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Fisker will show a new Karma-based shooting brake called Surf at the 2011 Frankfurt motor show. This is the first picture of the Fisker Surf, issued after CAR broke the news of the shooting brake earlier in the week. Customers of the Karma have been disappointed by the boot space – pinched by the bulky batteries and range-extender hardware – so ...

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Fisker to show Surf shooting brake at Frankfurt

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Tim Pollard, 05 September 2011 16:47

Peugeot EX1 concept (2010) sets 'Ring record

Mark Hamilton, 04 May 2011 16:26

Peugeot is not the first brand you'd suspect of testing at Germany's Nurburgring circuit. But not only has it taken its 2010 EX1 concept sports car to the infamous German circuit, but it's claimed a lap record. I'm sick of Nurburgring records. Why should I care about the Peugeot EX1? Because the EX1 concept car is an electric car. Under that rakish and ...

CAR interviews Renault’s electric car chief Thierry Koskas (2011)

Tim Pollard, 24 March 2011 10:50

CAR recently had dinner with the head of Renault’s electric car programme, Thierry Koskas. We grilled him on the finer points of Renault’s ambitious EV plans, asked him how on earth Renault will make money on it and probed him for the truth on the espionage scandal. Read on for our interview with Renault’s EV boss. CAR: You’ve just priced ...

Renault announces new six-year strategy

Tim Pollard, 10 February 2011 10:40

Renault today announced a new six-year strategy dubbed Renault 2016 – Drive the Change. A typically naff marketing-led title, but there’s some interesting detail on CEO Carlos Ghosn’s vision for Renault between now and 2016. Like how he wants to build 1.5 million electric cars in the next five years. How he’ll integrate Renault more closely with Nissans and Mercs. ...

Gordon Murray Design T27 crash tested

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Tim Pollard, 19 January 2011 17:21

The original Smart car probably did more than its fair share to persuade us that small cars needn't necessarily be unsafe. But now Gordon Murray is on the same mission: to persuade us that his titchy T27 city car is as safe as houses too. Gordon Murray Design has just issued its first crash test results, showing a T27 electric car ...

Details of UK's £5000 Plug-In Car Grants published

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Tim Pollard, 14 December 2010 10:20

The Government has signed off the Plug-In Car Grants, giving details of which electric cars qualify for the £5000 grants. The incentive means that cars such as the Vauxhall Ampera will cost £28,995, GM confirmed today. Transport secretary Philip Hammond and business minister Mark Prisk announced the scheme and confirmed which areas will qualify for the second round of Plugged-In Places funding ...

Nissan Leaf EV to cost £397 a month in UK

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Sarah-Jayne Harrison, 09 December 2010 09:36

Tax exempt, Congestion Charge free and costing buttons to fuel. That's the claim from Nissan, which today revealed its new Leaf electric car will be available to lease in the UK from £397 per month. Nissan will take a £3850 deposit for a personal contract purchase scheme and then charge £397 a month. It confirmed the Leaf will be exempt from road tax, ...

Gordon Murray Design's eight new models revealed

Ben Oliver, 17 August 2010 09:29

Legendary car engineer Gordon Murray has revealed exclusively to CAR Magazine that he is working on eight new cars. Seven are lightweight, low-emissions cars based on his radical new iStream manufacturing technique, and the last is a new supercar that he says will have 'an enormous amount in common' with his iconic McLaren F1.You read CAR's first full appraisal of ...

CAR video interview: Audi design chief Wolfgang Egger

Tim Pollard, 04 August 2010 09:37

Watch Wolfgang Egger, head of Audi group design, explain his latest designs to CAR Magazine in our new video interview below. We sat down one-to-one with Egger and asked him about the new Audi e-tron concept, A8, A1, those headlights and where exactly Audi design is heading.Be warned: it's quite a long video at 23 minutes long, but we judged ...

Infiniti’s new electric car (2012): all the latest news

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Ben Pulman, 30 July 2010 12:57

Within the next two years Infiniti will launch an electric vehicle based on Nissan’s Leaf. But it won’t just be a Nissan with a new nose; instead the Infiniti version will, according to the company’s project design director Takashi Nakajima, be a ‘luxury EV’ with completely unique styling and a performance boost to boot. So what can we expect from ...

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