Tag: Electric Car

Drivers of electric cars are being asked to pay more than twice as much for insurance as those who own petrol-fuelled models as EV premiums surge 50% in a year, data have revealed.

Electric vehicles will never dominate the market, Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda has said, and will likely peak at under 30%, in the latest sign that car companies are backing away from the troubled technology.

Owners of electric cars have been warned to keep them charged overnight and warm them before use to avoid getting caught short in the freezing temperatures, as unchargeable Teslas were abandoned in icy Chicago.

Hertz has announced it’s going to take a $245 million hit as it offloads 20,000 EVs because too few people want to rent them and goes back to petrol.

Audi will hit the brakes on its rollout of electric car models as consumer demand plummets in the face of high prices compared to petrol models.

Rishi Sunak has suffered one of the biggest rebellions of his premiership as dozens of Tory MPs voted against his Net Zero plans, forcing him to rely on Labour votes to push through his electric car quotas.

Once you include the extraordinary cost of the half-ton battery, electric vehicles cost far more per mile to run than petrol vehicles, says Mark Ellse.

Was the Luton airport fire caused by an electric vehicle? A video of the fire appears to show a Range Rover Evoque ablaze on the passenger side at the front – where hybrid models locate the battery.

Car park spaces should become wider and burning electric cars dunked in baths of water, under proposed Government guidelines to prevent battery fires spreading out of control.

"The idea that Net Zero can be achieved by any means short of a command economy combined with a drastic decline in standards of living is a blatant falsehood," says Cambridge's Professor Michael Kelly. And for what?