How are electric vehicles (EVs) to catch on? Make them small, delicate and vulnerable like the G-Wiz and people only feel sorry for them. Build them mainstream and blandly family-focused like the excellent Nissan Leaf and you’re unlikely to even notice them on the street. The slick super performers like the Tesla Roadster are top… Continue reading
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Making Hay, with an electric connection
Here’s a challenge to the Hay festival organisers. Something to set up for the 2012 event, perhaps? Start a campaign to make it possible for at least some of the very many celebrity guests to travel from London (where I assume most begin their journeys) the 184 miles to this small town in the Welsh… Continue reading →
Buying electric cars for staff use, councils could slash costs
Could local councils persuade their staff to use electric cars in order to cut costs? Consultant Stephen Cirell floated the radical plan in MJ, the local authority magazine. This is his proposal. Currently the mileage rate many, and probably most, councils pay staff is well over the figure recommended by the Inland Revenue. But staff… Continue reading →
Will U.K.'s ambitious CO2 targets boost green jobs?
Someone, or some company, somewhere in the UK (or, not quite so good, an overseas firm which now sees opportunity here) will do well out of a bold and possibly historic announcement made in Parliament yesterday (May 17, 2011). The UK government pledged to halve carbon dioxide ( Co2) emissions, setting the most ambitious targets… 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 →