August 2016 – the Little Green blog

UK Families Pay Record Levels Inheritance Tax

5th January 201731st August 2016 by Jan Oliff

HMTreasuryLogo Figures released by HMRC today show that they collected a record £4.7 billion in Inheritance Tax (IHT) payments during … …read more…

BMW Project i20

5th January 201725th August 2016 by Chris

BMW is planning a major push into all-electric vehicles. Engineers in Munich are working on a program called Project i20, also known internally as … …read more…

Self Contained Power

5th January 201722nd August 2016 by Chris

Today I DutchWindmill received an e-mail offering me home power storage for £2,300 … …read more…

The new era of Porche

5th January 20172nd August 2016 by Chris

So, you are still not convinced that we are going all electric?
Motoring is entering such an exciting era – and now Portche … …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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