Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2012

Zipcar in the UK will incorporate the extended range electric Ampera into its fleet of self-service, pay-as-you-go vehicles for the next six months. In the UK, Zipcar operates in London, Bristol, Cambridge and Oxford. In London, there are more than 1,700 vehicles available for use.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 30, 2010

The Vauxhall Ampera made a spectacular debut in London alongside supermodel Erin O’Connor who was aptly dressed in an electrifying design from British fashion icon William Tempest. The Ampera (known outside Europe as the Chevrolet Volt) was continuing [.].

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2017

The London Taxi Company (LTC) officially opened the UK’s first car plant dedicated solely to the production of range-extended electric vehicles. The all-new electric taxi goes on sale first in London in Q4 2017, and then globally in early 2018. —Carl-Peter Forster, Chairman of the London Taxi Company.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2012

You have more and more cities in Europe that are banning internal combustion engine emissions, but with this car you can run downtown in London, for example, with no guilt—you are not guilty, because you are zero emission. This is about changing the rule of the game. Silence is the new vroom. It’s elegantly silent, and responsible.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Transport for London (TfL) announced that two additional bus routes, the 507 and 521, will operate entirely with electric single-deck buses from autumn next year. By 2020, as part of the Ultra Low Emission Zone, TfL is committed to ensuring all 300 single-decker buses operating in central London are zero emission (e.g. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Methanol-powered vehicles are one pillar of Geely Auto’s diversified new-energy strategy, which also encompasses ethanol, CNG, gasoline-electric hybrid, plug-in hybrid, pure-electric, and extended-range solutions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2015

Four additional cities—Amsterdam, Lima, Catalonia (Barcelona) and Rome— signed up to the Global Clean Bus Declaration at the 1 st global Clean Bus Summit in London. The Mayor confirmed that all new buses joining central London’s fleet are now ULEZ-compliant, delivering important air quality improvements now. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2010

Tokyo has more taxis than London, Paris, and New York combined, with approximately 60,000 vehicles, representing a high mileage, high visibility segment that can serve as the catalyst for this technology to transfer to the mass market. Earlier post.).

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Green Cars News

APRIL 24, 2009

The Government is to set strict criteria on the driving range and safety standards of the electric cars which buyers will be able to use the subsidy against. But evstores based in Mayfair, London and MyCar, Micro-Vett, Tazzari vehicles and e-max scooters seem buoyed by the investment into the electric car sector.

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