A used Renault Zoe makes an intriguing purchase. After all, while Tesla has been hogging most of the electric car limelight, since 2013 – and with considerably less fanfare – Renault has brought zero emissions motoring to the masses in the form of its Clio-sized and fully electric Zoe five-door hatchback.
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Why I Bought a Used BMW i3: Long term test of a 2015 i3 REX
About a year ago I wrote a story for the CarGurus blog about how the BMW i3 was somewhat like a reincarnation of the Audi A2. Perhaps it isn’t surprising then, that when time came to replace my own A2 that it was the BMW that got the nod.
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The louder Porsche and Tesla squabble about drag race figures and lap times, the more important it is to remember how meaningless all that stuff is.
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While the logic behind plug-in hybrid cars is sound, it is a technology that has endured a rocky ride of late. For that you can primarily blame the removal in 2018 of the Government’s plug-in car grant for anything other than pure EVs, which makes every new plug-in hybrid £2,500 more expensive to buy than it would have been when the grant was in place.
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In many ways, the new Nissan Leaf e+ with its 239-mile range on the WLTP Combined cycle neatly summarises both the advantages and the advances tied up with electric motoring. On the advantages front it has a drivetrain that no petrol or diesel engine can match for response and refinement, and so long as you have the means to recharge it at home or at work, running costs can be tiny.
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