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Gavin Green on the world’s first good electric car

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Gavin Green, 09 August 2012 10:24

After more than 100 years of electric car dross, at last there’s a good one. The BMW i3, likely to go on sale late next year, is the first intelligently conceived electric car I have experienced. Rather than just a ‘normal’ car that is converted to run on electric power (step forward most EVs now on sale) or a ‘bespoke’ ...

Gavin Green on the hidden highlights of the BMW i3

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Gavin Green, 24 August 2011 09:30

Flew to Frankfurt a few weeks ago for the unveiling of the new BMW i electric cars, and very impressed I was too. Although still two years from production, the i3 (we’re told the concept is ‘very close’ to the showroom vehicle) is easily the most credible EV I have seen, not least because it has been conceived from scratch ...

Mini memories: a trans Australian Mini record

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Gavin Green, 18 September 2009 11:56

>> In the new November 2009 issue of CAR Magazine, executive editor Gavin Green writes about a seriously big adventure in a Mini: driving 4155 miles from Sydney on the east coast of Australia to Perth on the western seaboard via Ayers Rock and the middle of nowhere. See the full adventure – with 10 pages of amazing Mark Bramley ...

Why the Aston Martin Cygnet is wrong, by Gavin Green

Gavin Green, 02 July 2009 10:23

Not so many years ago, Silvio Berlusconi – entrepreneur, insurance tycoon, AC Milan owner, media magnate, alleged companion of teenage girls and part-time prime minister of Italy – suggested that the best way to sell more Fiats would be to rebrand them as Ferraris. This possibly explains why he never made it big in the car industry. Fiat and Ferrari ...

Why Toyota’s iQ doesn’t live up to the hype

Gavin Green, 20 March 2009 09:28

I love good small cars. A small, light, inexpensive car is the ultimate expression of the car engineer’s art. Just as the easiest car in the world to engineer is a Rolls-Royce because there are so few compromises and cost constraints – although that didn’t stop Maybach screwing it up – so the one that requires the most ingenuity, is ...

Why I bought a Peugeot 107. By Gavin Green

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Gavin Green, 14 July 2008 11:04

I have just bought a new car. The priorities were: low insurance category (to enable 18-year-old son to use it), fun to drive, small and easy to park, good fuel consumption (low CO2 band also helps avoid punitive residents parking charges from the People’s Environmental Paradise of Richmond-upon-Thames). We were after a sub-Fiesta sized car: the so-called ‘city car’ category. ...

Shocking safety in electric cars, by Gavin Green

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Gavin Green, 24 June 2008 08:59

News that there will be more recharging points dotted around London in the expectation of a boom in electric cars is, in theory, welcome. For once, a government or council is partly financing our fuel rather than taxing it. I just wish there was an electric car currently worth buying. The current top-selling UK electric vehicle, the G-Wiz, is of ...