delft-environment.com » electric cars http://www.delft-environment.com Save Energy, Go Green Thu, 12 May 2011 15:17:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 An Electric Sports Car? http://www.delft-environment.com/an-electric-sports-car/57 http://www.delft-environment.com/an-electric-sports-car/57#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:39:07 +0000 Karen http://www.delft-environment.com/?p=57 Many car enthusiasts don’t want to move to electric cars or ones fuels by liquid nitrogen. Mainly due to the lack of performance with speed, acceleration and that thing know an umph many are put off by leaving petrol powered cars!

But there is an alternative called the Tesla Roadster. The car is powered by batteries similar to the ones found in your laptop. It means that it has a greater range and the speeds and acceleration match many well know sports cars.

The only problem is the range isn’t great, with combination of charging time it would mean that it could take a few days to drive from the bottom of the UK to the top of Scotland.

]]> http://www.delft-environment.com/an-electric-sports-car/57/feed 0 Britain Looking to be Electric Car Producing Capital of Europe http://www.delft-environment.com/britain-looking-to-be-electric-car-producing-capital-of-europe/11 http://www.delft-environment.com/britain-looking-to-be-electric-car-producing-capital-of-europe/11#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:36:15 +0000 Karen http://www.delft-environment.com/?p=11 electric-car

Nissan have announced plans to build a new factory in Sunderland dedicated to the production of batteries for electric cars. Up to 350 new jobs should be created.

In addition Nissan is looking to build a new plant in 2012 for the production of electric cars which will be situated nearby.

Toyota have also announced plans to start building their hybrid Auris at their manufacturing plant in Derbyshire next year.

More potential good news could come from Vauxhall who are waiting for the go ahead to start building their new Ampera saloon at their Ellesmere Port plant in Mersyside.

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