Is “range anxiety” being toppled from its perch as the top reason not to buy an electric car (apart from the cost)? Has it been replaced by “it’s just as polluting because the energy comes from coal-fired power stations”? I don’t know, but Italian design finesse has just met the solar battery charger, and the… Continue reading
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Wire up for an electric holiday
If you owned an electric car, would you take it on holiday with you? The answer, with range anxiety alarm bells ringing, is probably not. You would need somewhere to charge it, and the prospect of threading a wire through the landlady’s kitchen window at the B&B is a bit daunting. Hotels wouldn’t be any… Continue reading →
Car plant to generate enough solar power to make 7000 cars a year.
There’s nothing like a wind turbine to excite local passions, and fill village halls to bursting with angry villagers who have nothing against renewable energy except that they don’t want it here. Solar panels are harder to oppose. The best opponents of one particular scheme close to where I live could come up with was… Continue reading →
More efficient solar panels catching carbon's shadow
It’s been hard to feel particularly positive about the state, and future, of the planet over the past few days. Record global CO2 emissions, after a fall during the recession. Germany easing back on nuclear power. Ongoing climate change denial among the crazy right in the US. And in the UK, a huge number of… Continue reading →
Disc jockey Goodier drives Nissan Leaf on solar power
Disc jockey Mark Goodier was the first person in Britain to buy a Nissan LEAF, in March 2011 He drives his electric car (EV) mainly between his home and his work in London, clocking up about 20 miles a day, and charging it once or twice a week. He has solar panels fitted to his… Continue reading →
Volvo engineers drive down CO2 emissions
So you’re not ready to buy an electric car (EV), with range anxiety, cost and shortage of charging points away from home the big concerns for many. But which showroom should you be visiting if you want the most environmentally-friendly of the conventional vehicles, if you discount the hybrids? A report this week suggested that … Continue reading →