Renault 5 named UK’s best-selling electric car
The Renault 5 tops charts in UK sales The Renault 5 has been named the best-selling electric car in the UK, topping figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) for July. The multi-award-winning supermini recorded 1,805 registrations, ahead of the Kia EV3 on 1,691 and the Jaecoo E5 on 1,291, in […]
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Elon Musk culls 14,000 jobs at Tesla due to fall in demand for electric cars
Tesla has reported its first fall in sales in almost four years Elon Musk has axed more than 10 per cent of the global Tesla workforce as the company struggles with falling sales. The electric car company, of which Musk is the CEO, is the world’s most valuable automaker and one of the most valuable […]
2 years ago
Tesla recalls more than 2m vehicles over warning light issue
The issue will be fixed with a software update Tesla is recalling almost all of the vehicles it has sold in the US due to an issue with warning lights on the cars’ panels. On Friday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced the recall of some 2.2 million vehicles because some of the warning […]
2 years ago
Electric cars’ value goes down by half after three years on the road
Researchers say electric cars are reaching ‘unsustainable levels of depreciation’ The value of electric cars depreciates by almost half after just three years on the road, according to research. AutoTrader, who carried out the research, said there were “unsustainable levels of depreciation” in the electric car market with prices of electric cars dropping 23pc in the […]
2 years ago
Man pleads with cops to force him off road after being ‘kidnapped’ by his electric car
‘I couldn’t even jump out – I was completely trapped inside the car’ A man says he was ”kidnapped” by his own runaway electric car – forcing him to dodge red lights and roundabouts and call police to ram it off the road. Brian Morrison says his new fully electric car, an MG ZS EV, […]
3 years ago
Lamborghini has sold its last ever gas-powered supercar
But the supercar isn’t about to lose any horsepower over the switch to electric Putting your foot on the gas is fastly becoming a redundant term with the maker of one of the world’s most loved supercars selling its last fully-gas powered models. Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann told the German newspaper Welt on Wednesday that […]
3 years ago