Our friends over at Transport & Environment (T&E) are concerned that the UK is taking its electric vehicle production sector for granted and not doing enough to retain its EV production leadership. According to the organization, 25% of the EVs produced in Europe were produced in the UK in 2018. … [continued]
The Vauxhall Mokka-e and Vauxhall Vivaro-e Life just got price reductions in the UK. The UK government has revised its policy supporting electric vehicle purchases. Well, it has reduced that support. The new policy does two core things: 1) it drops the amount of the grant from £3,000 to £2,500, … [continued]
As the electric vehicle transition speeds up, you see higher EV market share, more EV charging station deployment, and bigger EV fleet orders. In that vein, we’ve got news this week of the UK’s largest commercial EV order to date. British Gas, the largest energy and home services company in … [continued]
The best way to get people to buy electric cars has long been clear — let them drive one. And the more time they have in the seat, the better.
The Vauxhall Mokka-e (aka Opel Mokka-e), as we’ve written before, is one of the more interesting and compelling new electric vehicles in Europe (it’s not available beyond Europe).
The second largest fleet operator in the UK, Openreach, has decided that the time is now to go electric. It just ordered 270 fully electric Vivaro-e vans and 9 Corsa-e cars.
The Italian government is preparing new fiscal measures to sustain the economic recovery, following months of lockdown at the peak of the coronavirus pandemic. Like in many other countries, particularly so in Europe, economic stimulus is being directed preferentially to a sustainable recovery, especially in the transport and construction industries. As part of proposed new measures, current incentives to low emission vehicles are set to be increased by at least 50% from August for the rest of the year, to levels aligned to similar policies recently adopted in countries like France and Germany.
Opel will begin taking orders for its new Vivaro-e electric delivery van in June for fall delivery. A study by the City of London finds electric van operating expenses are 75% less than diesel vans.
FCA CEO Mike Manley says his company may be interested in purchasing rolling chassis, known as skateboards, from Tesla to jumpstart its electric car ambitions, but has anyone told Elon?
This article is about the new Vauxhall Corsa-e, which can be reserved now for delivery in early 2020. The new e-Corsa has a 50kWh battery and 200+ miles of range.
