Chris Lilly (Zap-Map)

Reservations are now being taken by Honda from those buyers interested in the all-electric Honda e city car. A fee of £800 will get them priority status to order their Honda e later this year. Deliveries are set to start from spring...

The Mercedes Benz EQC is now available to order in the UK, with prices and specifications confirmed for the pure-electric SUV. Four trim levels are on offer, with an additional two special editions available at launch. Pricing starts from £65,640, though that...

Volkswagen has opened the order books for its ID. 3, with the pure-electric hatchback pitched as the next key chapter in the company’s history; as important for VW as the Beetle and Golf in the past. The UK will get the ID...

Sales of pure-electric vehicles continued to rise in April 2019, despite the UK car market as a whole down 4% on the previous year. Pure-EVs were up more than 63%, with 1,517 registrations in April, though plug-in hybrid vehicles didn’t fare as...

Rolec has launched a new EV charge point, designed for users who have or plan to have solar panels at their home. The WallPod:EV SolarCharge unit has two charging modes – Solar + Grid Charge, and Solar Only. The former uses power...

Hyundai has launched an updated version of its Ioniq, with improvements across the Hybrid, Plug-In Hybrid, and Electric models – in particular the latter. The Ioniq Electric now features a significantly larger battery capacity, up to 38.3 kWh from the out-going model’s...

The Tesla Model 3 has gone on sale in the UK, with prices starting at £38,900 for the company’s most compact model in Standard Range Plus specification. The entry level model has a range of 258 miles, which is an estimated WLTP...

Tesla has rolled out a series of upgrades for its Model S and Model X ranges, which include an increase in range by more than 10%, improved power and torque figures, and new adaptive suspension. Newly built models in the saloon and...

Jaguar’s I-Pace has won the World Car of the Year 2019 title, taking the overall prize from the Audi e-tron and the Volvo S60/V60. To have two pure-electric models in the last three says a lot about how quickly the electric car...

The UK’s first 350 kW ultra-rapid charge points have been opened today (Tuesday 16th April) in Sunderland by Fastned. Fastned’s new station has four 50 kW rapid charge points, plus two 175 kW points that are already enabled for 350 kW charging....