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Electric vehicles score big with enhanced savings over petrol

My Energi

And it’s not just a minor saving we’re talking about – it’s a significant margin that puts traditional petrol vehicles in the rearview mirror once and for all! To put this into context, the typical EV now costs just £12 to charge up to 80%, or just 6.74p per mile.

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Biofuels- paving the way for low carbon future in mobility – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Among liquid biofuels, ethanol is the most widely used for blending with petrol, while biodiesel and bio methanol are produced globally at a y lower scale. E10, which is a mixture of 10% ethanol and 90% petrol can be used in existing vehicles, without any need for modification. the GHG emissions are ~50% lower than that for petrol.

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EV sales in Norway explode ahead of policy changes

Push EVs

Petrol vehicles also saw a relative sales surge ahead of increased emissions taxes. PHEV’s relatively low share was not due to their fall in volume, rather that the volume of BEVs and petrol vehicles were much higher than usual. Petrol vehicle volumes were 4x to 5x recent seasonal norms. The first is a weight tax of 12.5

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Should you rent an EV for a family holiday?

EV Central

Rent a petrol or diesel car for your holidays. In many places, electric cars are cheaper to rent than equivalent petrol cars. And as Europcar says on its website: Save on Petrol! Imagine having to register with a Shell servo before it let you pump petrol. I rent a Vauxhall Astra with petrol engine. But it lies.

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Audi RS e-tron GT review: Driving the most powerful production Audi ever

EV Central

Value The Audi RS e-tron GT costs $248,200 plus on-road costs. The RS comes with some costly options, including a $15,000 carbon and black pack, an $8400 sensory package and a $4550 RS design package costs $4550. It dipped from 249,700 (plus on-road costs) to $248,200 (plus ORCs). It’s time for our first drive.

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The UK’s first 4 seater ‘all electric’ production car

Green Cars News

This is further supported by the London Mayor, Boris Johnson, who has announced his plan to introduce 25,000 ‘juice points’ (charging stations), for electric cars throughout the city. David Martell, Chief Executive, ECC plc, added, “We believe this is the first serious alternative to a petrol or diesel car.

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Londoners gogoing electric

Green Cars News

The company, which offers short-term rentals of the all-electric Mega e-City from its base in Brixton, says that the petrol and diesel price hikes during the summer, and the government fuel duty increase in September, have made people look again at the cost of motoring by traditional means.

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