Quentin Willson’s 250-Mile Electric Car Range Claim Looks A Stretch. Former motoring journalist and electric car campaigner Quentin Willson was interviewed by Nigel Farage on GBNews and claimed that a 250-mile round trip in an electric car nowadays would be no problem. In my experience that isn’t very likely, especially if high-speed motorway driving accounted […]
Has Looks, Power; But Range Claims Questioned Low Centre Of Gravity Gives Go-Cart Handling Fuel Economy Data Assumes A Speed Of Only 55 Mph New-generation electric cars have so far failed to capture the public’s imagination, but the new Tesla 415 hp super-car may change all that. The Tesla Model S has been winning awards […]
Petrol Motor Eliminates Range Anxiety“Green” Brighton Council’s Counter-Productive Electric Car “Incentives” “Maybe we should revert to the traditional meaning of “green” as immature, lacking experience, stupid” ***** out of 5 Blows Away Battery-Only Pretenders Hugely Expensive, Even After Official Handouts For – impressive high-tech green formula which works Against – pricey I was tempted to use the phrase “I’ve […]
All Tesla Range Data Assumes Constant 55 mph Model S Can Only Go Like A Supercar In Short Bursts? If Performance Unsustainable, Less Ambitious Cars Make Sense GENEVA, Switzerland – When the Tesla S goes on sale in Europe next year, you will be able to spot it easily because it will be the only […]
Battery Car Sales Barely Register, Hammered By Price, Range Anxiety Hybrids Will Be Most Important High Tech Sector Could Weird Little Renault Twizy Be Most Popular Electric Vehicle? “Why don’t manufacturers produce a cheap and cheerful improved golf-cart with no pretensions about being a car, with limited shopping or school-run capability?” “A gasoline hybrid would […]
Plug-In Hybrid Promises Economy, No Range Anxiety I’ve been driving the Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid here in Britain, a new high-technology car which will keep the number crunchers at the Nissan Renault alliance awake at night. Toyota hasn’t yet published the full specification of the car. That will happen when it is launched in the […]
VW Thinks Car Buyers Might Be Able To Rent Out Their Cars “Has there ever been a new technology so unappealing to the public that huge amounts of public money was needed to move it off the shelves, with curbs on the competition too?” COLOGNE, Germany – The battery-powered Nissan Leaf’s range is no longer an […]
Unreliable Range, No Environmental, Cost Or Efficiency Advantage Battery-Only Is Being Driven By Politics, Not Economics Expect increase in road side assistance calls, scary rise in accidents, more pedestrian deaths and squashed pets It’s nearly time to put up or shut up. At the end of September, battery-powered electric vehicles will the toast of the […]
No Range Anxiety, Just Pure Panic Terrific, Quiet Performance, But Don’t Stray On To The Motorway If Battery Cars Catch On, Beware Creeping Examples In Slow Lane rating * out of 5 Don’t Worry They Won’t, Until Range Doubled, Price Slashed. This week at the Geneva Car Show you will hear plenty of odes to the […]
Flexible, Green Plug-ins Should Make Battery-Only History Paris Electric Car Race Only 25 Miles That Should Ensure They All Make It To The End It’s a bit like those old Looney Tunes cartoons, when Road Runner races off a cliff and it takes a little while for gravity to establish its case against the horizontal […]
