What makes a star EV for MyUrbanCar? Our stars are not just great cars in their own right, they should be able to fit into your life & manage a range of supposed EV challenges like a weekend away or visiting friends...
Category - EV – Electric Vehicles
David Nicholson
Why the time has come to switch to electric cars..
Why switch to an electric car? You don’t need to be called Greta to know that if we let the Climate Emergency run out of control it will be a vastly bigger long term threat to the human race than Coronavirus. To...
How National Grid is cutting UK carbon emissions & preparing to power the switch to EVs
Robert Llewellyn has a relaxed but informative chat with James Kelloway, the Energy Intelligence Manager for for National Grid who supply our electricity in the UK. Published in summer 2020 Why we recommend watching In...
Getting local EV Public Charging right. Part 1- Cost
Getting acceptable cost and utilisation rates The conventional wisdom is that charging an electric car costs much less than running a car that burns petrol or diesel, but is that really the case? In this article we...
Longer Trips in electric cars
Doing longer trips in an EV Longer journeys are meant to be the achilles heel of EV’s but in reality having done medium distance trips, with the right EV, it just requires a slight adjustment to your trip plans. In fact...
Could Elon Musk learn something from a tiny Citroen EV?
OK so when you hear the suggestion that Tesla could learn something from the new Citroen Ami EV you may doubt my sanity. After all, it boasts looks that only its own mother could love while a tiny 5.5kWH battery still...
MyUrbanCar Top Tesla Model 3 tips for new UK owners
We think Tesla Model 3 is probably the best Tesla and probably the best EV. We’ve got some tips to help you make the most of it and find a way round its quirks General Tips Regenerative breaking Please please always set...
The EV is nearly ready to kill off the diesel van..nearly
It might seem a strange time for someone who hasn’t driven a van in decades to be predicting the end of the diesel van now. After all diesel van sales (lockdown aside) have hardly ever been higher with around 97%...
Clean disruption – why the economics of self driving EVs will replace the internal combustion engine private car
Why we recommend watching In this early 2020 video taken from a speech in North Carolina Tony Seba, an expert and author on clean disruption explains what is necessary for disruption and why self driving electric cars...
Batteries Video: (Tesla) Battery day is coming
Produced by Now you know Why we recommend watching Now you know is a youtube channel hosted by Zac & Jesse from the US. Strong enthusiasts for EV, and cleantech in general and Tesla in particular they are at their...