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THE CITROËN BERLINGO VAN HAS HIT 50,000 SALES SINCE COVID CONTINUING TO BE BRITAIN’S FAVOURITE SMALL VAN

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  • Citroën Berlingo Van, now constructed within the UK on the all-electric Stellantis manufacturing unit in Ellesmere Port, is the UK’s greatest promoting small van in 2024, with 4,870 gross sales YTD
  • Citroën Berlingo Van, has bought 50,043 since COVID and has been the perfect promoting small van because the flip of the Twenties decade, the Ford Transit Connect is 2nd, with 46,137 gross sales, and the Peugeot Partner is 3rd, with 43,036 gross sales
  • Berlingo Van is a part of the brand new Citroën van vary that features Ami Cargo Solution, Berlingo Van, Dispatch and Relay – every mannequin within the vary is offered with an electrical variant
  • Ë-Berlingo Van provides as much as 205 miles of vary (WLTP Mixed cycle) and might cost from 0-80% in simply half-hour utilizing a 100kW fast charger

 

Citroën Berlingo Van has maintained its place as the perfect promoting small van within the UK this yr based on the newest registration figures printed by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). 

Berlingo Van leads the UK small van market yr up to now, 4,870  Berlingo Vans have been delivered throughout the nation in 2024. The success of Berlingo Van with Small and Medium sized enterprises (SMEs) has additionally seen it prime the UK small van gross sales charts, since 2020, with 50,043 gross sales, beating the Ford Transit Connect Van, with 46,317 gross sales and in 3rd is the Peugeot Partner Van, with 43,036 gross sales.

New Berlingo Van is a part of the not too long ago up to date Citroën van vary that features Ami Cargo resolution, Berlingo Van, Dispatch and Relay, which at the moment are open for orders. The complete vary is offered with a completely electrical variant, which signifies that Citroën now provides essentially the most complete electrical industrial automobile vary within the UK.

New Citroën ë-Berlingo Van is manufactured at Ellesmere Port, the UK’s first EV-only quantity manufacturing plant. From 2025, manufacturing of New ë-Dispatch can be manufactured at Luton, alongside continued manufacturing of the combustion van. Citroën, alongside its sister Stellantis manufacturers, is the one model to fabricate quantity mild industrial autos within the UK.

Greg Taylor, Managing Director Citroën UK, mentioned ‘The Berlingo Van continues to be a huge hit with SMEs across the country. Available as a fully-electric variant and now built in Britain, we continue our commitment to providing comfortable and practical vans to suit the needs of SMEs the country over. Our new van range, including Berlingo Van, demonstrates our commitment to providing a van that meets the needs of every user and a Citroën Retailer Network able to support their requirements’.

New Citroën Berlingo Van is offered from £19,255 (excl. VAT), with the absolutely electrical ë-Berlingo Van beginning at £25,455 (excl. VAT after Plug-in Van Grant).

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New Kia EV3 set for full reveal this month

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The new mannequin will sit alongside the Niro EV, which makes use of a multi-powertrain platform, and can function an oblique alternative for the Soul EV.

Unlike these fashions, the EV3 will use the Hyundai Motor Group’s bespoke electrical E-GMP platform, which ought to allow it to be provided with a variety of powertrains and battery sizes. As a end result, front-driven entry-level fashions could be anticipated to supply 215bhp.

The EV3 is probably going to make use of the model of the E-GMP platform beforehand confirmed for the EV5, a Volkswagen ID 4 rival that is resulting from arrive within the UK subsequent 12 months and has already been proven in manufacturing kind.

The platform makes use of a 400V electrical structure, in contrast with the 800V structure on the EV6 and EV9, which implies that charging speeds will probably be slower however will assist to cut back the prices.

Car review

Jeep Grand Cherokee

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The plug-in hybrid powertrain within the Grand Cherokee consists of a 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbo petrol engine making 270bhp and 295lb ft, two electrical motors and a 17.3kWh (15.0kWh usable) battery pack.

The predominant motor is a 134bhp, 195lb ft unit mounted inside the eight-speed computerized gearbox, between the clutch plates and the gears. This is what drives the automobile when you choose EV mode and permits gearchanges and swapping into the low set of ratios simply as if you have been driving on petrol.

