The multi-award winning Nissan LEAF has entered the record books again. The convoy of 225 cars was driven around the Silverstone Circuit to break the Guinness World Record for the ‘largest parade of electric vehicles’, beating the previous record of 218 held by Chrysler in the US.
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Renault Electric Vehicle Plans Announced
Renault has revealed plans to put two small electric vehicles on sale from 2011 A new city car based on the Twizy Zero Emission (ZE) concept will be built in Spain from 2011, while an electric supermini will commence production…
Electric Van for Nissan
Nissan’s new NV200 light commercial vehicle is about to go on sale in the UK, and the Japanese automaker has revealed a concept sketch of an electric van based on the same vehicle The newcomer is central to Nissan’s new…
Citroën’s Zero Hero
Citroën is the latest car maker to reveal a new zero emissions vehicle – the C-Zero, thanks to a joint venture with Mitsubishi Motors Based on the i-MIEV, the latest model is powered by a single electric motor capable of…
Peugeot’s BB1 on Show in London
Fresh from the Frankfurt motor show in September, Peugeot’s revolutionary BB1 – a fusion of attributes from both the car and a scooter – went on show at London’s Covent Garden on the 7th and 8th of November Aimed to…
Volvos Electric Dreams
Doom mongers might point to Volvo’s shaky future as owner Ford considers selling it. Yet such fundamentals aren’t preventing the firm’s engineers ploughing on, apparently unmoved. With a stubbornness borne from a belief that cutting edge cars will guarantee the…
Audi e-tron
AUDI’S E-TRON BOMB: Audi are planning an electric-only supercar for 2012, and we’ve driven the prototype. James Foxall reports A s you would expect of a giant German car maker, Audi has a strategy for attacking the issue of electric…
£38k price tag for Mitsubishi i-MiEV
Mitsubishi Motors has announced the on-sale price of the Mitsubishi innovative Electric Vehicle – the i-MiEV
Leaf to grow in Sunderland
Japanese giant Nissan today handed a further boost to its Sunderland plant with the confirmation that it’s zero emission all-electric Leaf will be built in the North East
Europcar pre-orders 500 Renault electric vehicles
Following on from the Memorandum of Understanding on electric vehicles signed at the Frankfurt International Motor Show last September, Europcar and Renault have taken the next step, with Europcar pre-ordering 500 Renault electric vehicles for delivery in Europe’s largest cities from the third quarter of 2011
