Issue 411 of DieselCar & EcoCar Magazine goes on sale this Friday!

After a significant pause in new debuts, DS Automobiles took the wraps off its brand-new DS 4 this month, and what a looker it is.

Hyundai i10 N-Line 1.0 T-GDi

With car makers focusing ever more carefully on costs, the viability of offering city cars comes into question. While some have exited the market altogether, others have rationalised their ranges. In the past, buyers often had a choice of performance-led pint-sized pocket rockets, but that sub-segment has all but dried up, except Volkswagen’s up! GTI. […]

Hyundai joins IONITY charging network

Hyundai Motor Group has joined IONITY, Europe’s leading high-power charging network, as a strategic partner and shareholder. Hyundai Motor Group – including Kia and Hyundai brands – says that through its participation in this joint venture, it will drive the expansion of the high-power charging network along Europe’s highways, promoting the further adoption of zero-emission mobility.

Police Scotland goes electric with Hyundai

Hyundai Motor UK has won an initial contract to supply about 180 Kona Electric 64kWh vehicles to Police Scotland. The agreement supports Police Scotland’s ambition to establish the first blue light, ultra-low emission vehicle fleet in the UK while making a significant contribution towards the Scottish Government’s legally binding target to cut greenhouse gases to net-zero by 2045.

Bright Spark

Hyundai has made a lot of the running in green cars in the last few years. It has been catching up with Toyota in hybrids, and Nissan and Renault in electrics, and in some areas, it has been nosing ahead. One of those areas is efficiency, with Hyundai apparently being capable of squeezing more miles […]