News From Liberty Electric Cars

Secrets of the Liberty e-Range revealed!

16th December 2011

Eyes Only, a service that connects luxury brands with people that will fall in love with them reveals the secrets of the Liberty e-Range… Read more at http://ow.ly/7WypK.

Liberty Chairman Barry Shrier key speaker at Corporate Finance Forum

11th October 2011

The event, which was organized by the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment where leaders of the Cleantech industry discussed Clean Tech new technology and related business models that offer competitive returns for investors and customers, while reducing costs, inputs, energy consumption, waste and environmental pollution.

To obtain details about the presentation, please contact our Marketing Team

E-Range featured in How To Spend It

1st October 2011

How To Spend it, the UK’s leading luxury lifestyle magazine published by the Financial Times, features the Liberty E-Range in its October issue. Read the article on howtospendit.com...

Liberty Electric Cars launches Liberty E-Care

22nd August 2011

Liberty Electric Cars is introducing a pioneering after sales support programme for the increasing number of electric vehicles (EVs) on European roads. Recognising the special skills, knowledge and equipment required to service and support EVs, Liberty E-Care has been created to provide independent, highly qualified advice to businesses and individuals with electric vehicles.

In Liberty’s fully equipped Coventry and London workshops, the Liberty’s E-Care team can carry out all major servicing and repair work on electric vehicles whether the customer requires a full service, fault diagnostics or mechanical repairs. In addition, Liberty carry stocks of and are able to source a comprehensive range of parts and accessories to help maintain and customise vehicles by using genuine original equipment parts, to ensure the vehicle remains in top condition and does not loose its value.

BBC News meets Liberty MD Ian Hobday

23rd June 2011

BBC News meets Liberty Electric Cars’ Managing Director Ian Hobday and reports on the world’s first luxury zero emission 4x4 electric vehicle. Read more on the BBC…

CEO Barry Shrier presents Liberty’s new drive train technology

8th June 2011

CEO Barry Shrier presents Liberty’s new drive train technology at the third Electric Vehicle Congress in Bonn, Germany. Read the article on Wattgehtab News...

Ex Modec engineering team joins forces with Liberty Electric Cars creating one of the world’s leading EV technology centers

1st June 2011

Liberty Electric Cars has been able to secure the entire engineering team formerly employed at Modec — the Coventry based electric commercial vehicle manufacturer which entered administration in March of this year. With this move, the company has reinforced its engineering team and has now one of the most experienced teams in EV technology in the world. The 12 highly skilled experts count some 200 years of automotive engineering experience and in particular 70 years of experience in EV technology. This unique team of engineers have created EVs that have driven over 2,500,000 miles — the greatest distance and thus best experience of any electric commercial vehicle team in the world.

The company’s engineering activity has been consolidated into its new Innovation & Customer Support Centre based in Coventry. In addition to Liberty E-Tech, the advanced EV engineering and EV development centre, Liberty Electric Cars has created a support and maintenance facility, called Liberty E-Care to provide a high level of service to its own European EV customers and those of other companies.

This expansion has taken Liberty Electric Cars into a new sector — commercial vehicles — which offers a large potential for EVs, especially since routes tend to be repetitive and daily journeys are often under 100 miles round trip.

Celebrities enjoy their ride in the Liberty E-Range at the Gumball3000

25th May 2011

Several celebrities, including the famous british actor Tamen Hassan, have enjoyed their ride in the first luxury zero emission 4x4, the Liberty E-Range during the Gumball3000 event in London where the car has been selected to drive VIP guests from their hotel to the starting grid of the rally.

Green Car Guide test drives the Liberty E-Range

24th May 2011

Liberty has a specific niche market in its sights, including senior company directors who are currently paying many thousands of pounds in Benefit-in-Kind tax on their petrol-powered executive cars, who could trade them in for an electric Range Rover and instead pay zero Benefit-in-Kind tax. But more than anything, this car is a statement for people who want to portray a certain image with their car – it’’s an iconic vehicle that has zero-tailpipe emissions, and that still offers the potential of impressive performance and four-wheel drive capability. Read the full article.

