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Ilika leading £8M project on high silicon content electrode SSBs for EVs

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Ilika will receive a grant of £2.8 Ilika will receive a grant of £2.8 BMW Group and WAE Technologies will join the project’s steering committee. At BMW Group we have more than 13 years of automotive battery cell development experience. —Georg Steinhoff, Head of R&D at BMW Motorsport Ltd.

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Gordon Murray T.27 EV overall winner of 2nd annual Brighton to London RAC Future Car Challenge

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Overall winner of the second annual Brighton to London RAC (Royal Automotive Club) Future Car Challenge on 5 November was former Formula 1 designer Gordon Murray and his T.27 To win this event is truly special and could not have been achieved without the 50% grant from the Technology Strategy Board and my team. 27 electric vehicle.

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UK Government awards more than US$141M to 38 driverless and low carbon vehicle projects

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Seven innovative projects will share grants from the latest round of funding from the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC), the joint industry-government program to put the UK at the forefront of low carbon vehicle technology. million (US$21.5

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London City Commuting: Why an EV makes sense

Drive Electric

It almost seems as though London is against us mere motorists. With some great transport links to take advantage of, having a car in London isn’t always necessary or practical. Why are EVs best for London? Soon enough, you’ll only be able to buy a new EV in London, or anywhere else in the country for that matter.

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BMW and UC Davis Partner on MINI E Study

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BMW of North America and the University of California at Davis (UC Davis) are partnering on a year-long field study to determine the viability of electric vehicles. We are pleased as a public university to be partnering with BMW to find solutions to our urgent public problems of transportation energy supply and environmental impacts. —Dr.

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Peugeot E-Expert walk around and first drive

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Buying a vehicle like this outright can be very expensive even with the up to £8,000 pounds government grant applied. BMW 330e PHEV. Lease vs buy. Renault Zoe. Hyundai IONIQ electric ‘Premium SE’ (2018). Kia Soul EV. Volkswagen Golf GTE. Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV (2017). Hyundai IONIQ electric (2017). Tesla Model X.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

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Exclusive rights are granted to Harman Becker to manufacture the latest technology solutions for the worldwide vehicle OEM market. on CO 2 vehicle standards could reduce the price of oil mdf on Environmental Transport Association blasts proposed car scrapping scheme in UK Jeff Grant on Nissan adds flex-fuel version of the Versa.

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