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MG Motor sets new monthly record
- 09/08/2021
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
MG Motor achieved a record month in July, taking nearly two per cent of the UK car market. The company’s year-to-date figures are now up 67.5%, making MG Motor the fastest growing mainstream brand in the industry. Commercial director Guy Pigounakis, said: “MG’s growth in July and year-to-date means we are [...] -
Drivers planning EV switch rises by a third
- 28/07/2021
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
New research has found that the number of drivers expecting their next car to be fully electric has risen by 32% in 12 months. A study for Kwik Fit revealed that 11% of drivers who are planning to change their car expect its replacement to be fully electric. This compares to eight per cent of drivers a year [...] -
Quarter of UK families to go electric
- 24/05/2021
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Research by Ofgem has found that one in four UK households plan to buy an electric car in the next five years. It has found that more than 6.5 million households plans to make the switch, which equates to 24% of all UK households. However, the research also found more than more than a third (38%) of households [...] -
Autonomous Tesla has arrived
- 15/10/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Tesla has launched a new software update for its vehicles, enabling the cars to have an ‘autopilot’ mode. While not fully autonomous, the new software update allows the Model S and new Model X to ‘automatically steer down the highway, change lanes, and adjust speed in response to traffic’. Other major [...] -
Tesla opens European factory
- 29/09/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, has opened the doors to the company’s first European factory in Tilburg in the Netherlands. The new 77,648sqm facility that sits near the Belgian border, will be assembling Tesla Model S cars destined for the UK and the rest of Europe, with the aim of improving waiting times for new [...] -
Bosch acquire battery tech for EV’s
- 17/09/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Bosch will debut a battery technology for electric cars that could be production-ready in as little as five years. In addition to its own development in the area of battery technology, Bosch now has crucial know-how in innovative solid-state cells for lithium batteries as well as exclusive patents, thanks to the [...] -
TESLA MODEL S SURPASS ONE BILLION ELECTRIC MILES
- 23/06/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Electric car company Tesla, has announced today that its total worldwide vehicle fleet have driven over a billion miles collectively. In just the three years since Model S hit the road, owners across the world have travelled the equivalent of over 4,000 trips to the moon, or almost 40,000 times around the Earth. By [...]
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