Liberty Electric Cars lands large order for Scandinavia and Iceland

28th April 2011

Liberty Electric Cars has signed a memorandum of understanding with Icelandic company, Northern Lights Energy (NLE), for an order for 150 electric vehicles to be delivered across Scandinavia, Iceland and the Faroe Islands over the next four years. The order, one of the largest Liberty Electric Cars has received, has a value of around £24m.

The Liberty E-Range, the world's first pure electric 4x4, is ideally suited to these regions where there is a large proportion of gravel roads and an advanced electricity supply grid using a vast amount of renewable energy. With relatively short distances between many of the major centres of population the Liberty E Range, with its 200 mile autonomy is ideally suited to the conditions in these countries. Liberty Electric Cars will be one of the first companies to deliver electric vehicles to Iceland and there is already considerable interest being shown in the Liberty E-Range by individuals, companies and the government.

Liberty Electric Cars seeks to assist failed electric commercial vehicle maker Modec

8th March 2011

Deeply concerned by the news that Coventry-based electric commercial vehicle maker Modec has entered administration, making about half of its workforce redundant, Liberty Electric Cars CEO, Barry Shrier, has committed significant resources within the Liberty organization to see how to help Modec.

Speaking on Monday 7 March about the news that Modec had been put into administration, Shrier said: “It’s a sad day for the automotive industry as the UK has become the epicentre of electric vehicle technology – a position we must not relinquish. I believe Modec needs to be rescued by a UK firm to secure jobs and retain engineering expertise in this country.”

Shrier went on to outline Liberty’s technology road map and growing list of customers, speculating that a combined Liberty/Modec organization would make a formidable player in the emerging EV sector.

Modec was founded by Lord Jamie Borwick in 2004 and is widely regarded as the market leader in electric commercial vehicles and one of the most promising low-carbon business opportunities for the West Midlands. When takeover talks with its American partner, Navistar, failed the company had no option but to call in the administrators.

Liberty E-Range joins the Switch EV demonstration programme

24th February 2011

The Liberty E-Range has been delivered to Tim Lamb, general manager at Metrocentre and is joining herewith the Switch EV demonstration programme, part of the Technology Strategy Board’s Ultra Low Carbon Vehicle Demonstrator programme. The usage of the pure electric Range Rover across the North East will be monitored and evaluated and will help to develop the market for new models and applications of electric vehicle.

Tim Lamb extremely supportive of the environmental credentials of electric vehicles and a self confessed car enthusiast, does not want to compensate on performance and comfort to drive electric, making him the perfect trial candidate for the E-Range.

“I can’t wait to drive the E-Range and to understand how it works. The performance and range of the vehicle is very impressive and I hope that by the end of the trial I am a convert.”

Liberty E-Range voted 3rd Top Luxury Car of 2010

15th January 2011

Liberty’s E-Range has been voted 3rd top luxury car of 2010 by the Norwegian financial newspaper Finansavisen. Read the full article.

Wired road tests Liberty E-Range in London

2nd December 2010

Wired Magazine tested the Liberty E-Range in London - See full comments on Wired UK’s Liberty E-Range article.

Liberty E-Range is “the best car in the world”

26th November 2010

The most important daily financial newspaper in Norway Finansavisen presents the Liberty E-Range as "The best electric car in the world" - read the full article.

Liberty to take part in Electric Vehicle Investment Networking Breakfast

18th November 2010

Liberty Electric Cars will participate at the Electric Vehicle Investment Networking Breakfast organised by Cleantech Investor Ltd in London at the Gherkin on the 26th November 2010.

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Lords amazed by performance of Liberty E-Range

4th November 2010

Liberty has recently presented its E-Range electric Range Rover to the House of Lords in London where Lord Ahmed has been amazed by the car’s performance.

