Battery Manufacturer A123 Systems Reports €100 million Q1 Losses
15 May 2012, 08:53 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Lithium-ion battery manufacturer A123 Systems has officially posted a loss of €100 ($125) million and a revenue figure of €8.5 ($10.9) million for the first quarter of 2012. The total ...
Toyota to Only Sell 2,600 RAV4 EVs
15 May 2012, 08:24 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / After having unveiled the new RAV4 EV and its price of $49,800 (€38,200), Toyota have announced a sales target of around 2,600 units over the following three years. But why so few? Toyota co...
Will Ferrell Drives a Black Nissan Leaf
14 May 2012, 14:25 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Will Ferrell makes one heck of a George Bush impersonation, but that doesn’t mean he swings that way in the environmental side of things. In fact, he’s so keen on the environment that he...
Renault Zoe Expected to Outsell Nissan Leaf in Europe
14 May 2012, 13:56 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Nissan Leaf has established itself as the reference vehicle in the sector, and with good reason, as it’s genuinely a good and well engineered car. Renault, however, have announced that the...
Egret One - Light-Weight Compact Electric Scooter
14 May 2012, 13:19 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The kick-scooters have been around for around 100 years. First they were hand made out of wood and rudimentary components. Nowadays, they are motorized and much more advanced also moving into the el...
Roskva Electric Motorbike Coming from Norway
14 May 2012, 13:18 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / If you thought that modern bikes, even electric ones, are too conventional-looking, you’ll be glad to know that a team from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences is developing a very inter...
Tata Motors to Launch Compressed-Air Car by the End of the Year
14 May 2012, 12:23 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Aside from ‘free energy’ devices which some claim are myths (even though the information is just being suppressed so that we use more oil), creating power out of nothing is next-to-impos...
Hyundai Promotes Eco-Friendly Steel Plant
11 May 2012, 15:55 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / When a maker of relatively efficient cars like Volkswagen gets attacked by Greenpeace for not being green enough, you know that it’s good to be as eco-friendly as possible. Hyundai knows this,...
Brammo Empulse Electric Motorcycle - Pricing and Details
11 May 2012, 10:18 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Brammo Empulse electric sport bike has finally been revealed, and from an aesthetic point of view, it looks nearly identical to the prototype first shown nearly two years ago. This all-electr...
Huge Increase in Sales for Zero Motorcycles
11 May 2012, 09:36 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Formerly known as Electricross, Zero Motorcycles is an electric motorcycle manufacturer born in 2006 in Santa Cruz, California, with the company being created by a former NASA employee. They have co...
The Third Fastest-Selling Car in the US Is the Toyota Prius
10 May 2012, 15:41 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / In a recent study by cars.com, they have gathered sales data from April and have compiled a list of the fastest selling cars in the US. From the study, it has become apparent that Americans love the...
Four EVs Planned by Nissan Over the Next Three Years
10 May 2012, 13:17 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Nissan Leaf was the first properly engineered electric car available for the masses. It sales figures are decent and on the rise, so Nissan has decided that it’s time to expand their EV ra...
Tesla Model S Deliveries Poised to Begin
10 May 2012, 13:16 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / To quench its investors’ thirst for blood after it announced a first-quarter net loss of $89.9 million, Tesla Motors has announced that the Model S electric sedan will begin its delivery sched...
BYD to Supply Ten Electric Buses to Windsor, Ontario
9 May 2012, 17:03 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It is still strange to us how the EV craze hasn’t caught on with city transportation services. Trolley buses are old fashioned and quite cumbersome and battery technology has advanced enough t...
Hydrogen Powered Hyundai iX35 Treks Europe
9 May 2012, 16:38 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The old continent has been successfully crossed by a pair of hydrogen-powered Hyundai iX35 from the North of Europe, in Oslo, to the very South, in Monaco - a journey of 2246 km (1,404 miles) which ...
Odd Safety Testing for the Nissan Leaf
9 May 2012, 16:07 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The danger of a high voltage electric shock is ever present in the minds of the people who drive today’s all-electric cars. Couple that with the fear of running out of juice and it may not be ...
Another Blow for the Fisker Karma - Blamed for Texas Fire
9 May 2012, 12:40 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / As if its less than satisfactory customer reports and other problems were not enough, the Fisker Karma is has been dealt another blow. Fingers are pointed towards it as being the source of a recent ...
Angry Bison Rams Minivan
9 May 2012, 11:40 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Man’s expansion on our home planet is relentless. Encroaching on pristine wilderness with our roads and cities which are constantly expanding all over the world. In this video, the bison is de...
Quickest EV in the World is a Drag Bike
8 May 2012, 13:51 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Lawless Rocket is an amazing machine. The Orange County Choppers built bike’s motor pumps out a staggering 1,610hp and the acceleration it can achieve is mind-boggling by any standards. ...
Price of Lithium-Ion Batteries Set to Drop by 2015
8 May 2012, 11:18 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Ronald Berger Strategy Consultants (RBSC) - as their name suggests, a consultancy firm - have released their updated study on the lithium-ion battery industry for the automotive world. The segme...