Renault adds new Venture Edition to the Zoe line-up

Europe’s best-selling electric car, the Renault Zoe, is now available with a new specification, available to order from mid-January 2021 from £28,495 after the Plug-in Car Grant (PiCG).

Gridserve opens first UK Electric Forecourt

Gridserve has announced that the UK’s first Electric Forecourt near Braintree, Essex, is open for business. The site is the first of over 100 Electric Forecourts® being built by Gridserve over the next five years. The company’s £1bn UK-wide programme aims to make EV driving “an enjoyable, ultra-convenient and stress-free experience”.

Low cost electricity for EV charging

Part of the electric car appeal, alongside the obvious eco credentials, the purchase grants, and the tax breaks, is the apparent low cost of electricity compared with highly taxed fossil fuels. If diesel was taxed at the same rate as on-road charging electricity, it would cost around one third of what it actually costs now! […]

The Heat Pump in Electric Cars

We’ve become familiar with the terminology climate control as applied to heating, cooling, and ventilation of car cabins, and we’re well aware that the heat, when needed, comes from engine heat, and that the cooling, again when needed, comes from a form of refrigeration. That inevitably uses power drawn from the engine to operate the […]

Bright Spark

If there’s one thing every motoring journalist dreads, it’s a request from a family member, friend or casual acquaintance for specific car buying advice. If things go wrong, you can be on the hook for a long time.   For years, I negotiated this particular minefield by telling people to get a Skoda Octavia. How […]