Then there’s a 48V built-in starter-generator on the entrance of the engine, making 39bhp and 44lb ft. It’s  obtainable to spice up low-end torque however primarily to start out and cease the petrol engine and cost the battery when the automobile is stationary and in gear.

With a full battery, efficiency is powerful. With whole outputs of 375bhp and 470lb ft and the principle electrical motor pitching in from relaxation, the 0-62mph time is simply 6.3sec. Sometimes, although, the motor and petrol engine take a second to resolve who’s doing what, so the latter will spin up audibly, and typically on again roads it’s preferable – and never unsatisfying – to take management of the gears your self. If you do go for a full-on burst of acceleration, you’ll be able to anticipate pretty coarse engine noise too.

However, even with 1 / 4 cost within the battery, efficiency is degraded noticeably. The coarse four-cylinder turns into a relentless presence, revving excessive and infrequently, returning solely common efficiency and MPG figures within the low 20s. The gearbox turns into fairly clunky too.

Off-road notes

The Grand Cherokee’s off-road credentials are fairly spectacular, as you’d anticipate. On all variations besides the entry-level Limited, there’s air suspension as normal with 5 totally different peak settings and as much as 275mm of floor clearance. Its most strategy angle is 28.2deg, breakover angle 20.9deg and departure angle 30deg – much like the Discovery.

Jeep has a path score for its automobiles: the three-door Wrangler scores the utmost 10, the Grand Cherokee six or seven, relying on the variant. It’s additionally an affordable tow automobile, with a most braked trailer load of two.2 tonnes (2.3 tonnes for a drawbar trailer), however the Range Rover Sport PHEV and Mercedes GLE PHEV will each tow usefully extra.

Off street, it’s terrific. The pretty factor is which you can stick it in EV mode and do all of your driving that method. Because the motor is on the gearbox facet of the clutch, it pulls off extremely easily and with out hesitation, plus with all of its obtainable torque from relaxation.

And as with most correct 4x4s, you’ll in all probability run out of bravery – particularly at this value – earlier than it runs out of skill. We had it on a facet slope exhibiting greater than 30deg, and if there wasn’t a Jeep bod on standby telling me that was high-quality, we might have satisfied ourselves it was going to tip over. In different phrases, a winter shoot or the typical horse yard treacherousness are issues that the Grand Cherokee will deal with simply high-quality. 

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Mercedes-AMG CLE 53 cabriolet weapons for BMW M440i

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The cabriolet has additionally been given a raft of styling upgrades to match its AMG billing. Its flared entrance wheel arches accommodate a entrance monitor that is 58mm wider than the usual CLE’s and there may be an AMG-specific entrance grille, deeper entrance and rear bumpers, enlarged air intakes, quad exhausts and new alloy wheel designs – obtainable in 19in or 20in sizes.

Elsewhere, the automobile will get rear-wheel steering as customary, twin-chamber dampers configured to minimise physique roll and bigger brakes. An elective AMG efficiency package deal provides purple brake calipers, a drift mode, a ‘race start’ perform that lowers the 0-62mph time to 4.2sec, and specialised engine mounts for smoother efficiency. 

Specific to the cabriolet, the motive force can configure the automobile with Mercedes’ Aircap system, which makes use of a wind deflector to direct airflow away from the heads of the motive force and passenger.

The cloth roof will be raised or lowered in 20sec, and the automobile’s leather-trimmed seats include a coating that is mentioned to maintain them 12deg C cooler than its untreated equal when in direct daylight. As with the SL, it receives an 11.9in touchscreen, which will be adjusted between 12deg and 32deg of inclination from the vertical.

Mercedes has remained tight-lipped on pricing, however the coupé begins from £72,990 and we anticipate the cabriolet to command a premium of round £5000.

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What are the very best BMWs on sale?

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7. BMW 4 Series/i4

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It’s the decrease, wider, meaner, sleeker twin of the three Series, and one which polarises opinion like a lot of BMW’s designs as of late. 

