Ad watchdog upholds complaints over ev makers’ range claims

PERFORMANCE: This is the manufacturer’s claimed acceleration time for a car, and is measured from 0-60mph or 0-62mph (0-100km/h), in seconds. ECONOMY/EMISSIONS/RANGE: Combined WLTP economy in miles pe

Four hundred and eighty-three miles. That makes this new Mercedes-Benz CLA the longest-range EV you can buy in the UK, surpassing the firm’s other streamlined saloon, the EQS. Even when you remove the

PERFORMANCE: This is the manufacturer’s claimed acceleration time for a car, and is measured from 0-60mph or 0-62mph (0-100km/h), in seconds. ECONOMY/EMISSIONS/RANGE: Combined WLTP economy in miles pe

PERFORMANCE: This is the manufacturer’s claimed acceleration time for a car, and is measured from 0-60mph or 0-62mph (0-100km/h), in seconds. ECONOMY/EMISSIONS/RANGE: Combined WLTP economy in miles pe

CHARGING is probably the most contentious aspect of electric motoring. When you hook up your EV to an ultra-rapid and powerful DC charger, why doesn’t it consistently hit the peak rate advertised? And

THIS is the ‘big one’ for Mercedes. Not in terms of size, because the CLA will, in effect, be the entry-level model for the firm’s future range, but in terms of impact, given that it’s the first of fo