December 2015 – the Little Green blog

Buy-to-Let – Disproportionately Vulnerable to Very Large Price Falls

19th December 201516th December 2015 by Chris

BofElogo The governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, has again expressed concerns about high levels of … …read more…

Nissan’s first range-extender EV is coming next year, and won’t be based on the Leaf

10th December 201510th December 2015 by Chris

Nissan may have been one of the first to offer a mass-production electric vehicle but not yet … …read more…

It’s a Year Already

8th December 20158th December 2015 by Chris

It was just before Christmas 2014 that I took delivery of my brand new Leaf. … …read more…

Buy-to-let ‘risks’ warning

23rd August 20162nd December 2015 by Chris

Buy-to-let ‘risks’ warning
Today Programme
BBC Radio 4

Sir Jon Cunliffe has also been on the Today … …read more…

Buy to Let and Help to Buy

23rd August 20161st December 2015 by Chris

Buy-to-let landlords and people buying second homes will soon have to pay more in stamp duty, the chancellor has announced.

From April 2016, those in … …read more…

Ecology : Electric Vehicles : Political notes and more

October 2015

Oslo, Norway’s capital, like most of the Scandinavian country’s cities and towns, boasts bus-lane access for electric vehicles (EVs), recharging stations aplenty, privileged parking, and toll-free travel for electric cars. The initiative began in the 1990s as an effort to cut pollution, congestion, and noise in urban centres; now its primary rationale is combating climate change. Today, Norway has the highest per capita number of all-electric [battery only] cars in the world: more than 100,000 in a country of 5.2 million people. Last year, EVs constituted nearly 40% of the nation’s newly registered passenger cars. Norway is the clear electric vehicle pacesetter in Europe, which now has about 500,000 electric vehicles.

And the Norwegian experiment shows every sign of accelerating. Earlier this year, Norway opened the world’s largest fast-charging station, which can charge up to 28 vehicles in about half an hour.

Hackney Council has installed the first publicly accessible on-street rapid charging posts for electrical vehicles in London, so increasing the charging options of EV users in the capital.
The three units, which are supplied by APT Technologies a leading innovator in EV charging solutions, are the very latest Tri-Rapid Chargers and are located in Shoreditch, Dalston and Hackney Central.

China leads the world in EV usage, with about 600,000 all-electric vehicles on its roads and an ambitious plan to deploy 5m EVs by 2020.

Wind power generates 140% of Denmark's electricity demand http://bit.ly/1IOI0jV
Unusually high winds allowed Denmark to meet all of its electricity needs – with plenty to spare for Germany, Norway and Sweden too

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Jan Oliff
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