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Volvo Cars will reveal its electric C30, which has a range of just under 100 miles at the Detroit Motor Show in January.

Vehicle remarketing company G3 will use the KeyWorth Mobile Inspector for vehicle inspections.

Low winter sun and dirty windscreens mean there is a significant risk of dangerous dazzle to business drivers, says IAM Fleet and Drive & Survive.

The Government is calling for councils to carry out speed limit reviews of their rural roads by 2011, focussing on National Speed Limit single carriageway ‘A’ and ‘B’ roads where 41% of fatalities occur.

Avis has launched an Eco Collection range of cars that are guaranteed to have emissions below 120g/km.

Despite the guarantees of significant financial support for fleets willing to use electric vehicles, it is unlikely that this support will have any real impact on the numbers of electric cars used by fleets.

Lex Autolease has launched a free fuel white paper for business fleets.

Kwik-Fit Fleet has won a major award from Legal & General after being named winner of the company’s 2009 Supply Chain ‘Make a Difference’ (MAD) Awards.

New proposals to allow councils to put in place 20mph schemes without the need for traffic calming measures such as speed humps have been announced by Road Safety Minister Paul Clark.

Skoda has confirmed the prices for its latets Superb estate.

Defleet car sales direct to drivers through Epyx’s 1link Disposal Network e-commerce platform have more than doubled.

Hitachi Capital Vehicle Solutions will be rolling out an online ‘dashboard’, giving fleets easy access to headline information and analysis from January 2010.

Euro NCAP, the European car safety testing agency, will begin crash testing light commercial vehicles and car-derived vans from mid 2010.

Fiat is working on gaining an extra 18,000 sales next year as a result of its deal with BSM to provide the driving school with 500 city cars.

The police have named the 10 most popular vehicles to be stolen.

The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has welcomed an electric Mini E to the Government car pool in Downing Street.

Disabling satellite navigation screens when a car is in motion is a step too far, according to the majority of respondents to a Fleet News poll, which received a record number of responses.

Seat has won its biggest fleet deal after it won the contract to supply 500 new Leon Ecomotives to British Gas.

Fleets should benefit from a new fuel price war between the supermarkets.

Manheim has taken on the Bruntingthorpe auction centre, which has a capacity for 20,000 vehicles.

GreenRoad is to supply the Ministry of Defence with its in-vehicle driving analysis systems into 4,578 vehicles for the next three years.

Twenty Prius Plug-in Hybrids will be leased to government and private fleets for trails here next year.

One-dimensional remarketing approach increases costs, says GRS director Theo Kortland

CBVC will provide fleet management to Phoenix IT Group, which supplies IT support services and associated products, after winning a three-year contract.

Used van prices continue go from strength to strength.

Masternaut UK has been acquired by Masternaut International in a move that adds a degree of stability to the fleet telematics industry.

TyreSafe reminds drivers of the need for extra tyre pressure when carrying heavy loads.

A new 12-bay £2 million HiQ fast fit centre has opened in Leeds.

Ford is predicting a flat year for van sales in 2010 after sales plummeted by almost 40% in 2009. It blames the poor availability of finance for new van purchases.

The fall in used car values is continuing, with both of the largest auction companies reporting declining prices in November.