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With a domestic charging point offered for free, UK drivers have even more reasons to purchase the Renault ZOE when it arrives on their market in June.

As soon as customers place their order for the ZOE, Renault will contact British Gas, the company responsible for supplying and installing the charger in the customer's home. The installation of the 32-amp single-wall box will take place roughly one month before the vehicle is delivered, ensuring everything is up and running by the time the ZOE arrives at its new home. 
 

Charlie Yaeger is 97 years old. He has been driving for more than 80 years. He has driven everything from a Ford Model T to Nissan Maxima to a 1916 Baker Electric.

CEO Carlos Ghosn says localization and lower costs will be key to Nissan’s leadership in China’s emerging electric car market. Ghosn, speaking at Kansai University amid a gathering of Nissan LEAF owners and students, told the Global Media Center that with China’s 2 million electric car goal for 2020, Nissan will do everything possible to be the EV leader.

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Nissan is a founding member of a pressure group that aims to speed up the electrification of an integrated transport system across Europe. 

The Renault ZOE is shown as instigating a revolution in a TV ad entitled "The fall of the wall". By showcasing the vehicle's lack of noise and emissions, the ad portrays the ZOE as a leader in the new era of electric mobility.

New York City is switching on to the benefits of electric vehicles. In his 12^th – and final – State of the City address, Mayor Michael Bloomberg pledged to make NYC a national leader in zero emission mobility with a number of EV-friendly proposals.

Among the plans are:

• A network of street-side fast chargers

Renowned pastry chef Pierre Hermé has found an unusual way to give people a taste for electric vehicles. To coincide with the Salon du Chocolat in Paris last year, the French pâtissier took up Renault's challenge to entirely cover a Twizy with his delicious macaroons.

A unique vehicle such as the all-electric Renault Twizy requires a unique method of production. At Renault's factory in Valladolid, Spain where the tandem two-seater is produced, operators assemble the Twizy without using robots or automated lines. 

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The Renault Twizy is an especially agile vehicle. Discover how one employee at Renault's Technocentre in Guyancourt (France) managed to drive all the way to his desk without ever getting out of the tandem two-seater!

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The city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil will this month become the latest city in the world to start operating a zero emission taxi fleet thanks to a three-way a partnership among the Rio de Janeiro City Government, Nissan in Brazil and Petrobras Distribuidora. In the first phase of the program, two100% electric Nissan LEAF taxis will be available in Rio. By the end of the year, 13 more units will be added to the fleet.

The first two Nissan LEAF taxis will be available at the Santos Dumont airport stand. Their batteries will be recharged at two Petrobras service stations at the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon and in the Barra da Tijuca area.