Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Manufacturing/Plants , Opel , Europe/EU , Germany According to Alain Visser, Opel's head of sales and marketing, Opel needs a minicar to compete. However, developing a new minicar is a huge expense, and even though Opel has set aside €250 million for this car, the company would like a partner. It's not unusual: Ford and Fiat share the Fiat Panda / Fiat 500 / Ford Ka...
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What better way to get around town than in a small car. Easy to just jump in the car, nip down to your local supermarket to buy a loaf of bread, and a...
More wizardry from BMW. Their new 320d Efficient Dynamic can crack an amazing 68.9mpg and emit just 109g/km. Almost as clean and thrifty as a Citroen C1, the world's greenest 3-Series has a modified engine, higher rear axle ratio,...
Genuinely fun to drive Review Much midnight oil was burnt at Register Hardware while deciding just when and with what we should begin our Leccy Tech car tests. Try as we might, we just couldn't convince ourselves that battery powered quadbikes like the G-Wiz or Think City were the place to start. Nor could we rustle up much enthusiasm for third-party modifications like the Electric Car Corporation's...
This looks like an advertisement for Honda. At least they dont make the Austin Princess anymore. The 10 most reliable new cars 1. Honda Accord 98.5% 2. Honda Jazz (2008-present) 98.2% 3. Daihatsu Sirion 97.5% 4. Hyundai i30 96.8% 5. Ford Fiesta 96.2% 6. Honda Jazz (2002-2008) 95.9% 7. Honda Civic Hybrid 95.7% 8. Citroën C1 95.7% 9. Toyota Prius 95.0% 10. Mazda 3 94.4% The 10 least reliable new...
With any luck it'll soon become a regular feature. Each episode will see me reciting a work by one of my favourite poets as I cross the land by various vehicular means. That said, I'll leave you in the capable hands of John Keats - on the M62 in a Citroen C1.
Zipcar made an announcement earlier this month that it will be adding electric-vehicles to its fleet of car-sharing services. The two vehicles include the all-electric Citroen c1 and a plug-in hybrid Toyota Prius prototype. “Since early in this decade, Zipcar has been integrating alternative vehicles into the fleet — giving our members the opportunity to push [...]
Zipcar, Inc., the world's largest car sharing service, has announced its first Electric Vehicle Pod to be located behind Westminster City Hall, in London. The pod will include an electric version of the Citroen c1 and a plug-in hybrid Toyota Prius....
Car-Share Service Also Campaigns an EV in Its London Fleet Zipcar, the world's largest car-sharing service, is installing an electric-vehicle charging pod in central London , where it has launched a car-sharing club that will provide members Britain's largest group of shared hybrid vehicles. ---------- Toyota Prius is one of the hybrids in Zipcar fleet. ---------- Zipcar's central London club , started...
US-based car-share giant Zipcar Inc. has launched its first ever Electric Vehicle Pod , featuring an all-electric Citroen C1 and a Plug-In Toyota Prius. The vehicles, among the most efficient and technologically advanced on the road today, can be hired by the hour for a fraction of the cost of owning one. The company figures that EVs are ideally suited for early, large-scale use in Zipcar’s...
Car-sharing service Zipcar knows that plug-in hybrids are coming down the pipeline fast--witness Toyota's announcement this week that the plug-in Prius is due for release in 2012--and it's wasting no time in positioning itself for their arrival. The company launched its first all-electric car-share pod in central London this week, with a converted PHEV Prius and an all-electric Citroën C1 available...
EV'IE - click above to enlarge Zipcar is moving into the plug-in realm on the old continent this week with an announcement from London. Zipcar is adding two plug-in vehicles, a converted Toyota Prius PHEV and an all-electric Citroën C1, to the fleet the company operates in central London with the Westminster City Council. The C1 is not an official Citroën product but the EV'IE as converted...
The car-sharing service Zipcar has announced that it will add an electric vehicle pod in Cambridge, Mass., which will include an all-electric Citroen c1 and a plug-in hybrid Toyota Prius. Electric cars seem especially suited to Zipcar customers. The company...
The Peugeot 107, Citroen C1 and Toyota Aygo are all competitors for VW’s Up! but VW has priced the car at €9000. This price tag means that the sale of every car will result in substantial profits for the company. This model is slated as a replacement for the defunct Lupo model rather than the [...]
Volkswagen will be making a sizeable profit on each model sold of its soon-to-be-released city car, the Up!, according to Autocar sources. The Up! is being marketed as an alternative to the Peugeot 107, Citroen C1, and Toyota Aygo.
Volkswagen will be making a sizeable profit on each model sold of its soon-to-be-released city car, the Up!, according to Autocar sources. The Up! is being marketed as an alternative to the Peugeot 107, Citroen C1, and Toyota Aygo.
The latest Citroen C1 Splash, a special version of the best selling under 110g/km CO2 emitting car in Europe, will be introduced by Citroen. The car will come with extras such as air-conditioning, electric front windows and remote control central locking system including two new exclusive body colors of Lipizan White or metallic Electra Blue, custom-fitted colored door mirrors (the Lipizan white models
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Had a C 1 for 9 months great car average consumption 51.5 easy to park comfy on long journeys enjoyable to drive a total change from my previous carsBMW...
The French carmaker Citroen has unveiled the initial details of its updated C1 mini that will be available for sale across mainland Europe during the period November-December this year, depending on the market, and beginning in January 2009 in the UK. The Citroen C1 which is part of the Peugeot 107 and Toyota Aygo triplets has been given some minor styling modifications to the front end and specifically
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