Order books opened today for Volvo’s first all-electric car – the XC40 Recharge Pure Electric P8 compact sports utility vehicle – costing from £53,155. That’s more than twice the price of the cheapest petrol-powered XC40 currently on sale. It is the first of five electric cars to be launched by the Swedish car firm over … Read more
Arnold Schwarzenegger was seen on his bicycle again on Tuesday. And this time the 72-year-old Terminator actor was with his mini me son, 22-year-old Joseph Baena who has taken after him as he pursues a career in body building. But while the Hollywood action star rode a $5K electric bicycle through the streets of Brentwood, … Read more
Plenty of motorists are already perplexed by the number of different dashboard warning lights that pop up on their car’s display, but there a few new ones they are going to need to get their heads around sooner or later. That’s because a number of dashboard icons are reserved only for plug-in cars that you … Read more
Jason Statham joins a male friend as they go for a ride on their new $8,500 electric bikes in the Malibu Canyon By Rebecca Davison for MailOnline Published: 09:01 BST, 22 May 2020 | Updated: 09:14 BST, 22 May 2020 Jason Statham treated himself to a taste of the great outdoors when he met up … Read more
British billionaire Sir James Dyson has unveiled the sole prototype of his company’s electric car that was cancelled for being ‘too risky’. The aborted ‘N526’ Dyson electric car, which Dyson piled £500 million of his own money into before pulling the plug, is a 16-foot-long seven-seater, electric SUV. The 2.6 tonne-vehicle features an aluminium body, … Read more
Ocado U-turn over school’s pollution fear: Online grocer pledges to use electric delivery vans from new London depot By Ben Atkinson For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 24 January 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 24 January 2020 Ocado has backed down in a row over plans to open a major distribution hub next to … Read more
Do you ever go upstairs to look for something, then realise you have no idea why you were going upstairs in the first place? Or what about putting rice on to cook, then leaving the room and only returning when you smell the burning? I find that as I get older I am increasingly doing … Read more
The ongoing popularity of gas-guzzling SUVs could hamper the nation from reaching its air pollution targets, a new report has warned. Despite ministers’ attempts to push drivers into electric vehicles, they are being outsold by 37-to-1 by SUV models that, on average, produce a quarter more dirty emissions than an average medium-size car, the study … Read more
Silent speedster: Ford unveils 170mph Mustang Cobra Jet – an ELECTRIC dragster with 1,400 horsepower Ford has released initial details of the Mustang Cobra Jet 1400 one-off vehicle It was created to pay homage to Ford’s original factory-developed drag-racer The US firm has fitted it with a wheelie-bar to stop it flipping on launch It also … Read more
One of the fiercest debates around electric cars is how green they are when you take into account the production of batteries and the energy to power them. One report has found that electric models in Europe emit, on average, almost three times less CO2 than equivalent petrol and diesel cars, according to the figures … Read more