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Low-voltage electric-car subsidy

Posted by Paul Horrell at 12:25 pm on Thursday April 16, 2009
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So the UK Government is to give up to £5000 to each buyer of an electric car or plug-in hybrid. How kind of them. Or rather how kind of us, who pay the taxes that are being given away like this. It’s great for getting news headlines, but will it have much real effect?

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Beaten with the ugly stick

Posted by Paul Horrell at 12:38 pm on Wednesday January 14, 2009
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By half-way through day one at the Detroit Show I was in a cheery mood. In the past it’s been about enormo-SUVs, vehicles I can’t relate to. But this year it was about cars and I felt at home. Then I spent a couple of days staring at them, and my mood began to curdle. [...]

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