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electric car charging infrastructure targets Missed

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The Government has promised that the UK will phase out sales of new petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2035, as part of its commitment to meet net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

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EV Grants slashed overnight

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On March 18th with no warning or discussion the EV grants used to help finance an EV or Plug in were removed, Plug-in car grant drops from £3k to £2.5k. Electric cars are already expensive and adding more to the price is a dead certain to slow down the ramp. Eligibility upper limit reduced from £50k to £35k . Use [link].

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Things to Keep in mind while buying an Electric Car insurance.

Electric Vehicles India

Keep in mind some special features of the Electric Car insurance: Before you buy Electric car insurance you must know a few things because Electric car insurance is quite different from petrol/diesel vehicles. The charging time for most electric cars is somewhere between 5 and 10 hours.

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How Efficient Is Your EV? It’s Complicated

Cars That Think

Why are we using a constant based on the combustion of gasoline in order to measure the efficiency of an electric car? Why are we using a constant based on the combustion of gasoline in order to measure the efficiency of an electric car? But more fundamentally, there is a huge disparity in efficiency overall.

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First month in European history that EV sales surpass Diesel

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million passenger cars, the mix by fuel type signals big differences in growth rates. Demand for petrol and diesel cars shows double-digit drops compared to September 2019 while the volume of EVs increased by 139% to 327,800 units – a record in terms of both volume and market share. YoY in September, to almost 1.3

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Norway leads the world in moving to EVs

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Norway also lets EV use bus lanes and special parking bays making ownership more beneficial than ICE in the city, Norway plans to outlaw pure Petrol or Diesel vehicles in 2025 – the country with the earliest ICE free deadline and 5 years before the UK’s deadline. 4 Electric car 5 235 4.72 3 Electric car 1 980 1.79

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Help support fair-charge

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Automotive journalist and ex-Top Gear presenter Quentin Willson, who is leading FairCharge, which is a new campaign to remove barriers to the transition to electric cars, said owning an EV must be ‘affordable and practical for hard-pressed families and businesses’. It is putting pressure on the Treasury to scrap the ‘unfair’ policy.