Sep 15, 2020 | BEV, Company Cars, PHEV
An employer wants to spend around £40k (before discount) on a car for an employee. What’s the cheapest option for both parties? If you can find one the answer, by a clear margin, is a fully electric company car. We’ve reviewed 3 similar cars, two BMW 3 series (a...
Sep 5, 2020 | BEV, Company Cars, Company Cars, PHEV
Read a “car crash” of an exchange on LinkedIn this morning between an advocate of EV and someone worried about the supply of Lithium (and presumably other materials) for batteries. It was all there, disagreement yes, but conflicting data presented as facts, emotion...
Aug 25, 2020 | BEV, Company Cars
This is our third post on the size of the UK car market and how it compares. This time we’re looking at Europe. Europe registered 15.75m cars in 2019 (up 1.1% from the 15.58 in 2018). Germany had the most registrations in 2019 at 3.61m (up 5% from 2018), the UK was...
Aug 18, 2020 | BEV, Company Cars, PHEV
I took this photo at the Geneva Motor-show a couple of years back. It’s the all electric Microbus that VW have been threatening to make for a couple of years now. We need cars like this. There’s something a little sad about EVs built to look like current petrols and...
Aug 12, 2020 | BEV, Company Cars, Company Cars
In this second post about the UK car market we’re sharing some stats about the size of the market, the percentage of BEVs registered, and how we compare to the rest of the world. China bought almost half of all the BEVs sold in the world in 2019, at 1.1m units....
Aug 6, 2020 | BEV, Company Cars
In the real world, is this one of the most environmentally friendly cars on sale in Europe? Ladies and Gentlemen; introducing the brand new 2020 Toyota Yaris Hybrid. With its new smaller but more powerful Lithium Ion battery pack, this “self-charging hybrid” emits...
