BMW i3 – 42.2 kWh battery for just 3% more BMW already released prices of the upcoming i3/ i3s in the UK and, as it turns out, the entry-level version will be just around 3% more expensive. The previous 33.2 kWh i3 started at £34,070 on-the-road price (OTR), which includes 20% VAT and On the […]
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2019 BMW i3 Prices In UK Only Slightly Higher Than 2018 i3
BMW i3 – 42.2 kWh battery for just 3% more BMW already released prices of the upcoming i3/ i3s in the UK and, as it turns out, the entry-level version will be just around 3% more expensive. The previous 33.2 kWh i3 started at £34,070 on-the-road price (OTR), which includes 20% VAT and On the […]
UK: Renault offering Zoe electric car with £9,500 discount
Renault relaunches their scrappage scheme offering 5,000 pounds when handing in an old car and buying an electric one. In case of the Zoe EV, this decreases the price to a record low when applied together with the UK Plug-in Grant of 4,500 pounds. The manufacturer’s scrappage scheme and federal electric car incentive combined, result […]
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Future electric cars to be powered by new UK company and factory
The UK’s largest independent car battery manufacturer will open in early 2019 in Coventry at a new, multi-million pound, high-tech facility that will produce batteries for future hybrid and electric vehicles. The factory will be operated by a new joint…
The Felix Project takes delivery of seven Kangoo Z.E. electric vans
Renault UK is growing its support of the London-based Felix Project with the donation of a further seven all-electric Renault Kangoo Z.E. panel vans. This will allow the charity to expand its operation to provide the capital’s most disadvantaged inhabi…
UK Announces Electric Car Battery Development Funding Plan
Investment will be spent on researching and developing battery and green vehicle tech. Theresa May announced an investment of more than £100 million in environmentally friendly vehicles, as she addressed the UK’s first Zero-Emission Vehicle Summit. At the event in Birmingham, the Prime Minister will spoke of her “ambitious mission” to put the UK at […]
London Charity Goes Green Renault Electric Vans
The Felix Project will use the seven Kangoo Z.E. vans for city-center food deliveries and collections. A London-based charity has grown its fleet of electric vans with the addition of seven new Renault Kangoo Z.E. light commercial vehicles. The battery-powered panel vans will be used by The Felix Project to provide London’s most disadvantaged inhabitants […]
Coventry Adds Incentives To Push Up Use Of Electric Taxis
Go Electric Taxi scheme sees drivers offered incentives worth £2,500 to switch to electric cabs. The city of Coventry is offering taxi drivers a unique range of incentives to move into battery-powered electric cabs. As part of a joint venture between Irish energy firm ESB, taxi app Gett and German technology firm Siemens, taxi drivers […]
Plug-In Electric Car Market Share In UK Surges Above 4% In August 2018
British plug-in electric car sales went through the roof. We have been accustomed to plug-in car sales in UK standing between 2% to nearly 3% of the total market, but August brought us a surprising surge to over 4.2%! Together with conventional non-rechargeable hybrids, overall around 8% or 1/12th of sales were electrified vehicles. The […]
The new Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV: UK spec and pricing
The new Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV represents the most technically advanced SUV ever produced by Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC). First launched in the UK in 2014, the Outlander PHEV made an immediate impact in the UK – the previous year few…
