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One of Europe’s largest car rental companies Europcar announced that they’re taking on Opel Ampera (pardon, Vauxhall) extended range hybrids as their rental cars.
The first Amperas will be delivered to company’s German branches in November 2011. Later this year a few cars will appear in Belgium and Netherlands. With the UK we’ll have to wait a while – Vauxhall Ampera rental car is due to appear in London in spring 2012. Around the same time the greener rental will be unrolled in other Western European countries.
Although GM Europe maintains that …
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Electric car sales stats as a branch of science is still very young and the data available is incomplete and inconclusive (or both). Even in the USA where the number of sold electric cars is measured in thousands, the whole picture is difficult to paint because smaller manufacturers like Tesla, smart, Wheego and GEM don’t share their sales data. One thing is clear, though, that the small manufacturers commbined together have less electric cars manufactured each month compared to the two biggest trailblazers in the USA.
Of course, I’m talking about …
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When we talk about hybrids, it’s usually electric hybrids like Toyota Prius where braking energy is stored in a battery and managed via an electric motor. They are all rather inefficient by design because it is relatively difficult to get the excess energy in and out of a battery.
There are, however, many types of hybrid cars and if we discount the obvious sci-fi ideas (nuke-cars and sail-cars for example), then there’s KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System) – a great system for storing kinetic energy in a fast-spinning flywheel.
KERS is well …
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The famous Goodwood Festival of Speed usually bears association with automotive history. Lately, however, the future of motoring is represented too. A dedicated FosTech pavilion promises a look into the future, among others displaying electric cars.
One of this years most awaited appearance is the Peugeot EX1 – dubbed the fastest electric car in the world. It will be running up the 1.16-mile hill climb at Goodwood driven by Stéphane Caille. The EX1 record-breaker is prowered by two electric motors each driving an axle. The pair combined produces power output of …
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Hertz, one of the most recognizable car hire brands in the world, has done what now seems a completely sensible thing – they’ve launched a new service for the capital – electric bikes are now available for hire.
The pilot project includes two models of electric bikes – Fast4ward Edge and A2B 24 with the range of approximately 25 and 40 miles respectively.
When I say pilot project, I mean that they’re only probing the market by making 12 bikes available. It may sound like a ridiculous amount but, hey, you don’t …
