Green-Car-Guide Live! 2008
Oil is running out. Petrol and diesel prices are at an all-time high, and predicted to continue increasing. And we need to reduce our carbon emissions.
We’re in the middle of a huge quantum leap change in terms of how we look at the vehicles we drive.
Just two years ago, when Green-Car-Guide.com was launched, the motor industry and the media were still focusing on a vehicle’s speed and power. However we believed that people should instead focus more on how efficient a vehicle was. So our Green Car Guide revolved around the headline figures of miles per gallon and CO2 emissions.
Today our pioneering approach has proved visionary. Even though the need to reduce our emissions has been evident through extensive coverage of the issues surrounding climate change for the last few years, it’s only now that people are realising that we need to use less oil to power our vehicles as fuel prices seem to be escalating out of control.
So the idea behind Green-Car-Guide Live! 2008 was to provide a real solution at this time. People want progress and mobility, but we must also be sustainable.
So we believe that companies and private motorists should now only consider buying one type of vehicle – a green one. However until now, seeing the latest range of green vehicles all under one roof has been virtually impossible.
The aim of Green-Car-Guide Live! 2008 was to provide a solution to this by displaying a range of the latest energy-efficient vehicles that can help motorists and fleet operators save money on running costs.
Click links below to view all the vehicles on display
Click here to view a video montage
Click here to view a news bulletin
We’re in the middle of a huge quantum leap change in terms of how we look at the vehicles we drive.
Just two years ago, when Green-Car-Guide.com was launched, the motor industry and the media were still focusing on a vehicle’s speed and power. However we believed that people should instead focus more on how efficient a vehicle was. So our Green Car Guide revolved around the headline figures of miles per gallon and CO2 emissions.
Today our pioneering approach has proved visionary. Even though the need to reduce our emissions has been evident through extensive coverage of the issues surrounding climate change for the last few years, it’s only now that people are realising that we need to use less oil to power our vehicles as fuel prices seem to be escalating out of control.
So the idea behind Green-Car-Guide Live! 2008 was to provide a real solution at this time. People want progress and mobility, but we must also be sustainable.
So we believe that companies and private motorists should now only consider buying one type of vehicle – a green one. However until now, seeing the latest range of green vehicles all under one roof has been virtually impossible.
The aim of Green-Car-Guide Live! 2008 was to provide a solution to this by displaying a range of the latest energy-efficient vehicles that can help motorists and fleet operators save money on running costs.
Click links below to view all the vehicles on display
Click here to view a video montage
Click here to view a news bulletin
Smith Electric Vehicles Edison Electric 'Transit' Van
- By Green Car Guide
- Published 16/06/2008
- Green-Car-Guide Live! 2008
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Stand 36Smith Electric Vehicles is the world’s largest manufacturer of zero emission vans and trucks. The company produces a range of commercial electric vehicles with Gross Vehicle Weights of between 2,300kg and 13,000kg.
ZEV Ltd Peugeot E7 Electric Taxi
- By Green Car Guide
- Published 16/06/2008
- Green-Car-Guide Live! 2008
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Stand 39ZEV is a new and innovative vehicle manufacturer dedicated to reducing environmental harm by bringing practical and reliable Zero Emission Vehicles to market.
ZEV Ltd Peugeot Electric Tepee
- By Green Car Guide
- Published 16/06/2008
- Green-Car-Guide Live! 2008
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Stand 40 ZEV’s innovative new range of vehicles includes goods vans and passenger vehicles that are ideal for daily working life in busy town or city centres.
Clean Air Power Gas Dual Fuel HGV
- By Green Car Guide
- Published 16/06/2008
- Green-Car-Guide Live! 2008
- Unrated
Stand 35This truck uses gas to significantly cut fuel bills, a key issue in the haulage industry.
Volkswagen Caddy EcoFuel Van
- By Green Car Guide
- Published 16/06/2008
- Green-Car-Guide Live! 2008
- Unrated
Stand 34Factory-built by Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles and aimed at “back to base” fleets, the Caddy EcoFuel offers the exciting opportunity to operate on biomethane (also known as biogas) extracted from non-fossil sources including landfill and sewage treatment works.
Mega Electric Van
- By Green Car Guide
- Published 16/06/2008
- Green-Car-Guide Live! 2008
- Unrated
Stand 26CLEAN - GREEN - SAFE - QUIET - ECONOMIC
MST Hybrid Land Rover Technology Demonstrator
- By Green Car Guide
- Published 16/06/2008
- Green-Car-Guide Live! 2008
- Unrated
Stand 25Parallel hybrid drive integrated into an existing Land Rover vehicle transmission.
Connaught
- By Green Car Guide
- Published 16/06/2008
- Green-Car-Guide Live! 2008
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Stand 30Connaught Engineering, now based in South Wales, produces the world’s first retro fit Hybrid system designed for the LCV market.
Green Motion Vehicle Rental
- By Green Car Guide
- Published 16/06/2008
- Green-Car-Guide Live! 2008
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Stand 28In 2005, Richard Lowden, founder of Green Motion Vehicle Rental, identified the fact that no vehicle rental companies catered for the ever-increasing demand for eco-friendly and fuel-efficient vehicles for hire.
Q8Oils
- By Green Car Guide
- Published 16/06/2008
- Green-Car-Guide Live! 2008
- Unrated
Stand 38Q8Oils blends and supplies lubricants to industry, the automotive sector and for a range of specialist applications.


