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UK Government Announces £5,000 Grants Towards Purchase of Electric Drive Vehicles and First Plugged-in Places

Green Car Congress

This [new grant scheme] is now a disincentive for anyone looking at buying the quadricycle type of electric vehicles [such as its G-Wiz]. The first Plugged-In Places are London, Milton Keynes and the North East; and between them they will be installing over 11,000 vehicle recharging points during the next three years.

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Peugeot E-Expert walk around and first drive

Drive Electric

Lease vs buy. Buying a vehicle like this outright can be very expensive even with the up to £8,000 pounds government grant applied. Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV (2017). Our electric car (and van) video guides: Peugeot e-Expert van (You are here!). Tesla Model 3. Volkswagen e-Golf. Renault Zoe. Kia Soul EV. Volkswagen Golf GTE.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Breaking News Feed Chryslers first EV will be the Dodge Circuit Vectrix in trouble, may be for sale REPORT: Toyota claims 40,000 pre-orders for new Prius Cadillac Converj reportedly approved for production *UPDATED New York 2009: Mitsubishi confirms i-MiEV will come to U.S. New York 2009: The Scion iQ goes Big Wheels!

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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

Plug In India

The jet routinely flies at an altitude of 50,000 ft - and can do Bangalore London non stop. Jayram was looking at buying a used E2O, but one of his friends who has one has had service issues. I assume that we will need to triple the current Nexon battery capacity to compete with the ICE Mitsubishis and their ilk.

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Cheap to run but expensive to buy, they offer theprospect of low or zero carbon emissions, but manufacturers won’t sell themunless motorists want to buy them – and motorists won’t buy unless the priceis right and there are enough places to charge the batteries. Car buyers were less enthusiastic.