All Electric articles – Page 73
-
News
Electric car sales at tipping point says AA
The UK is at a tipping point, with electric car sales set to soar, once drivers overcome the many myths or misconceptions, according to new AA research. Based on AA members’ car buying intentions and future trends, the AA expects there will be more than 500,000 electric and plug-in hybrid ...
-
NewsNissan developing electric engine that runs on ethanol
Nissan Motor Company has announced it is researching and developing an electric power system that runs on bio-ethanol. The unit uses hydrogen derived from the bio-ethanol to generate power, but unlike other car manufacturers’ hydrogen vehicles, it would not require a whole new infrastructure of hydrogen filling stations. Bio-ethanol is ...
-
News
Electric cars to cost less to run than petrol by 2025
A new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance says that continuing reductions in battery prices will bring the total cost of ownership of electric vehicles (EVs) below that for conventional-fuel vehicles by 2025, even with low oil prices. The study forecasts that global sales of electric vehicles will hit 41 ...
-
News
AA finds reluctance over electric vehicles
Only one in eleven AA members buying a car in the next three years would consider going electric or hybrid, according to an AA-Populus poll responded to by 27, 662 members. Of those considering changing their car in the next three years (23,067) the choices were: 50% petrol; ...
-
NewsGovernment to trial roads that will wirelessly charge electric cars
Electric and hybrid vehicles would have no need to stop and charge during long distance journeys if a new initiative by the Highways England is successful. It has announced that trials to equip roads to charge electric and hybrid vehicles wirelessly as they travel along them are to take ...
-
News
Second cars route to electric roll-out
Sparking the electric vehicle revolution could be achieved by flipping current thinking and homing in on the family second car, Edmund King, the AA’s president, told this week’s Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership conference. In his presentation ‘Can we electrify mainstream motoring?’, King made the connection between the realities of family ...
-
News
Electric and hybrid cars top satisfaction survey
British drivers have voted electric and hybrid cars the best to own, according to Driver Power, an annual satisfaction survey by car magazine Auto Express. This year’s car owner survey features a hybrid car in first place and two electric vehicles in its top 10 for the first time. The ...
-
News
Minister predicts roads will recharge electric vehicles
A future in which roads are ‘digitalised’ and can charge electric cars as they travel along them, has been outlined in a speech by roads minister John Hayes. Speaking at a conference on 21st century infrastructure, he said the UK was at a turning point in the history of road ...
-
News
Electric car secondhand values catching up diesels
Forecasts of secondhand values for electric vehicles (EVs) are moving closer to traditional diesel cars as the used car market becomes more accustomed to the technology they contain, according to the self-styled “trade bible” Glass’s. In some cases, residual value (RV) forecasts are already broadly similar to their diesel equivalent, ...
-
News
Record sales of electric vehicles
Sales of electric cars and other plug-in vehicles have increased rapidly, according to the Department for Transport, with a record number of people taking advantage of government grants. The Plug-in Car Grant reduces the price of ultra low emission vehicles (ULEVs) by up to £5,000 for cars and £8,000 for ...
-
News
Minister highlights growth in electric vehicle market
A transport minister has told the Electric Vehicle Summit that the government’s objective is a low carbon road transport system in which electric power is not only seen as a cleaner alternative to petrol and diesel, but also as a more viable, practical and affordable alternative for millions of motorists. ...
-
News
Two thirds of motorists would not consider electric car
Sixty-nine per cent of drivers would not consider buying an electric car, according to analysis of the latest government research by road safety charity, the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM). The research from the Department of Transport, titled Public Attitudes to Electric Vehicles, shows the most important factors deterring motorists ...
-
News
Electric charge point corridor created
Gulf site W Ganderton & Son in Buckingham is included in a newly-created corridor of quick-charge points for electric vehicles across the centre of the country. Known as the Milton Keynes Crosslink and operated by Chargemaster, the 14 points are capable of charging an electric vehicle in around 20 minutes. ...
-
News
Consumers still lack faith in electric vehicles says AA
The lack of used electric cars on the market suggests many consumers still harbour doubts about the technology, despite the substantial Government grants available for buyers of the cars when new, according to the AA. While the AA’s used car portal has 1,369 ‘green cars’ in stock, hybrids make up ...
-
News
New campaign to promote electric vehicles
Government and car manufacturers have launched a joint campaign to promote the benefits of electric and other ultra low emission vehicles (ULEV). The Go Ultra Low campaign, which is backed by BMW, Nissan, Renault, Toyota and Vauxhall, was launched by the deputy prime minister Nick Clegg. The campaign aims to ...
-
News
New canopies generate electricity for forecourt
New canopies for two Sainsbury’s forecourts are claimed to be a world first in that the forecourt roof not only contains photovoltaic (PV) glass to generate electricity but is also transparent. The canopies are at the new Sainsbury’s stores at Leicester and Weymouth, which have been unveiled as the flagship ...
-
News
Static electricity help
The Energy Institute (EI) has updated its guidance for the petroleum industry on dealing with the hazard of static electricity.The third edition of ’Model Code of Safe Practice Part 21: Guidelines for the Control of Hazards Arising from Static Electricity’ provides guidance on identifying and assessing a range of ...
-
News
European network for charging electric cars
A new joint venture by major multinational companies is setting up a cross-European network of charging points for electric vehicles. The company, Hubject GmbH, is a joint venture formed by the BMW Group, Bosch, Daimler, EnBW, RWE and Siemens, based in Berlin. The company operates a cross-industry business and IT ...
-
News
Slow outlook for electric vehicle sales
Petrol and diesel vehicles are predicted to be with us for a long time yet as electric vehicles remain a controversial subject with sales set to fall far short of official expectations. A new report commissioned by UKPIA and the RAC Foundation, ‘Powering Ahead’, predicts that pure electric vehicles are ...
-
News
Service Centre: Jac Roper discusses credit card charges and electric car charging
Do you take plastic? Of course you do You’d probably have to go as far as Germany to find a forecourt that doesn’t accept cards although I haven’t been to Germany lately so I don’t know if their ’cash only’ policies still apply. Now, how closely do you examine your ...