Like the three Series, the 4 Series provides a alternative of mild-hybrid engines, together with a 2.0-litre petrol (codename B48) within the 420i and 430i, and a 3.0-litre straight six within the M440i, which is sweet for 369bhp and 0-62mph in 4.1sec. You may also step as much as the M4, which is as poised and directionally eager as you may think about. No diesels can be found: they have been dropped from the working in March 2023.

The electrical i4, in the meantime, is available in three flavours: eDrive35 (285 miles of vary), eDrive40 (365 miles), and M50 (318 miles). The latter produces 542bhp and a 0-62mph time to rival most M automobiles. Even the cooking model, the 35, does the dash in a Volkswagen Golf GTI-rivalling 6.6sec.

These powertrains complement a automobile with stiffened, higher dealing with poise than even the three Series, which is the best-handling govt automobile in its class. The automobile rises to the B-road problem with all of the composure however maybe barely much less rearward playfulness than you would possibly anticipate.

The cabin exudes a premium atmosphere, with simply sufficient trinketry and knurling to distinguish it from the three Series. It’s additionally very snug over lengthy distances, aided by a driving place that’s barely decrease than that of the three Series and an consideration to ergonomics that makes it one of many best possible interiors in its class.

It’s a little bit of a disgrace that it lacks the visible grace of its predecessors. But whereas the entrance grille (now a sufferer of countless clichés associated to Bugs Bunny) and squashed headlamps are a bit of tougher to abdomen, there’s no query that this automobile is as dynamically compelling as you’ll need. And then some.

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New scorching Alfa Giulia Quadrifoglio to concentrate on driver engagement

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“I don’t want to become an SUV brand even if the world is switching to SUVs,” Imparato added. The Giulia will reintroduce a number of design cues from historic Alfa Romeos, most notably together with the abrupt ‘Coda Tronca’ rear finish. Nonetheless, it should stay a totally fashionable proposition.

Design boss Alejandro Mesonero-Romano warned: “We have to be careful how much inspiration we take from the past. As designers, a little like chefs, the aim is to mix classic ingredients into a ‘new sauce’ that today’s generation will respond to.”

The new Giulia will substitute the present automotive on the road at Stellantis’s plant in Cassino, Italy, the place it should be a part of the following Alfa Romeo Stelvio and the Maserati Grecale.

A brand new Maserati Quattroporte, additionally primarily based on the STLA Large construction, had been scheduled to enter manufacturing at Cassino subsequent 12 months, however this has been postponed till 2028 for additional improvement and price reductions.

In the meantime, Alfa Romeo is ready to increase its line-up considerably with ambitions of worldwide progress. Its first series-production electrical automotive, the Milano SUV, is due in sellers in a matter of months, and the new-generation Stelvio will observe subsequent 12 months.

An electrical Porsche Cayenne rival is due in round 2027, and senior executives have prompt it might be joined by a number of area of interest fashions, following the launch later this 12 months of the £1.7 million, extremely restricted 33 Stradale supercar.

Space

This Telescope Will Search For The Ghostly Fingerprints Of Mysterious Dark Matter

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Stellar streams are lengthy, ribbon-like teams of stars that orbit round a galaxy corresponding to our Milky Way. These teams of stars all transfer collectively in lengthy, slender strains that type glittering arcs round a galaxy, typically containing whole plenty thousands and thousands of occasions the mass of the solar.

The streams are simply disrupted by gravitational results, to allow them to present the fingerprints of darkish matter by pointing to the place its gravity has disturbed the stream. Scientists know that darkish matter exists surrounding galaxies just like the Milky Way in a construction known as a halo, which comprises clumps of darkish matter. These clumps create gaps within the stellar streams which might be detectable by Rubin.

“Stellar streams are like strings of pearls, whose stars trace the path of the system’s orbit and have a shared history,” mentioned Jaclyn Jensen of the University of Victoria who will use Rubin knowledge for her analysis. “Using properties of these stars, we can determine information about their origins and what kind of interactions the stream may have experienced. If we find a pearl necklace with a few scattered pearls nearby, we can deduce that something may have come along and broken the string.”

