Last year, at the start of the coronavirus pandemic the organisers of the Geneva Motor Show were forced to cancel the annual motor show. However, while the event was postponed last year and this year, the 91st show will now take place early next year. The organisers of the show are planning on hosting it between 19th and 27th February 2022. The organisers themselves have losses to recover from, due […]
The golden age of the large MPV is over, the rise of the SUV is proliferant and Volkswagen has now taken the Sharan off of sale in the UK. No replacement for the model is planned and already in the Volkswagen product line is the Touran and the Tiguan Allspace, both of which have seven seats. Back in the mid-90s, Ford and Volkswagen noticed how popular the MPV and people […]
Citroën has announced the all new and all-electric e-Relay panel van and it is now on sale in the UK. It is closely related, if not identical to the new e-Boxer from Peugeot and the Opel Movano-e / Vauxhall Movano-e as that collection of companies all sit under the new parent group, Stellantis. Every commercial vehicle in the Citroën lineup now has a fully electric option and the e-Relay is […]
Opel has announced this week that Poste Italiane, the Italian post office has ordered 1,744 brand new, all electric Corsa-e cars. Opel will deliver them later this year and the main goal is to reduce how much CO2 the postal service generates. The Opel Corsa-e and Vauxhall Corsa-e are visually and functionally identical, with a 337km (209 miles) range and rapid charging from public chargers. It is unclear what Poste […]
This week, Vauxhall has announced the new Movano-e which shares the same drivetrain and battery systems as the other large panel vans in the Stellantis group, from Opel, Citroën and Peugeot. Fiat’s version, the e-Ducato looks identical but due to the timings of the merger earlier this year, the battery system is different. Like the other vans in the group, the Movano-e has the choice of two batteries, 37kWh and […]
This week, Opel has announced the new Movano-e which shares the same drivetrain and battery systems as the other large panel vans in the Stellantis group, from Vauxhall, Citroën and Peugeot. Fiat’s version, the e-Ducato looks identical but due to the timings of the merger earlier this year, the battery system is different. Like the other vans in the group, the Opel Movano-e has the choice of two batteries, 37kWh […]
The all electric e-Boxer from Peugeot can be ordered now and prices start from £49,335, the UK Government is offering a grant of £8,000 for plug-in vans and this price shown is with that taken into consideration. Other related vans from other Stellantis brands such as Vauxhall, Opel, Citroën and Fiat have identical looking vans with identical drivetrain and battery systems, the only one that differs is the new e-Ducato from […]
Stellantis is in the process of electrifying all of its brands vans this year, so far the mid size vans from Vauxhall, Citroën, Peugeot and Opel have had full electric versions launched and now the attention is being moved to the larger panel vans, with new models from most of the brands and the latest is one from Fiat, with the e-Ducato. All of the vans are essentially the same, […]
Ford launched the new F-150 Lightning last week, and all new, all electric version of the best selling pickup in America. This new Pro version is aimed squarely at the commercial market, it’ll go on sale at the same time as the consumer version next year and Ford hasn’t added that much over the consumer version. The only big difference is the software, Ford has actually integrated its own commercial telematics software […]
Earlier this month, Subaru shared some images of its upcoming new SUV, which will be the company’s first all electric car and it’ll sit on a shared platform designed specifically for EVs. The platform is being developed in partnership with Toyota and both companies will use it for their next BEV models. Subaru hasn’t shared any details at all, only the rendering in the image above and the name. Subaru […]
