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Select Electric Motor Show brings future tech into focus at British Motor Show in 2021

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The British Motor Show is set to arrive at Farnborough International Expo Centre in August with a little extra this year, an entire hall dedicated to electric motoring. British Motor Show CEO Andy Entwistle commented: “We’ve been using the recent lockdown and also our Pop-Up Motor Show in Basingstoke to refine some of our plans.

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Toyota Prius Coupe May Be In The Works

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British motor magazine Autocar reports that Toyota is working on a sporting coupe version of its Prius as a direct competitor to the sporty Honda CR-Z. Although it was formerly thought that Toyota had rejected the idea of expanding the Prius range, Honda's ongoing struggle to claw back more hybrid market-share has apparently.

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In the Caribbean, EVs leave ICE vehicles behind

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I had a Mini Moke from British Motor Works. There’s a group called ‘Gardening on the Rocks’ that does a plant exchange, there’s another event that promotes plastic recycling… The idea is that we take our EVs around the island and stop at all these events. It was a great island vehicle. It went up to 50 mph.”.

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Labour's £5,000 sweetener to launch electric car revolution | Environment | The Guardian

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What weve got to get people used to is the idea that electric cars will become quite normal, quite usual," said Hoon. How the money would be distributed is yet to be decided but Hoon said it would be available only to people buying cars that ran entirely, or for the vast majority of their time, on electricity.