Tagged electric cars

GRIDSERVE, a sustainable energy company, is building an electric vehicle recharging forecourt I remember it well, the launch of the fleet vehicle-targeting Nissan Primera dual fuel, running on LPG with a f...

Range may be an issue, but everything else seems to be just perfect They say electric cars aren’t made for long journeys, but we’re ready to argue that the opposite is true. In fact, we could go one ste...

World-famous motor journalist, Jeremy Clarkson, resorts to insulting a 16-year-old for greater exposure It’s hard to say, as any kind of motor enthusiast, that Jeremey Clarkson isn’t an icon of the indu...

Don’t expect the Tesla Cybertruck to stay this cool, it’s bound to change Elon Musk’s big reveal successfully captured the attention (and news headlines) of the world, which is exactly what he wanted....

Doing a road trip in an electric car really isn’t as hard as you think We’ve been talking to our Motor-Vision Award winner, Lucy, a lot recently and have learned a great deal about her adventures in her...

Is electric car design holding back the growth of the EV market? There are many reasons why electric cars haven’t become mainstream yet; they’re expensive, range can be limited, there’s not enough ch...

In the future, cars won’t be electric, they’ll be hydrogen Motorsports such as Formula 1, MotoGP and WEC have been shaping the car industry for decades now. So many car technologies and innovations ca...

We should give classic car conversions a chance! Going electric isn’t all bad, here’s why. Many classic car fans hate to see their favourite bangers converted into silent and “soulless” electr...

There are loads of great new cars arriving in UK showrooms this year. We’ve already told you about many of them here and one thing you may have noticed from that list is that a fair few of them are e...

Potential electric car buyers don’t need to worry about range anxiety, research finds Electric cars have many positive things going for them. There are no tailpipe emissions, they look like they’re driven ...

Every type of car has its Achilles’ heel. Diesels have the fuel economy but a dirty rep due to elevated NOx emissions. Petrols tend to be nippier but can be weak on mpg. Electric vehicles (EVs) manage to com...

Electric cars are the future’. How many times have you heard that tired line? While it probably isn’t untrue, the electric future isn’t likely to happen any time soon after a new study suggested that Bri...

If much of the criticism of Formula One has been that the technology could possibly take something away from the simple excitement of a driver pitting his wit and reactions against machine, road and the element...

Electric cars may be rising in popularity, but are they just a fad? Here's why EVs aren't the future, they're not even the present. Everyone seems to have an opinion on electric cars these days. EVs definitely...

As electric cars become increasingly popular and the infrastructure to support them grows, there is no doubt that there will be huge benefits for any carmaker that can gain a reputation for producing top-qualit...

Volvo is a brand usually renowned for its intense focus on safety. For decades now, it has strived to produce cars that are safer than everything else out there, with its models regularly being named best in c...

The BMW i8’s powertrain is very similar for the droptop, which means it combines the efforts of a 228bhp 1.5-litre three-pot turbo petrol engine with electric motors. However, these motors have been upgraded...

BMW iX3 Concept - All you need to know Electric vehicles weren’t new when BMW revealed the i3 electric hatchback and i8 hybrid sportscar back in 2012. But the arrival of such a well-respected and premium ...

The arrival of the original Nissan Leaf was a landmark moment for electric cars back in 2011. We’d seen electric cars before, but they were either shoddily built, laughably impractical or a nightmare to drive...

We’ve been covering the rise of the electric vehicle here at Motor Vision for a long time, but it’s only in recent years that the technology has become bolder and more inventive. Sweden has now revealed...

It’s safe to say that electric supercars are no longer a futuristic dream. They are out there on our roads right now and it seems every manufacturer is working on a concept right now. Here are five of our fav...

In the biggest tax shake up since the old-fashioned tax disc was abolished in 2014, rates are now set to change from the 1st of April 2017 and this will affect any vehicle first registered from that date. ...

Volkswagen will unveil a new Golf-sized electric concept car at the upcoming Paris Motor Show. These sketches provide a glimpse of what VW cars could look like in a few years’ time, with various featur...

One of the necessary evils of motoring is road tax - officially known as Vehicle Excise Duty. Just how much motorists pay to have their car on the road boils down to how much carbon dioxide (CO2) is pumped out ...