David NicholsonOur @rivergecko twitter feed includes some of the UK electric car news but is also Clean Tech – Climate change Tech – EVs – Renewable Energy including wind and solar – clean trains and boats – air pollution – divesting from fossil fuels
Kia EV6 vs Model Y – Has Tesla met its MATCH? https://youtu.be/FXMi5iKplZc
This video from the driver download does a very good job of comparing the pros and cons of the new Kia & Tesla Model Y. They will be quite close.. good news although Kia seem limited on production volume again!
New electric 2023 MINI Hatch spy pics
Good news-this new Mini is getting smaller & finally gets a new EV powertrain newer than the old i3’s system👍
Bad news is 🇬🇧 Oxford gets stuck building petrol ones while all Electric minis will all be built in China👎 https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/mini/mini/107999/new-all-electric-2023-mini-hatch-spied-snow
Ioniq 5 just as punchy in real life as in the launch pics. Pre-prod here, but first deliveries of finished car in late June (was only revealed in Feb).
Sad news this morning. The Duke of Edinburgh has died aged 99
Thoughts are with the Queen and the rest of the family who will miss him greatly
Quite a character and a great support to the Queen over so many decades as well
His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh has died, Buckingham Palace has announced https://www.itv.com/news/2021-04-09/his-royal-highness-the-duke-of-edinburgh-has-died-buckingham-palace-has-announced
New VW ID.4 EV advert in the US pokes fun at piston fuel burning (Subaru) drivers who pretend they care about nature or the environment https://youtu.be/X2ynLzoH6H0
shaun bailey’s latest campaign video is all about how expensive it is for him to drive from Brentwood in Essex into central London. as it should be, becuase we just spent £19 billion giving the town a direct Crossrail service
Like most BMW & Mercedes plugin models electric iX1 will lose boot space compared to piston, exhaust & fuel tank versions because their design philosophy is to put batteries where your luggage should be! Surely by now they should be able to package this like every other #EV
The pure-electric @BMW_UK iX1 has been snapped testing in disguise 📸
One of a raft of electric BMWs on the way soon, it'll join the i3, iX3, i4 and iX in the range 👉 http://drivelec.uk/3dHGG6B
VW will switch to mass-producing electric vehicles with bidirectional charging next year https://electrek.co/2021/04/06/vw-electric-vehicles-bi-directional-charging-next-year/ via @FredericLambert
Nissan has confirmed price reductions of both 40kWh and 62kWh versions of the widely popular Leaf electric vehicle of up to £5,265, depending on model. https://www.whichev.net/2021/04/07/nissan-drops-prices-of-leaf-by-up-to-5265/ #renewablenergy #evs #evcharging #electricvehicles
85% Plugin Electric Share In Norway – Combustion Falls Below 10% https://cleantechnica.com/2021/04/07/85-plugin-electric-share-in-norway-combustion-falls-below-10/
Think twice before buying big SUVs in crowded urban areas, says @racfoundation. @AAPresident @transenv @NewWeatherInst @_wearepossible https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56647128
Britain's electricity system 'greenest ever' over Easter
For a time on Easter monday low-carbon energy sources made up almost 80% of Britain's power.
There was no coal generation on the grid and just 10% of power was from gas plants, the operator added 👍 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56657299
In this week’s episode of automakers drop prices after reduced government incentives…
Skoda ENYAQ has 5 trims in between £34,495 and £34,995 😂😂
Tesla Model 3 got another end of quarter delivery 🚢 boost taking 4th place in sales chart ahead of Qashqai, 3 series & Golf
Tesla share 29.9% of 🇬🇧 march EV & 23.9% Q1 EV sales
89% of all Q1 Tesla sales were in March
🇬🇧 Car sales figures for March 2021
EV 7.7% / Q1 2021 7.5%
Diesel share still 19% but nearly half (43%) of cars burning the stinky fuel now come with an MHEV starter motor making the headline 10.8% diesel share increasingly meaningless
Plugin sales march 13.8% / Q1 13.8%
We have a new record for largest @Tesla charger location:
⚡️Harris Ranch between LA and SF
⚡️80 V3 Superchargers (in addition to existing stalls)
⚡️Solar canopies & battery storage
What kind of grid connection will it need, is that 24MW of peak power?
https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/supercharger-harris-ranch-ca-permit-filed-for-an-80-stall-expansion.224668/
#BMW still losing its way
Step 1- groundbreaking i3 on EV only architecture
Step 2- go back to EVs based on existing petrol & diesel cars
Step 3- new 2025 #EV architecture.. but designed to also have piston engines, fuel tanks, gearboxes & exhausts 😂🙄 https://www.autoblog.com/2021/03/29/bmw-neue-klasse-modular-platform-ev-ice/
Hard to spot the difference between an EQV & the diesel but if it has a green plate on it like one I saw heading to Heathrow last week then you’d certainly know if you hadn’t instinctively rolled up your windows & set ventilation to “recirculate”
No 💨💨💨 just ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Mercedes-Benz EQV 2021
At £70,000+ its no bargain but at last a Mercedes V class is available that won’t blanket everyone around it in a toxic cloud of diesel fumes on its way to and from the airport
Yes..the EQV is now electric, quieter & more refined https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/mercedes-benz/eqv/first-drives/mercedes-benz-eqv-2021-uk-review
🍃Clean air is one of the few silver linings of the pandemic.
Is it possible to achieve comparable levels of clean air without going back into lockdown?
https://www.transportenvironment.org/news/clean-air-possible-without-lockdowns-new-study-shows
This announcement from the courts was six years ago. Government was shaken, and scientists and campaigners thought we'd turned a corner. Six year later we're still waiting for the radical changes needed to address #airpollution. https://twitter.com/DrMariaNeira/status/1378939810992295936
UK Supreme Court orders Government to take “immediate action” on air pollution | ClientEarth https://www.clientearth.org//latest/latest-updates/news/uk-supreme-court-orders-government-to-take-immediate-action-on-air-pollution
