then on everything new the company launches will be electric only. So far the company only has the new Mini E on sale, which went on sale in March 2020 with prices starting at £25,500 for […]
