Electric Vehicles

[Western SMT]

http://www.roadtransport.com/Article...-included.html

[G-CPTN]

http://bioage.typepad.com/.shared/im...fedexmodec.png
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2008...express-o.html

[Western SMT]

Good links and it looks like what it is - a modern covered milkfloat.

[G-CPTN]

Website:- http://www.modeczev.com/

Brochure:- http://www.modeczev.com/files/Modec_...hure_A4_UK.pdf

[G-CPTN]

Smiths (Ford):-
http://www.smithelectricvehicles.com
http://www.smithelectricvehicles.com/casestudies.asp

[Western SMT]

BBC video -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7827486.stm

[G-CPTN]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ctric_vehicles

[Western SMT]

Story from 1915

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive...6E9C946496D6CF

[G-CPTN]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...ts/8026380.stm

http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/carbycar/index.htm?md=1527

http://news.idealo.co.uk/news/5729/e...n-c1-evie.html

http://www.theelectriccarcorporation.co.uk/index.php

Worth reading IMO - Honest John seems to put his finger on it though.

Someone converts a £6,000 Citroen C1 to electric power and charges an extra £11,000 for it?
At £6,000, or even £8,000, it might have made some sense.
At £16,850 a Honda Insight or Toyota Prius make a lot more sense.

[Western SMT]

The Government has no plans to reward the purchase of an electric car before 2011 when its £250 million electric car strategy comes into effect.

The strategy includes grants of up to £5,000 for buying an electric car from 2011. That could heavily affect the launch of the Citroën C1 ev’ie as customers could be deterred of the current price tag.

If and when you get a reward of £5,000 you would need to fund a gap of £3,500 compared to the non-electric C1 version. As with everything the prices will come down in time so the cost difference in the future may be similar to the petrol diesel difference of today.