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Not exactly electric car news but too exciting to skip. Bristol has become the centre of compressed natural gas vehicle development. Sh*te-powered VW Beetle lovingly named Bio-Bug has started a test run around Bristol streets.
The car runs on methane that is generated from household waste and sewage. Just 70 households are enough to
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A consortium of more than fifty local businesses across the East have devised a £5+ million project called EValue8. It involves installing 600 charging points for electric cars.
Their project has been short-listed by the “Pluggedin Places”, a project by the Office of Low Emission Vehicles. Short-listed, however, doesn’t mean granted - they still got a
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Some bad news this time: the electric car subsidy announced in 2008 has been dwarfed by the budget cuts. It will still be £5000 off when you buy a new electric car but the number of available subsidies has been cut from proposed 46,000 to meagre 8600.
It is believed that allegedly a huge role in this decision has been played by the lobbyists of the established car makers and possibly the oil companies. There are many people who want to keep the electric cars within a very limited market.
This comes …
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The guys from Imperial College London have courageously entered their third week of globetrotting to show off one of the world’s fastest electric cars. The electric supercar SRZERO was developed under the roof of the Imperial College to show the world that electric cars can be cool and quick.
The 84-day journey begun on July 4 as they left Alaska for a 16,000 mile journey to Argentina.
So far the car has been a particular favourite with Canadian cops who enjoy pulling them over on regular basis to check the car.
The car …
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Many of us have been worried that London is the only British city to have a well-formed electric car expansion strategy. It seems now that others are slowly catching up. First, Scotland expressed its commitment in providing an infrastructure to welcome electric cars. Now it is Birmingham.
A giant property developer alliance, that is made up of Hammerson, Future Fund and Henderson Global Investors, have installed four charging points on their
