Indian Autos blog

The Reva/G-Wiz will be discontinued in UK this Autumn, GoinGreen, the exclusive importer of G-Wiz in UK, has revealed to AllCarsElectric. Rudi Schogger, managing director of GoinGreen – I am writing to announce the sale of the last new G-Wiz out of GoinGreen until Autumn 2011, as we have come to the end of the current stock. The G-Wiz will lose the distinction of being the only EV in Britain  [ Read More ]

This is what all of us here were waiting for after our brush with electric scooters last year- Lithium Ion technology. Subsequently came news, of Nissan’s affordable electric car which would also make use of Lithium Ion units.

It somewhat looks like a frog, goes like a snail and hasn’t impressed the English car buyers. We’re talking about the Reva Electric Vehicle, manufactured by the Bangalore based company Maini which sells it as the G-Wiz over there in the U.K. The 3-door hatchback designed as a city commuter car which qualifies for exemption from congestion charges in London due its zero emissions, has found a total of only  [ Read More ]

Fancy owning a slice of Top Gear history? OK, so it’s a particularly mangled, smashed-up slice. But a slice, nonetheless. This is the G-Wiz (known in India as the REVA) crashed last year, in Top Gear’s crash test. TG wanted to see if a driver could survive a 64kph smash in the G-Wiz. The result? Erm, just look at how it caved in – scary, eh? Anyway, since the test,  [ Read More ]