What’s your car’s top speed? 100mph? 150? Maybe 180-ish, at a push? How about in reverse? Every driver’s done some daring corner reverses in their time, but that’s probably nothing compared to what Nissan’s just put its electric-powered Leaf through. Take a look after the break to see the world’s fastest (reversing) car. Read more
Hertz electric car rental kicks off in London today. Hertz began the Hertz Connect service in New York last year but now Londoners can join with the fun with a fleet of electric vehicles on offer with the iMieV, Nissan Leaf and Renault Kangoo all available for hire.
We were pretty taken with the Nissan Leaf when we got our hands on it before and the Hertz hourly rental rate could be a great way for you to get the answers to all your electric car queries. Click through for details…
London has 16 charging stations for electric vehicles so you should be able to buzz around without running out of juice. The Connect services costs £50 per year to join with vehicles available from £5 an hour. If you try out Hertz Connect’s electric car rental offer, drop us a line and let us know how you get on.
Out today | From £50 + £5 per hour | Hertz
A Porsche Boxster E electric has been outed but it won’t be coming to the roads just yet. Porsche outed three electric prototypes in Stuggart as a teaser of its future plans…
Electric cars (like the Nissan Leaf) have one big problem right now – they need plenty of places to charge and we don’t have the infrastructure now. New Zealand firm Halo IPT plans to counteract that using the principle that you can charge a vehicle using electromagnetic fields – it’s Powermat and the Palm Pre charger meets Scalextric…
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Doing its bit for the environment Nissan is soon to release the Nissan Leaf – an all-electric zero emissions producing city car. If you’ve already seen our hands-on of the Nissan Leaf you’ll know we were pretty taken with it. Read on to see why, and have a peep at our hands-on test drive.
The week has whizzed by. As usual we’ve had hands-on with plenty of new kit to get excited about. Missed any of it? Don’t worry, you can catch up with it all right here in this week’s edition of Tech Week In Photos, where we round-up all the best hands-on photos to hit Electricpig this week.