It has been troublesome for astronomers to check these stellar streams earlier than as a result of there are such a lot of different stars within the Milky Way that it is robust to identify which specific stars are a part of a stream. So researchers will search for clues just like the movement of sure stars to see whether or not they’re transferring collectively as a part of a stream and can use Rubin’s ultraviolet capabilities to assist determine the actual stars they’re in search of.

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Everything We Know About SpaceX’s Futuristic New Space Suit

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The EVA’s helmet is 3D-printed and has particular padding parts that home communication mics and stress management valves. The new spacesuit comes with an upgraded visor that rotates and provides a wider area of view. The helmet additionally incorporates a particular show display (heads-up show) and a digital camera to indicate vital data like stress ranges contained in the spacesuit, temperature ranges, and humidity. Moreover, the corporate claims it reduces vibrant glare when astronauts are exterior the spacecraft performing spacewalks.

The exterior material options flame-resistant supplies, with Teflon material and Nomex enjoying a key position. Teflon materials had been additionally part of the spacesuits used for the Apollo missions. NASA’s model of the material is known as Beta Cloth, which is actually ultrafine glass filament used as yarn to make material after which coated with Teflon (polytetrafluoroethylene or PTFE). With a melting level of over 650 levels Centigrade, this materials provided thermal shielding and guarded towards harmful lunar mud for astronauts sporting the A7L house go well with for the Apollo missions.

Subsequent iterations noticed NASA utilizing new supplies like Kevlar, GORE-TEX, and Nomex. Nomex, which can also be utilized in SpaceX’s EVA spacesuit, is a vital aspect of firefighter fits for its flame resistance. Aside from being non-inflammable, Nomex can also be a preferred alternative for making spacesuits owing to its increased ranges of consolation and sturdiness. Notably, the go well with Neil Armstrong wore for his historic moonwalk had each Teflon and Nomex.

Motorcycles

All About The 2024 Yamaha YZF-R1 Motorcycle

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The very first thing that many who’re contemplating shopping for the brand new Yamaha YZF-R1 will need to know is how a lot it prices. Getting a shiny new bike is all effectively and good, but it surely’s necessary to know if the worth has gone up by a big quantity for the reason that earlier 12 months.

The 2024 YZF-R1 is presently listed to begin at $18,399. This is a $400 enhance on the 2023 mannequin which continues to be out there at $17,999, but it surely appears to be affordable when in comparison with the present market.

This worth is corresponding to the 2024 Suzuki GSX-R1000R which can promote for $18,499 and the BMW S 1000 RR which goes for $18,295. Suzuki and Yamaha have similarly specced street bikes, so it is sensible that they’d have related costs. These three are marginally undercut by the 2024 Honda CBR1000RR which has a base MSRP of $16,699, however all of those sports activities bikes are considerably costlier than the 2024 Kawasaki Ninja 1000SX ABS which prices a mere $13,699. This undoubtedly places Yamaha on the costlier finish of the spectrum, however not unreasonably so.

Energy

Can You Use A Brush On Solar Panels? Cleaning Dos And Don’ts

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If free dust, sand, or sediment has began to build up within the grooves and nooks of your photo voltaic panels, it could steadily start to impact their ability to function. Solar panels cannot obtain daylight very effectively if a layer of crud covers their reflective surfaces.

Since photo voltaic panels are sheer surfaces, a superb spray of water can loosen most surface-level contaminants. However, make certain that your photo voltaic panels are shut off and disconnected from the grid. Furthermore, it is essential to offer the panels time to chill down in order that you do not induce a temperature shock if you spray them. Once they’re prepared, get out a backyard hose, connect an adjustable sprayer, and provides the floor of the panels a mild misting. Take it gradual and regular, ensuring to get some water on as a lot of the panels’ floor space as doable.

After this, you should utilize a separate gadget, like a gallon sprayer, to use a cleansing resolution to the panels. This will assist to dissolve and loosen a number of the extra cussed contaminants. The neatest thing to make use of here’s a professional-grade photo voltaic panel cleansing resolution, which you will discover on Amazon for around $25. If you’ll be able to’t discover a pre-made resolution, you may make your individual by filling a bucket with water and dissolving a bar of delicate hand cleaning soap in it. Don’t use any intense, abrasive chemical substances, as they might trigger the panels to fray and erode.

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