The Gloucestershire Constabulary has the UK’s largest electric patrol car fleet, with 21 per cent of its 435 vehicles being EVs, i.e. 66 Nissan Leafs and nine Nissan NV200 vans. However, the new Commissioner for Gloucestershire, Chris Nelson, has now sounded the alarm.
Read moreWho offers more range? Renault says the Zoe has a range of 395 kilometres. The Volkswagen ID.4 manages 517 kilometres. And Tesla claims 602 kilometres for the Model 3 Long Range. We know that these distances are possible in favourable conditions. Nevertheless, car manufacturers remain cautious and follow guidelines.
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The internet allows all sorts of “news” to spread such as a man claiming he had come back from the future. For him, the year is 2021 and he says that by then, EVs will be able to travel far and wide. It might be an extreme form of range anxiety but he swears he […]
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Bosch has launched system!e, connected services for electric mobility at the IoT conference in Berlin. It combines the supplier’s electrified drive components and services for electric cars and connects them to the cloud for smart energy management.
Read moreClick tip: The EV Explorer by UC Davis will show you the cost of your commute, comparing four different cars of your choice like the Volt, Prius or Leaf – you name it.
gis.its.ucdavis.edu (EV Explorer) via green.autoblog.com
Reading tip: Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield is looking at (irrational) range anxiety and how to get rid of years of conditioning at the hands of the oil industry.
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Reading-tip: If you like suspense novels, this personal account of the psychological effects of range anxiety might just be the right pre-weekend read and also delivers some semi-scientific facts. To be evolved…
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Video tip: Tesla Motors published a promo video for its right-hand drive Model S. For those not in the UK it might be a bit hard to get your head around it but it is definitely a change of perspective.
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