Beijing Automobile Group Looks Set for EV Production
29 Nov 2010, 10:43 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Beijing Automobile Group Co., Ltd. (BAIC Group) will begin mass-production of all-electric vehicles in 2011, while only rolling out 30 units of the C60 electric cars this year. The company is p...
Infiniti's Marketing Predicament: Performance or Efficiency?
29 Nov 2010, 09:10 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / When Infiniti releases its first ever hybrid vehicle, the 2012 M35h sedan, it will face a challenge it had never encountered before. From the marketer's perspective, this is new ground for the ...
Coda Delays Electric Sedan Launch
29 Nov 2010, 07:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Of the companies set on taking a considerable share of the electric vehicle market, Coda announced today it is postponing for a short time the introduction of the Electric sedan model, due to the ne...
VW Personnel Trained in Augmented Reality
26 Nov 2010, 14:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The level of technological advancement we reached in our age is perhaps more visible in the automotive world than it is in any other field of the heavy industry. For carmakers, having the right tech...
Mercedes Considering Production Version of Biome Concept
26 Nov 2010, 08:35 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / One of the juiciest battles in the history of the automobile is the one that has been taking place between BMW and Mercedes. Car enthusiasts have been waiting for years to see this fight taken to th...
Lorinser Launches Easybrid smart fortwo
25 Nov 2010, 14:14 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / A multitude of aftermarket companies have announced interesting development for this year’s edition of the Essen Motor Show, which will be held between November 27 and December 5. However, the...
Chery to Launch EVs in the US in 2011
25 Nov 2010, 10:40 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / It was only a matter of time until Chinese carmakers made the United States a priority in terms of sales and new cars distribution. So, here you are, the wait is over as Chery Automobile, regarded a...
The Nissan Leaf Will Have Low Insurance Premiums
25 Nov 2010, 10:11 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / With all the talk of purchase price, charging costs, tax incentives, congestion charging exemptions and maintenance costs for EVs, there is one vehicle expense that people seem to have forgotten: in...
ZAP Signs Agreement With Shanghai Officials
23 Nov 2010, 18:13 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / Shanghai officials have contracted Santa-Rosa based EV maker ZAP to provide charging stations, battery swap facilities and maintenance depots for the city's commercial Yangpu district. ZAP w...
Automakers Push For Faster EV Chargers
23 Nov 2010, 16:16 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / Electric vehicles seem like a reasonable approach on the environmental problem everybody's been fussing about lately. Yet production and distribution of all-electric cars is slowed drastically ...
Sanyo Supplies Batteries to Six Automakers
23 Nov 2010, 14:20 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / Back in August, Sanyo Electric Co, the world's biggest maker of lithium ion cells, has completed construction of the “Kasai Green Energy Park” lithium-ion production facility in Hyo...
Toyota Turbocharges Its Engine Lineup
23 Nov 2010, 10:25 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / Toyota plans to introduce 11 new or redesigned hybrids to its lineup by 2012, but it doesn't ignore the fact that consumers are still demanding traditional internal-combustion propelled vehicle...
Honda Hit by the Unintended Acceleration Disease
23 Nov 2010, 09:39 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) received a report of a 2005MY Honda Accord Hybrid being involved in an accident due to brake power loss and unintended acceleration after c...
Nissan Leaf Gets EPA Rating: 99 MPG
23 Nov 2010, 06:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / And this is where thing begin to become blurry. The rise of the electric vehicle will likely cause headaches for consumers, who, knowing that the Leaf for instance is a pure EV, will have a hard tim...
Electric Toyota iQ Coming in 2012
22 Nov 2010, 14:38 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The fact that Toyota is slowly moving towards electric vehicles is not new, mostly because the partnership between the Japanese carmaker and Tesla Motors will give birth to an electric RAV4. This ti...
Hertz and CODA Automotive to Make New EV Sedan
22 Nov 2010, 14:20 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / CODA Automotive, a California-based electric car and battery company, has partnered with Hertz Corporation, the world's largest general use airport car rental brand, in order to manufacture an ...
Hybrid Battery Expenses Are No Longer Hidden Costs
22 Nov 2010, 08:22 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / Hybrids are eco-friendly. They are not entirely beneficial to the environment, but at least they're not causing as much damage as their internal-combustion-only counterparts. Due to the fact th...
Asia to Be Flooded with EVs
21 Nov 2010, 12:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / One of the fastest growing regions in the world when it comes to the automotive industry, the Asia Pacific region is sustaining its growth by taking a very lucrative approach to the future. As the e...
Toyota Reveals Plans For a Green Future
20 Nov 2010, 13:26 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / Toyota announced its plans to release a range of greener vehicles. Among them are 11 new conventional hybrids and a plug-in hybrid based on the current Prius. Toyota claims that one of the hybrids, ...
Mitsubishi Signs EV Treaty With Singaporean Government
19 Nov 2010, 13:38 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) and its distributor in Singapore Cycle & Carriage Automotive (CCA) have signed a cooperation agreement to popularize electric vehicles with the Singapore gove...