Electric Vehicles

Westminster Council is aiming to have over 2,000 on street charge points

Westminster Council has announced plans recently that it is aiming to have a total of 2,000 on street charge points by spring 2023. The majority of the charging locations will be installed within lampposts, which offer a clean and efficient way to get charging to EV owners. Admittedly, this isn’t going to cover everyone but it will help a lot of people in London who park on the road. Westminster […]

BMW announces strong EV sales growth, more than doubling in one year

This week, the BMW Group has revealed that over the past twelve months, its electric car sales have more than doubled across the company’s brands, BMW and Mini. Sales have increased by 114.8% since September 2021 and is only taking into consideration its full electric cars, not hybrids which makes it even more impressive. In 2022 alone, the BMW Group has amassed 128,196 fully electric vehicles sales. BMW hasn’t provided […]

Citroën will now reward PHEV drivers who actually charge the car

Citroën is obviously very aware of what people do with plug-in-hybrid vehicles, and it will start rewarding drivers who actually charge up their Citroën PHEV vehicle. Many people just purchase PHEV models as they have reduced vehicle tax, due to their lower tailpipe emissions and therefore can save businesses thousands of pounds a year. While the financials are all well and good, there is little point if the vehicles aren’t […]

Toyota is planning to launch the bZ3 in China, a new small EV saloon

Toyota has revealed plans to launch the all new bZ3 in China by the end o the year. The new compact saloon is all electric and is built in collaboration between Toyota and Chinese car company, BYD. Toyota will start sales and production of the car later this year. Toyota will only be offering the bZ3 in China for now and it is unclear if these plans will change. This […]

Gary Martin from Modern Heroes took delivery of the first UK Citroën Ami last week

Gary Martin who runs the rather excellent YouTube channel, Modern Heroes was the first customer in the UK to receive a Citroën Ami. The fully electric quadricycle has been a long time coming for the UK market, after finally being announced it was coming around a year ago. Gary received his Ami last week on 28th September and has since published three videos to his YouTube channel which offer an […]

Smart announces prices for the #1 SUV

Smart revealed the all new #1 electric SUV in April earlier this year, but hasn’t yet announced the pricing for it. However, last week the company revealed the full price list ahead of the car being available to order this year. For customers in Germany, the #1 will start at €41,490 and here in the UK those haven’t been revealed just yet. However, €41,490 converted to GBP is around £36,500. When […]

Elon Musk says the Tesla Semi has started production

Tesla CEO, Elon Musk has announced that the long awaited Semi has finally entered production. Musk announced the news on Twitter today and the first customer to going to be Pepsi. The first vehicles are to be delivered on 1st December, later this year. Tesla announced the Semi back in 2017, alongside the all new Roadster. At the time, the company expected to be manufacturing it by 2019. However, by […]

Fully electric cars are now the second most registered car type in the UK, in 2022

This week, it has been revealed that the second most popular type of car, for new sales at leat are fully electric vehicles. So far this year, a total of 175,614 battery electric vehicles (BEVs) have now been registered which is up by 40.3% compared to the same time period in 2021. In comparison with the most popular type of new car, petrol – this is pretty far behind. 350,185 […]

Chevy Bolt EV seeing record sales currently, GM to increase production

Chevrolet has revealed that it has had so much demand for the Chevy Bolt EV that it is having to increase production, after a recent record quarter of sales. GM has announced production for the small EV will be increased, following issues with battery fires. The record sales aren’t a huge surprise, the EV is a pretty good price at the moment at just $26,595 (£23,500). This quarter, the company […]

Tata Motors reveals the new Tiago.ev, a sub £10k electric car

This week, Tata Motors has announced an all new electric hatchback which when converted to GBP, comes in at £9,820 in the UK. The Indian car manufacturer is well known in the UK for owning Jaguar Land Rover, having purchased the company back in 2008. For the most part, the Indian car market has been far behind with regards to all electric cars, mainly due to how the Indian government […]