A New German Company called Sono has recently launched their first car..the Sion, a solar and battery powered hatchback.
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If the temperature drops to a nippy -7C you could lose 12% of the driving range of your electric car, on the other extreme, at a balmy 35C you could lose 4%…
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March the 5th at the Geneva Motor Show Aston Martin will reveal their all electric SUV to the world press. Aston Martin stopped building Lagonda Cars in 1958 but has decided to resurrect the brand and aim the new product directly at the Rolls Royce and Bentley in the ultra-luxury SUV marketplace.
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Sam Bird driving the Envision Virgin privately entered Audi e-tron FE05 racer stormed to a great win in a sizzlingly hot Formula E Santiago race. The Silverstone based team was rightly proud to beat the Audi factory team, which came third.
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Fantastic news for EV enthusiasts….the demand for the new Porsche Taycan is expected to be so high that the company has decided to double the production of the yet to be released vehicle.
Porsche now expect a 40,000 Taycans a year to be built in Stuttgart up from the previously planned 20,000. To put this into perspective Porsche sold 36,000 911s last year.
The car will be presented at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September and sold in the market early in 2020.
Read MoreTwo of the biggest players in Japan are getting together to develop battery technology and production. Woken up by the fact that China is steaming ahead with all elements of Battery technology.
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Honda wants two thirds of all its cars sold in Europe to be Electric by 2025. So to get this show on the road they better get moving….and they have. At the Geneva Motor Show in March they will show their new prototype Electric Vehicle.
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This year known as the ABB FIA Formula E Championship, is a class of auto racing that uses only electric-powered cars. The series was conceived in 2011, and the inaugural championship started in Beijing in September 2014.
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Volkswagen I.D. R will attempt to set a Nurburgring lap record
Volkswagen is driving forward at high speed, both in production vehicles and on the racetrack. Following the record-breaking run at the famous Pikes Peak Hill Climb, the ID. R – Volkswagen’s fully-electric sports car – has now set its sights on another record in the summer of 2019: the lap record for electric cars on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife in Germany, which is regarded as one of the toughest racetracks in the world.
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Two bits of news from Renault Nissan or Nissan who presently intently dislike their partner Renault ( at the moment )…
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Research project “FastCharge”: ultra-fast charging technology ready for the electrically powered vehicles of the future
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Not revolutionary by any extent but useful, this is what Tesla say about their new Wall Connector:
Recommended for Model X, Model S and Model 3
Faster charging speeds than our standard mobile connector.
Full Charge Ahead …VW joins the game.
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Tesla or maybe I should say should Elon Musk, is an innovator, a very clever one at that. The multi-million dollar question though is whether or not Musk is a good businessman.
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The I.D. BUZZ is Volkswagens van of the future.
Its electric range is up to 600 km (NEDC). The four-wheel-drive I.D. BUZZ can be charged either inductively or via a charging station.
t will have a fully automated driving mode and with a bit of luck will be launched in 2022.
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The ID. CROZZ is Volkswagen's first electrically powered crossover utility vehicle (CUV) – a four-door coupé and sports utility vehicle (SUV) in one.
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Volkswagen had its trousers pulled down, well and truly during and after the ‘dieselgate’ saga. Having endured a huge loss of face in 2015 that is still very much ongoing today WW decided the do the honourable thing and come clean ! They are now well on the way to becoming one of the leaders in e-mobility and have committed an eye watering 11 Billion Euros in development by 2023.
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OK, I admit it, I’m a bit of a Porsche fan but even so I think and hope you’ll agree that the Taycan ne´ Mission-e new all electric car is a bit of a stunner.
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