In the big electric car debate, two inconvenient truths confront each other. As far as the naysayers are concerned, range matters. Nissan claim 110 miles for the Nissan LEAF. (People who have driven it say it’s a less, sometimes a lot less, particularly if you drive on motorways, use the air conditioning and blast… Continue reading
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Could London Olympics give lift-off to the electric car.
The London Olympics are likely to be the best advertisement yet for the electric car. BMW, who will be exclusively providing the vehicles for athletes, officials and VIPs, have fallen far short of the initial target of 4000 electric vehicles shuttling noiselessly and emission-free to and from the Olympic facilities. But in this new era… Continue reading →
Is this the greenest fleet of company cars in Britain?
RCS Printers, a printing company in Retford, Nottinghamshire, has bought six Nissan Leaf all-electric cars for use by its employees. The cars will be powered with renewable energy, generated by solar panels recently fitted on the company’s roof. So this ought to be, near enough, zero-emission driving. Using the slowest form of powering up, simply… Continue reading →
Which is more important – a car’s top speed or its Co2 output?
The Week includes a weekly “New Cars” section, a useful digest of what motoring journalists are saying about the latest models. Useful, that is, unless you’re interested in the one detail which we are said to to care about more than anything else as drivers, the cost of fuelling our cars. Very often these vital… Continue reading →
Fish fight comes to a market stall near us
People are interested in, and concerned about, where the fish they buy in shops and supermarkets and in restaurants comes from. But retailers and restauranteurs are still not making it easy for them to make a considered choice between a fish whose stock is under threat, and species from a sustainable source. Too many places… Continue reading →
Easy electric car charging – coming to a garage near you in 2012
“Range Anxiety” didn’t really cut it as a buzzword for 2011, did it? Not enough stories of electric car drivers stranded miles from a charging point to confirm the still widely-held view that petrol and diesel are still the only reliable fuels to power your car. So let’s try two words that might have a… Continue reading →