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Coulomb Home Chargers Available
Coulomb Home Chargers Available

27 Jul 2010, 09:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Electric vehicles charging solutions provider Coulomb announced yesterday it will make available in short time the CT500 Level II ChargePoint for home and light commercial use. For those interested ...

 
Prince Charles' EV Garden Party
Prince Charles' EV Garden Party

26 Jul 2010, 06:13 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / This September, for 12 days starting the 8th, the Prince of Wales thought to give his royal subjects the opportunity to visit and spend some time at his own gardens at Clarence House, as well as in ...

 
Eco-Friendly AC Refrigerant Coming from GM
Eco-Friendly AC Refrigerant Coming from GM

24 Jul 2010, 13:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Most of you already know by now that besides the dreaded CO2 emitted by our cars and production facilities, one of the most harmful gases to the ozone layer is the refrigerant used in air conditioni...

 
Couple Accused of Stealing GM Hybrid Technology
Couple Accused of Stealing GM Hybrid Technology

23 Jul 2010, 09:57 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Is there a shortage of brilliant engineers in our world? Are hybrid vehicles really using technology coming from outer space? If any of the answers for the aforementioned questions would be “Y...

 
Renault Partners with Enerji
Renault Partners with Enerji

20 Jul 2010, 07:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The need to create the best infrastructure possible for the line of electric vehicles in plans to roll in the year to come has taken French manufacturer Renault all the way to Istanbul. There, t...

 
Electric Super Toyota Coming
Electric Super Toyota Coming

20 Jul 2010, 06:12 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In the past year or so, the automotive world saw the world of the electric vehicles get supercharged with the presentation of several electric supercars: Audi unveiled the e-tron (three of them actu...

 
Nissan Leaf-Based Electric Sports Car Coming
Nissan Leaf-Based Electric Sports Car Coming

19 Jul 2010, 13:03 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The world of electric performance vehicles promises to become much more populated in the future. While most of the customers that are searching for an electric-powered vehicle that can offer adre...

 
PSA Gets EUR200M Loan for Diesel PHEV
PSA Gets EUR200M Loan for Diesel PHEV

19 Jul 2010, 10:22 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / French group Peugeot Citroen announced today it has signed a loan agreement with the European Investment Bank (EIB) through which it will receive EUR200 million for the development of plug-in hybrid...

 
General Electric Presents WattStation for EVs
General Electric Presents WattStation for EVs

14 Jul 2010, 10:23 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The automotive world is used to receiving innovative plans from independent designers who offer their visions of what a car belonging to a certain brand should look like. The electric vehicle segmen...

 
2011 Peugeot 508 Revealed
2011 Peugeot 508 Revealed

13 Jul 2010, 07:02 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Following yesterday’s photo leakage, today we bring to you initial details and photos of the new Peugeot 508, officially unveiled by the French manufacturer. According to Peugeot, the new 508 ...

 
Tesla Ready to Ship Prototypes to Toyota
Tesla Ready to Ship Prototypes to Toyota

11 Jul 2010, 08:05 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Things seem to be moving very fast for both American electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla and the Japanese from Toyota, following the partnership announcement they've made in May. Whereas earlie...

 
China to Drive the Automotive World in 2010
China to Drive the Automotive World in 2010

9 Jul 2010, 15:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After becoming the world's biggest auto market last year, China is poised to stay number one and, according to a study by J.D. Power and Associates, strengthen its position in the rest of the y...

 
BBC Think City Tour Ends
BBC Think City Tour Ends

9 Jul 2010, 09:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Exactly a month after Norwegian electric vehicle manufacturer Think partnered with BBC for the first ever European tour of the Think City Car, the 4,500-mile (7,242 km), 12-country European trip en...

 
2012 Infiniti M35 Hybrid to Come with Double Mileage
2012 Infiniti M35 Hybrid to Come with Double Mileage

7 Jul 2010, 09:43 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The brand’s first hybrid in the entire history, the hybrid Infinity M35 scheduled for introduction in spring 2011, will come with a nearly doubled mileage. Nissan representatives said to Auton...

 
I-5 to Turn into West Coast Green Highway
I-5 to Turn into West Coast Green Highway

5 Jul 2010, 12:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The push to implement an effective charging infrastructure for the upcoming flood of EV vehicles is causing more and more projects to see daylight, with some of them really having the chance of beco...

 
Nissan Leaf "new action TOUR" Starts on July 31
Nissan Leaf "new action TOUR" Starts on July 31

5 Jul 2010, 12:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Several months after Japanese manufacturer Nissan kicked off the US tour of its Leaf electric vehicle, a similar endeavor is currently gearing up in Leaf's home country, Japan. Dubbed "the...

 
Volkswagen E-Up! Coming to Certain U.S. Markets
Volkswagen E-Up! Coming to Certain U.S. Markets

3 Jul 2010, 18:39 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Volkswagen will not include the mini Up! City vehicle in its U.S. line-up, but the automaker will bring the electric version of the car, dubbed the E-Up! to America, as Automobile Magazine reports.T...

 
Nissan Leaf, Charged in Portugal
Nissan Leaf, Charged in Portugal

30 Jun 2010, 14:40 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / No less than three premieres took place in Portugal yesterday, when the first Nissan Leaf in the country was plugged into the country's first electric vehicle charging station for the first tim...

 
Allison to Produce Hybrid Systems in Indianapolis
Allison to Produce Hybrid Systems in Indianapolis

30 Jun 2010, 07:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As a result of a collaboration with the Department of Energy (read grant), supplier Allison announced the dedication of a plant in Indianapolis for the production of a new hybrid propulsion system f...

 
Chevrolet Volt's Petrol Engine to Power Wheels in Europe?
Chevrolet Volt's Petrol Engine to Power Wheels in Europe?

28 Jun 2010, 20:27 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / For those of you who were expecting a Chevrolet Volt/Vauxhall Ampera whose hybrid driveline would be operated fully electric, your wait might have been for nothing. According to a report from Britis...