Electric Car News

You might have seen something like this already. Some time ago VolksWagen had the 1-litre concept – a small diesel car that had a 1+1 seating arrangement (the passenger sitting behind the driver). The car could manage 100 kilometres on 1 litre of diesel fuel (282mpg), hence the name.
Audi has gone further and developed a similar car called Urban Concept. Just like the 1-litre, it is a narrow 1+1 car with a low drag coefficient. Executed in the usual Audi style and even somehow

When buying a used hybrid car you need to look out for the same things you would if you were buying a used petrol or diesel car. Hybrid cars work using both electricity and fuel, so the only thing that is different about the three types of cars is the engine. So by doing the usual cosmetic checks you will be halfway to owning a second hand Toyota.

After The Mayor of London confirmed that as of 3 January 2012 the Low Emission Zone will affect larger vans, minibuses, 4x4s, caravans and other specialist vehicles, I started receiving phone calls and emails from worried off-roaders with a question: “Am I banned from entering London?”
Being myself a Land Rover person, I had to investigate this. First things first – the Low Emission Zone or LEZ is a new initiative aiming to keep the old fuming diesels out of the Capital and Greater London altogether.
There’s nothing bad with a diesel …

Another day and another electric car research has become public. This time it is the Mini E in the role of a laboratory rat.
After a stream of inconclusiveness, expect some conclusive results at last!
Here is the Mini E field test in numbers:

BMW publicly presented their family of electric cars earlier this year. Those, however were just visualisations and sketches and we had no idea if BMW really meant business. Now at last they’ve unveiled both cars – i3 and i8 – in full flesh.
It is understood that these are the preeliminary concepts – the work continues abd there might be some substantial deviations from the initial design. I just hope that the deviations do not “normalize” the cars as