Stellantis has announced that a lot of its MPV versions of commercial vans are now going to be electric only, as the company discontinues all combustion versions. The Citroen Berlingo, Peugeot Rifter and Vauxhall Combo Life are now going to be EV only in most of Europe as the need for electric propulsion accelerates. Vauxhall is investing £100 million into the old Vauxhall Astra factory at Ellesmere Port to produce […]
Tesla has this week announced that it now has Supercharger locations available for the public in all 50 US states. Earlier in the week, the company announced that a new location was made live in Hawaii, specifically in the town of Aiea with six stalls available. This is actually the second Supercharger supercharger location in Hawaii, the first is not available for public use as it was installed especially by […]
Today during its keynote at CES 2022, GM announced the all new, all electric Chevrolet Silverado. Thee truck is going up against the F-150 Lightning from Ford and has a range of 400 miles on both models. The Silverado will go on sale in the US later this year and two models will be available, the RST First Edition and the WT, which is more geared towards fleet use. Both […]
Ford has announced today that is doubling production of its latest EV, the Ford F-150 Lightning. It has recently stopped taking new reservations of the electric pickup due to increased demand and the company has said it is “completely oversubscribed.” Production will be increased to 150,000 vehicles per year and the pre-orders for the F-150 Lightning have been capped at 200,000 for now. To help with the demand, Ford has drafted in […]
Tesla has now added ‘Active Road Noise Reduction’ to the latest Model S and Model X electric cars. The new feature is available now via a software update and uses very similar technology found in headphones that have ANC built in to reduce the surrounding noise. Tesla say that Active Road Noise Reduction uses two microphones in the front seats that measures the interior noise, then the speakers will push […]
The Tesla Model 3 might have been the best selling electric car in Europe and the UK last year, with around 112,000 sales between January 2021 and November. The figures for December should come in soon but it does look like Tesla has had the best selling car last year. In comparison, Volkswagen sold 62,467 ID3 cars in those eleven months, which is an 124% increase compared to 2020. Not […]
Yamaha has recently announced that it will have two new electric scooters on sale next year, the E01 and the E02. The Japanese company showed off the two scooters as concepts back in 2019, but now it looks like Yamaha is set to release them in 2022. Yamaha hasn’t yet revealed any specs about each scooter, but the E01 will have the equivalent power as a 125cc class petrol scooter, […]
The Ford Mustang Mach-E has been tweaked for the 2022 model year, with updated range thanks to some software improvements which has helped unlock some more usable energy from the battery pack. The engineers have managed to get around 7.4% more range out of it, which offers 17 miles more on the Standard Range RWD model. These figures come from the Ford US online configurator. For the UK models, the […]
With its latest update, which was released this week – Tesla has now stopped allowing users to play games whilst the car is in motion. This update follows on from a new feature that Tesla released called Passenger Play, which allowed basically anyone to play games on the screen in the car, while the car was moving. The issue with Passenger Play was that, well it relied on someones good […]
Lotus has now ended production of its iconic trio of models, the Elise, Exige and Evora, The first two have been around the longest, entering production around 20+ years ago and the final version of each model is to be kept in the Lotus heritage collection. Lotus did announce special final editions earlier this year which were sold in limited numbers. Going forward, the company is going to focus on […]
