Great News EcoVelocity the ground breaking eco car show is back again this year. Secondly it is now to be held at the ExCel with more and more space for test drives to assess the low carbon vehicles available. Thirdly it has now joined forces with the organisers of Grand Designs Live and the shows will run side by side in May.
Last Years EcoVelocity show was a worthwhile day, I went along and had great time driving all the cars available. I have since driven a Mitsubishi i-MIEV electric car for a week with my family, Watch the Trailer. Entered the RAC Future Car Challenge thanks to Peugeot in a Peugeot iON and been in the RAC Electric Car Grand Prix at Silverstone. I am becoming a true plughead these days.
Visitors to the Ecocelocity show will be able to see and test drive the latest crop of eco vehicles which will include electric, plug-in hybrids, hybrids and other CO2-busting vehicles. Once visitors have driven the cars on their shortlist they can visit Grand Designs Live to see what’s new and sustainable for their home.
EcoVelocity will be a stand-alone event alongside Grand Designs Live and will continue with its own enhanced marketing campaign, which, with a considerably more accessible venue, will attract a much higher audience than in 2011.
Kevin McCloud a keen electric car enthusiast entered the 2012 RAC Future Car Challenge last year, which I also entered with Peugeot.
Giles Brown, organiser of EcoVelocity and managing director of IGME Ltd commented: “This partnership is the perfect development for EcoVelocity, the media company for Grand Designs have an enviable reputation for developing outstanding events and by running alongside Grand Designs Live, EcoVelocity immediately becomes part of a greater success story.
“What started as a joint promotion discussion quickly became a realisation that we could develop something to be much greater than the sum of individual parts. This helps resolve the age-old conundrum of how to attract affluent motorists to attend a motorshow as well as the holy grail of car show organisers – attracting female car buyers to visit the show!”
Metro remain a core media partner and will be promoting the event, and its exhibitors heavily through an advertising and editorial campaign. What Car? Magazine will be supporting EcoVelocity through its print and online community and will host their ever-more-important Green Awards from the show.
EcoVelocity also has extensive backing and support from a host of other national, regional and vertical media partners to ensure EcoVelocity becomes the most popular low carbon car show in the UK.
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