Bentley pushing ahead with electric car plan. Bentley has set its sights on launching its first all-electric car by 2025. The car will follow the launch of sister brand Porsche’s Taycan, which is set to arrive next year. The decision from Bentley to explore the idea of its first all electric car is not so much to […]
Author: Dominik Wilde
Huge New Charging Hub To Be Built In Uk
It’ll be the first of a £1.6bn network. British firm Pivot Power has announced it will build a new large-scale battery and electric vehicle supercharging hub in the north of England. The hub will be built close to the M6, the longest motorway in Britain, and the announcement comes as Britain looks to speed up […]
Peugeot Confirms Upcoming Electric Sports Car Lineup
It’ll quit World Rallycross to focus on the new products. Once upon a time, Peugeot made some of the most fun and exciting sporty cars for the masses. The 205 GTI, for one, is still top of this writer’s shopping list. Unfortunately, in recent years Peugeot has churned out bland SUVs and vanilla people-movers for old people, and […]
Audi Puts Price Tag On E-Tron In UK
New Audi e-tron to be showcased at UK EV experience centre Audi has announced UK pricing for its first all-electric road car, the e-tron SUV. The big battery vehicle will start at £70,805, and will go up against the Tesla Model X and Jaguar I-Pace in the emerging electric SUV market. The car made its […]
Mercedes-AMG One Delayed Some 9 Months
Powertrain-tweaks are behind the hold-up. The long-awaited, Formula 1-engined hypercar from Mercedes-AMG, the One, is facing delays of up to nine months following changes that had to be made to the car’s race-bred powertrain. Since F1 introduced 1.6-litre V6 hybrid engines at the start of 2014, Mercedes has been a dominant force, winning every drivers’ and constructors’ titles since, […]
Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV Gets Fancy New Trim Options
The best, just got better. The best-selling plug-in hybrid vehicle in the UK, the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV, now has two new trim levels. The 5h and 5hs will set at the top of the Outlander PHEV range, building on the high specification of the recently-launched 2019 4h and 4hs models, which both have LED headlamps, Daytime Running lights, fog […]
Here’s How To Save £5,000 On A New Electric Renault Zoe
And scrap your old car at the same time. Renault has announced details of its latest scrappage scheme, which could save customers up to £5,000 on a new car. The scheme accepts any car or of commercial vehicle from any manufacturer so long as they were registered before 31 December 2011 and it’s been registered to […]
Jaguar Proves I-Pace Range With Channel Tunnel Drive
The car completed a 229-mile drive between London and Belgium. Jaguar has taken it’s all-electric I-Pace SUV on a journey through the Channel Tunnel. ‘Car rides on train’, great story, the end. Not so fast though, this is a cross-continental drive with a difference. Why? Because that’s exactly what it is – a drive. Jaguar actually drove its latest […]
New Car Sales Boosted In UK By Plug-In Electric Cars In August
August is usually the second-worst month for new car sales in the UK. The new car market in the UK enjoyed an unexpected boost last month, with demand rising by nearly a quarter. Year-on-year demand for new cars in the UK rose by 23.1 percent according to the latest figures published today by the Society […]
Royal Mail Readies Electric Vans For Deliveries: Hundreds On Road Soon
Nine vans will be rolled out in London, before hundreds more take to the roads across the country. Royal Mail’s first electric vans have finally hit the road. The battery-powered red vans have been developed by Banbury-based Arrival Electric Vehicles and have been rolled out in London ahead of a full introduction nationwide. Nine of […]
