The new Vauxhall Ampera Hybrid

Vauxhall may not always be the most glamorous of names in the car industry, but its new Ampera really has got people talking about the company – and rightly so. This model really does promise to bring about a real revolution in ultra-economical motoring, and as...

Electric cars and the heat of technology

When you first start driving an electric car, one of the biggest adjustments you have to make is with the heating. While it’s an equal pain to scrape ice from any kind of car, once a combustion engine is running it soon warms up. Electric cars, by contrast, won’t warm...