A surprising look at online cruising regarding electric vehicles caught my eye. It’s a colorful map revealing the electric car interests of people in different states. The map shows the searches people in different states most frequently conduct for specific electric car models.
Although the electric BMW i3 seems to have the best maintenance schedule, Britain’s most affordable electric vehicle is the Citroen C-Zero, according to automotive data specialist HPI.
Vauxhall might not be on everyone’s lips in the US, but in the UK it’s an everyday affair. The Opel Corsa was reworked by Vauxhall when GM owned all companies, but is now part of Groupe PSA.
It was with a mixture of anxiety, and excitement, that I realised, about three years ago, that used EVs, were now available to buy, at an affordable price, and, which would serve my purposes. At the time, I was not totally sure that an EV would really suit me, and be practical, so, I was reticent to spend much money in buying one.
Daimler’s little Smart ED, the electric version of the Smart car, is now the only version of the car in the US. Today, the ED goes electric-only in Europe as well.
Not that long ago, only a few electric cars were on the market. Nowadays, there are a few dozen. We certainly have a few favorites here on CleanTechnica, but every plug-in car really has its own selling points. I’m sure I don’t have a comprehensive list of these in my head, and many of the points are definitely as subjective as opinions about music or movies, but below are many of my thoughts on why I’d recommend various plug-in models.
As the electric vehicle (EV) sector rapidly continues to expand, data experts cap hpi have looked at the total cost of ownership (TCO) to acknowledge the electric cars with the lowest motoring costs in the UK. Cap hpi examined used EVs for this, first posing the question, “Once all the servicing, fuel and other motoring costs are taken into account, which EV cars perform the best?” The following are the cheapest electric cars to run in the UK.
The Mitsubishi i-MiEV is no longer being sold in the US. The electric car first mass-produced and sold to the open public in the country — yes, even before the Nissan LEAF — is retiring after almost a decade running.
There have now been more than 480,000 plug-in electric vehicles sold worldwide by the Renault-Nissan Alliance, as of the end of the first half of 2017, going by a new press release from the Alliance.
How much range do people need? Various studies have jumped into this topic, but I don’t recall seeing anyone survey electric car drivers themselves. So, in our new 93-page electric car driver report, we asked different types of EV drivers across two continents what their range requirements and expectations were for their next EVs.
