If you’re a regular visitor to www.aminorjourney.com you’ll know that I’ve ran stories on the Electric Car Corporation and their line of converted Citroen C1s, which they call the C1 “Ev’ie”. It all started back in April, when the Citroen Ev’ie jumped onto the market. The team behind the advertising campaign had used a sign-written petrol-powered ( Read more... )

For new electric vehicle owners, one of the biggest fears (at least at the moment with few charging stations publicly available) is running out of electricity when making a longer-than usual trip. For those of us who have been driving a plug in vehicle for some time the range anxiety is much less because we know the limits of our vehicles. However ( Read more... )

Renault France unveiled it’s new electric vehicle yestrday. Okay, so it’s only a prototype at the moment - but it’s an electric version (or Zero Emissions, as Renault like to say) of the new Renault Kangoo Be Bop

The Be Bop itself doesn’t immediately grab my attention. I’m not a fan of the MPV platform. Yes, they may be versatile, but they tend to ( Read more... )

And thus I will for my attacks on the Ev’ie electric Citroen C1 last week.

It appears that there is in fact a fully electric Ev’ie out on the streets of London. (Shame the DVLA still think it’s petrol, but still, it IS electric. Or certainly, it is now.


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Remember that new “Evie” Citroen C1 conversion I posted about seven hours ago? The one which was being formed and run by former Motor Industry execs?

The one which suddenly appeared on the radar in the past few days? The one we’ve not heard anything about until a huge press-launch yesterday?

The one with the photoshopped rear where an exhaust ( Read more... )

It wasn’t until I spent some time reading my .rss feeds today that I even heard of a new EV company which launched today. It almost seemed too good to be true. A London-based company, full of really creditable names from the Auto Industry, who are offering brand new, fully converted Citroen C1s. And at a price tag of £16,850 it’s actually not that ( Read more... )

I’d like to proudly announce that I’m going to become the regular Wednesday host of EVcast!

If you heard last week’s show you’ll have an idea of what is to come over the next few weeks and months, but hopefully tomorrow will be the second in a long-running series of Wednesday EVcasts, with yours truly hosting.


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This isn’t a post about electric cars but it is a post about a few interesting and exciting things happening to me in the world of EVs.

Firstly, as of today www.aminorjourney.com is featured on the EVDriven Website. The EVDriven Website is a selection of feeds from electric vehicle websites around the world. Neat eh? Don’t forget to drop by and say ( Read more... )

This one happened a while ago, but I didn’t actually get a chance to post about it until today, when I put two and two together to make six.

Until the end of 2008 the Nice Car Company were viewed by many as the rivals to Goingreen, the UK agent for the funny little Indian electric car, the Reva (or G-Wiz, as it’s known here).

The Nice Car company ( Read more... )

At a rather subdued Knockhill race-track in Scotland, UK Business Secretary Lord Mandelson and UK Transport Minister Geoff Hoon announced a plan to support Plug In vehicles, not only buying them but “Building them”.

Mr Hoon and Lord Mandelson also had the privaledge to take one of BMW’s Mini E around the Scottish track, publising the Government’s ( Read more... )