Freedom Day has come and gone, yet many of the nation’s workers have not left their home offices. The Government is no longer instructing us to work from home if we can, but ‘expects and recommends’ a gradual return over the summer. The truth is, many office workers do not want to go back at … Read more
Zoom launching raft of measures to lock in UK business customers as staff begin to head back into office By Alex Lawson, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 BST, 3 April 2021 | Updated: 22:06 BST, 3 April 2021 Zoom is launching a raft of measures to lock in UK business customers as staff begin … Read more
A hybrid plane designed by a British company will be ready for commercial flights in 2026 and it is hoped there will be a fleet of 300 operational by the end of the decade. Faradair, a company based in Cirencester, is working on its bio-electric aircraft (Beha) which will be capable of reaching speeds of … Read more
Plug-in hybrid electric cars can use four times more fuel than makers claim, costing owners an average of £462 per year more than expected, Which? has warned. The consumer watchdog tested 22 popular hybrid models over 62 miles (100km) and found that they had all been advertised with unrealistic fuel efficiency figures. On average, hybrid cars … Read more
Ford, the UK’s most popular car brand, has announced today that its entire passenger vehicle line-up in Europe will be electric or plug-in hybrid by mid-2026 and in 2030 will be all-electric only. The US brand’s statement of intent comes just days after Britain’s biggest car maker, Jaguar Land Rover, made its commitment to dump … Read more
British supercar firm McLaren today unleashed its first series-production 205mph electric-hybrid supercar, the Artura. Priced from £185,500, the two-seater super-lightweight plug-in hybrid will sprint from rest to 60mph in three seconds – and possibly fractionally less – subject to official validation. McLaren hailed it as the start of ‘a new chapter for the pioneering supercar … Read more
British supercar firm McLaren today unleashed its first series-production 205mph electric-hybrid supercar, the Artura. Priced from £185,500, the two-seater super-lightweight plug-in hybrid will sprint from rest to 60mph in three seconds – and possibly fractionally less – subject to official validation. McLaren hailed it as the start of ‘a new chapter for the pioneering supercar … Read more
Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) Also referred to as: Plug-in hybrids Banned in: 2035 Example models: Ford Kuga PHEV, Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV, Volkswagen Golf GTE, BMW 330e, Peugeot 508 PHEV. Plug-in Hybrids are seen as the stepping stone between petrol and diesel cars we’ve always known and battery electric vehicles. They use an internal combustion … Read more
The ban on the sale of petrol, diesel and hybrid cars is set to come sooner than planned, with reports suggesting a new deadline could be announced this week. All new cars with internal combustion engines – including hybrids – were due to be prohibited from sale in 2040, in accordance with the Government’s Clean … Read more
Thousands of recalled Ford Kuga hybrid cars to have faulty battery packs replaced after seven of the SUVs caught FIRE while charging Some 1,800 UK Puma PHEVs and 27,000 globally have been called back by Ford It says that ‘cell contamination in the drive battery system’ caused the issued UK models should be fixed by … Read more