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How much did you pay the last time you took a car to be serviced at a main dealer? £200 or perhaps £300? How does £121 sound? That’s what I paid my local Renault dealer for the last annual service on my Fluence electric car – and even that was for the “big” service, which […]
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Electric cars are grabbing lots of headlines and most of the big awards at the moment. Jaguar, in particular, must surely be investing in a few extra trophy cabinets after harvesting dozens of gongs for the I-Pace, including the most prestigious, the 2019 European Car of the Year award, which it received on the eve […]
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Honda is back in the hybrid market. The vehicle for that return, if you will forgive the pun, is the new hybrid version of the companyís successful mid-sized CR-V SUV, and very good it is too. Honda launched its first hybrid twenty years ago, but the path from there to here has been quite […]
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What makes a car a classic? That may seem like a strange question to be asking when it comes to alternatively-fuelled vehicles, but it seems to me that many of the early hybrids and electrics are prime candidates for future collectibility ñ and itís not too soon to be thinking about it either. First, […]
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The modern electric car is ten years old, although thatís a matter of opinion and open to interpretation of course. Electric was a contender in the earliest days of motoring, before it lost out to gasoline-powered cars, and there have always been some niche electric vehicles such as milk floats. There have been a few […]