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VW Sharan (2010/2011) teased

Volkswagen is teasing the 2010 Sharan ahead of a Geneva reveal Update 2/3/2010: VW has now revealed the 2010 Sharan at the Geneva Motor Show. Well, we say teased, but it’s an odd sort of tease. Rather like the even more low-key tease Porsche has done for the new 2010 Porsche Cayenne.

UK Government to add electric cars to its fleet – but don’t think the PM will be driving a Tesla Model S

The Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV – the sort of car the Government will acquire The roll-out of electric cars has not been an exactly overwhelming success, with even the Government’s £5,000 bribe to get you to go electric failing to kick start electric car sales in a meaningful way. So the Lib Dem bit of the coalition has decided that the Government should lead by example and have declared that the Government Car Service – which supplies cars for ministers and ‘government’ use – will start to acquire electric cars from this Autumn and, as part of the £5 million scheme, the wider public sector will be involved with council, police and NHS fleets looking seriously at EVs. But this scheme is aimed at the sorts of government cars that do the daily grind; ferrying junior ministers, getting staff to meetings and making deliveries in commercial vehicles.

Detroit designs the future

Every time I walk into the College for Creative Studies here in Detroit, I am completely blown away by the students' talent level. Recently I went to CCS, as we call it around here, for the Michelin Challenge Design. You can see the work here.