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A girlfriend of mine had one and I remember driving it in the Alps. What a tough little car. The cooling belt broke and I used her belt as a makeshift replacement. That little car handled the mountain roads and the ride back down to Nice without complaining. Underpowered, maybe, but cheerful...

Sadly, I can't answer your UK-specific utility rates question, but I thought of another EV you could look into is the KIA Nero EV. It's got 240 miles of range and is around $40K in the US. I drove it and feel it's a good daily driver. The key thing is to see what kind of onboard charger you have...

Everyone is moving to oil-cooled electric motors these days. For the best battery energy density I'm aware of, Amprius has 450 kWh packs using silicon. It's not commercialized yet but it's a proven chemistry. These packs are tested in the wild as we speak. They are testing 500 kWh cells and...

Not sure I understand your reply. The electric motors in both cases are inside the wheel. Proterra is a bigger bus type of wheel. I'm not sure what they do now but at some point the inside part of the wheel was the stator and the outside the rotor. Micheline had an electric motor geared onto...

There are different ways of doing it. In hub is where the motor is connected to the hub directly and in wheel means connected to the wheel, mostly through a cog system. As far as exposed, there are electric motors made to handle military aircraft in desert operations. Depending on how good...

The great thing about in-wheel electric motors is that torque and horsepower can be adjusted on the fly without relying on braking any particular wheel. Since the battery packs are lower than gasoline engines and usually tanks, the CG is low and even with that unsprung weight, they handle like...