Fuel Price - Beat the hike » pilot http://fuelprice.co.uk Your information source for lowering motoring costs Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:30:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 en hourly 1 Plug-in hybrid car’s test drive http://fuelprice.co.uk/2009/02/05/plug-in-hybrid-cars-test-drive/ http://fuelprice.co.uk/2009/02/05/plug-in-hybrid-cars-test-drive/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:30:08 +0000 Terry http://www.fuelprice.co.uk/?p=38 Toyota engineer Gerald Killmann test drives the UK’s first petrol-electric car that can be plugged in at home.

The launch could mark a dramatic change in how drivers spend money on automotive “juice”, as the power generation industry – be they coal fired power stations such as Drax or nuclear power firms such as British Energy – enters the market.

Electricity company EDF Energy is erecting “juice points”, or electric charging points, across London.

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