Liberty Electric Cars presents innovative technology at Brussels Cleantech conference

26th October 2010

Liberty Electric Cars has presented its innovative technology at the Cleantech conference in Brussels organized by the Embassy of Kazakstan and the European Union to support the country in its initiative to reduce its overall pollution levels. Ian Hobday, Managing director Liberty Electric Car said: “ We are proud to be part of this exciting cooperation. Kazakhstan is one of the worlds largest sources of raw materials, but it is also a very forward looking country, that seeks to work with partners from around the globe to develop new technologies especially in the “clean technology” arena.

Liberty Electric Cars wins Chinese Government contract

27th September 2010

Liberty Electric Cars has entered into an agreement with a Chinese Government agency to provide the technology for a pure electric bus platform to be built in China. The programme sees the building of a minimum of 10,000 buses over a 5 year period with the possibility for this to rise to 30,000. Each one of the buses to be built in China will use a unique "e-Kit" designed, assembled and shipped from the North East of England. A dinner in celebration of the partnership was hosted by Sir John Hall at Wynyard Hall in the North East, where the management team of Liberty and the Chinese delegation were told by Sir John of his support and enthusiasm for the project and the prestige it would bring to the area.

World's First Electric 4x4 joins new Future Car Challenge

21st September 2010

The world's first pure electric 4x4, Liberty's E-Range will take part in the RAC Brighton to London Future Car Challenge. It will join around 50 other electric, hybrid and low-emission ic engined cars, light commercial vehicles and motorcycles on the pioneering 60 mile run from Brighton to London on Saturday 6 November. For more information, visit www.futurecarchallenge.com.

AutoExpress highlights advantages of E-Range

14th July 2010

An all-electric Range Rover that can travel 200 miles on a single charge is set to hit the road!

Due to go on sale by the end of the year, the E-Range is produced by Oxford-based Liberty Electric Cars. It is claimed to cover 0-60mph in around seven seconds on its way to an 85mph top speed. Details of the car’s drivetrain and weight have not yet been disclosed, but motors at each wheel are powered by two batteries in the engine bay and six under the car. The E-Range can be charged wirelessly when parked over an induction plate, or using a standard electricity supply or fast charger.

Liberty estimates that owners who spend £50 a week on petrol at present would cut costs to £10 with the E-Range. Prices start at £160,000, although this is likely to fall as the technology develops.

Liberty accomplishes test drive successfully

5th July 2010

Liberty Electric Cars has completed extensive testing to prove for the first time a new and unique world-beating technology that is set to fundamentally revolutionise the vehicle sector. The Liberty Electric E-Range is the world’s first luxury high-performance, Pure Electric, non-polluting 4x4 that will be readily available to fill a significant gap in the family-size and luxury vehicle market – and it will be available in the UK before any other country.

The testing — which took place in and around Newcastle-upon-Tyne on XX June 2010 — put a Liberty-converted Range Rover* through its paces to demonstrate the abilities of the technology. The result is proof that the company has created a large, luxury vehicle that is 100 per cent zero emission** yet performs as well — and in some cases even better — than any combustion-engine equivalent available on the market today.

The new technology can also allow for wireless charging — another world-first — where the car is simply parked over an induction plate and charges automatically without the need for plugs or power leads.

“We are incredibly proud to have proven our critics wrong and demonstrated the performance ability of our proprietary and patented, class-leading technology”, said Liberty Electric Cars Founder and CEO Barry Shrier, who was present at the testing.

“The Liberty Electric E-Range accelerates from zero to 60 in circa 7 seconds, reaches a top speed of 100mph, and has a distance capacity of 200 miles on one single charge — this is the upper end of the drive range that any current EV is able to achieve. In short, the vehicle enables the consumer to enjoy the power, prestige and luxury of the iconic Range Rover without the cost to the environment,” Barry said.

*Liberty Electric Cars is not related to, or endorsed by, Land Rover PLC.
**in line with automotive industry definition of zero emissions at the tailpipe.