Posted by Paul Horrell
at 12:25 pm on Thursday April 16, 2009

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?
Continue reading Low-voltage electric-car subsidy
TAGS// Ampera, diesel, electric vehicles, Government, Mini E, Mitsubishi i, Nissan, petrol price, plug-in hybrid, Prius, Renault, Smart, subsidy, tax
Posted by Paul Horrell
at 12:38 pm on Wednesday January 14, 2009

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. […]
Continue reading Beaten with the ugly stick
TAGS// Audi, Detroit show, Fisker, Ford, Hyundai, Lexus, Prius, Sportback, Taurus, Toyota, Volvo, VW
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