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Vauxhall announces new Hydrogen Vivaro-e van

Vauxhall has launched a new hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle version of the Vivaro panel van, which will have 249 miles of range with affect on the load capacity of the van, which is the same as the all electric Vivaro-e and combustion based cars. Parent company Stellantis announced its hydrogen plans in April this year. Hydrogen availability in the UK isn’t at a very high availability at the moment, […]

New all electric Citroën e-Berlingo MPV now on sale

Citroën has put the new all electric e-Berlingo on sale this week, starting at £29,575 in the UK. Being under £35,000, this price does include the government £2,500 grant. The e-Berlingo is sharing the same electric drivetrain as the e-Dispatch, the all electric commercial vehicle Citroën offers, but this is primarily designed as a passenger vehicle with a rear bench seat. Citroën is offering two trim levels, Feel and Flair […]

Mini confirms that the iconic convertible will be electric in 2025

Mini has confirmed that it will be launching an all new electric convertible version of the Mini this decade, specifically in 2025. Currently the company only offers the Mini in electric form on one model, the three door hatchback so it is good that the drivetrain will make it to more models. It is likely that the Mini E Convertible will share the same drivetrain and battery set up from […]

UK is working on a universal alerts system for emergencies

For a long time, other countries such as US, Canada, Netherlands, South Korea, Japan and New Zealand have had a universal alerts system which come through to smartphones. The system doesn’t need to know any phone numbers or locations. The UK is now planning on rolling out its own emergency alert system this year, initial testing will start this month and if that all goes ok the official roll out will […]

Apple announces new features for Apple Music, Spatial audio, lossless audio and more

This week, Apple announced new Apple Music features, with support for Lossless Audio, Spatial Audio and Dolby Atmos too. These features will come at no extra cost to existing subscribers and will be available next month. Apple has said that over 75 million songs will be available in Lossless Audio at launch and these will be in the ALAC codec, with the choice of various quality levels, from what Apple […]

Wondery+ will launch its podcasts on Apple Podcasts Subscriptions soon

Apple announced its new ‘Apple Podcasts Subscriptions’ service in April and it’ll be launching soon, most likely with the upcoming iOS 14.6 release. It offers an easy way for paid podcasts to upload their content and charge for it, all through Apple. Apple will even host the podcast for you. When Apple’s service launches later this month, Amazon’s own service, Wondery+ which is acquired in 2020 will be launching all […]

Hyundai reveals UK prices for the Ioniq 5

Hyundai announced the brand new Ioniq 5 EV recently, it sits under the Ioniq sub brand within Hyundai which sounds confusing as the Ioniq named is already used for other models. The Ioniq 5 is an all new crossover / saloon car with a 58kWh battery, rear wheel drive and 240 miles of range and prices will be from £36,995 in the UK, with it going on sale later this […]

Ford is adding support for Alexa to its new cars

Last week, Ford announced that it is planning on adding over the air software updates to its cars that support it, on the Mustang Mach E and new Bronco and as part of that, Alexa support will be added too. Obviously, people know Alexa from Amazon’s line of smart speakers and the Fire TV but in a car, it’ll be used to help the driver get information on traffic levels, […]

Nintendo is saying a lot of households purchased a second Switch in 2020

Nintendo has recently revealed to investors that in the last fiscal year, which ended in March 2021 the company sold around 6 million Switch consoles to households that had already purchased one before, equating to 20% of the total units shipped in that time frame. A lot has happened in that time, we had a pandemic, which is still ongoing and this forced people and families to be at home, […]

New entry level Volkswagen ID.4 now qualifies for government grant

Last week, Volkswagen added a new entry level trim of the ID.4, called ‘City Pure’ and the big thing is that this model is in the right price bracket to qualify for the latest reduced version of the government grant for EVs. Coming at just under the £35,000 limit, the ID.4 City Pure is £34,650. This new less expensive model has a 148bhp motor, a 52kWh battery and 213 miles […]