Tagged BMW i3

A family-oriented motoring trip around the UK visiting a range of ecological and heritage sites to help promote the use and practicability of electric cars in the UK. Lucy Rigley won the Motor-Vision Awards...

Is electric car design holding back the growth of the EV market? There are many reasons why electric cars haven’t become mainstream yet; they’re expensive, range can be limited, there’s not enough ch...

The BMW i3 only has 2 downfalls, the rest is amazing! You may think of the BMW i3 as just another ugly electric car, but you’re wrong. This car is so much more than the ugly duckling it appears to be. Despit...

No matter how hard we try to ignore it, electric cars are quickly becoming the future of to motoring world. With the government giving out incentives like no tomorrow and manufacturers slowly phasing into the e...

It’s that time of year when all the ‘best of’ lists flood the internet and over the next few days, Motor-Vision will be doing the same, naming and shaming the finest and most horrendous cars of 2017. T...

A common belief in the world of cars is that more noise = more power. Today, you're going to find out exactly why that is not true, with various examples that support that the statement is nothing more than a m...

The arrival of the BMW i3 in 2013 was a landmark moment for not just the German carmaker but the entire automotive industry. Before this battery-powered hatchback, electric cars were widely seen as a joke, a...

April 2017 marked the introduction of a new road tax system. Previously, any car that emitted 100g/km of CO2 or less qualified for free road tax (or ‘vehicle excise duty’ (VED) as it is officially known). ...

What’s the best car to hit showrooms in the last year or so? It’s a question that is asked every October when the longlist for the World Car of the Year awards is published. You’ll find all the first s...

It seems that pretty much everything with wheels is going electric recently and the plug-in revolution continues  through the bike market with this: the Vespa Elettrica. To be honest we’ve had electri...

Ever since Toyota set the ball rolling with the Prius in 1997, hybrid cars have grown in popularity to the point that you can’t go half a mile without seeing one of these part-electric cars. Every carmaker...

Electric cars have gone from a peculiar novelty to an everyday part of Britain’s motoring landscape in a few short years. The arrival of the Nissan Leaf in 2011 was a landmark moment for electric vehicles ...

There is no question that electric cars are the future as fossil fuel deposits slowly start to decline and global warming becomes more apparent. Many car manufacturers are starting to produce their own electric...

BMW's new approach to sustainable vehicles has seen its i3 model put on display at the LCV2013 event at Millbrook, before the car prepares for a wider public release at the Frankfurt Motor Show. According to t...