EV Depreciation Rate
26 Jun 2010, 20:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Back in the beginning of the year, we brought a little piece on how the depreciation rate of a vehicle affects the new car you just bought and showed you how a brand new car is worth 20 percent less...
Toyota Recalls Lexus HS 250h Hybrids Over Fuel Leak Problems
26 Jun 2010, 07:47 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Things are going from bad to worse for the Japanese giant Toyota, as the company today announced a voluntary safety recall concerning around 17,000 Lexus HS 250h models. Following the safety tests c...
The Renault Nissan Alliance Expands to Taiwan
24 Jun 2010, 07:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The efforts made by the Renault-Nissan alliance to develop the required infrastructure for the future electric vehicles the two will launch in the years to come continue with the announcement of the...
Think G4 Plug and Play Controller Launched
23 Jun 2010, 09:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Norwegian electric vehicle manufacturer Think announced the launch of the fourth generation EV drive train plug and play technology during the Automotive News Europe Congress in Spain. Dubb...
Toshiba to Build EV Motors, Plant in Houston
23 Jun 2010, 06:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Japanese manufacturer Toshiba announced yesterday it is expanding its presence in the automotive sector with the start of production of high-performance drive motors for hybrid, hybrid electric and ...
Dow Kokam Battery Plant Breaks Ground
22 Jun 2010, 07:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Work on what is supposed to be an 800,000 square-foot, large-format battery manufacturing facility has begun yesterday in Midland, Michigan, with Dow Chemical Company, TK Advanced Battery, Groupe In...
VW Jetta to Turn Hybrid
18 Jun 2010, 07:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / At about the same time German carmaker Volkswagen pulled the wraps off the new Jetta, presenting all its three petrol and one turbodiesel direct-injection engines, some within the German group alrea...
Plugless EV Charging System Closer to Production
16 Jun 2010, 09:19 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Evatran, the manufacturer of the world’s first cordless electric vehicle charging system, announced it will receive a $1.25 million grant through Wythe County’s Joint Industrial Developm...
Think Makes First EV Fleet Sale in Switzerland
16 Jun 2010, 09:13 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Norwegian electric vehicle manufacturer announced today it has completed the first fleet sale of EVs in Switzerland and, at the same time "the most exciting retail agreement' made by Think...
New South Wales to Start Smart Grid Testing
15 Jun 2010, 09:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The government of New South Wales announced this week the start of a AU$100 million "smart grid" testing and demonstration, with 20 electric vehicles to put the network through its paces. ...
Dacia Hamster Hybrid First Photos
14 Jun 2010, 07:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Yes, you read it right. It's a Dacia, it's a hybrid and it's called... Hamster. Even more, it appears to be as real as it gets... A few months after the world premiere of the firs...
Renault Nissan Alliance Expands to New Zealand
14 Jun 2010, 07:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The push for electrification by French-Japanese Renault Nissan alliance got another boost over the weekend, as the two carmakers announced they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with t...
Proterra Electric Bus Maker Secures $20M Funding
9 Jun 2010, 12:56 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Proterra, a heavy-duty eco vehicle manufacturer based in Golgen, Colorado, announced that it has received $20 million in funding from clean tech investor MK Energy and Infrastructure. The money w...
Audi Kicks Off EV Production Competition
7 Jun 2010, 09:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / German carmaker Audi announced today it will start a competition aimed at developing new ideas for production of electric vehicles. Called “The Production of Electric Automobiles,” the c...
Verizon Buys 576 Chevrolet Silverado Two-Mode Hybrids
6 Jun 2010, 10:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The efforts made by big US fleet operators to make their car fleet more efficient in terms of fuel consumption and more eco-friendly when it comes to emission levels got a boost this weekend, after ...
BBC to Drive the Think Across Europe
4 Jun 2010, 07:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In what may be the very first documentary of an electric vehicle trekking the countries of Europe, Norwegian electric carmaker Think announced in has partnered with BBC for a historic trip called BB...
Hybrid Trucks and Buses to Reach 300,000 by 2015
3 Jun 2010, 09:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Another study into how the hybrid-electric vehicles' market will evolve over the next five years has been released by Pike Research, this time trying to estimate how many trucks and buses will ...
THINK Makes First Step Into Brazil
2 Jun 2010, 12:37 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The Scandinavian electric vehicle maker THINK is continuing the expansion plan that has seen the company enter new European markets, as well as announce plans to start new operations in the U.S. and...
Evo Electric Launches Next Gen Axial Flux Motor
1 Jun 2010, 13:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Evo Electric, the people behind the Axial Flux motor/generator technology which was featured in the first demonstration of a hybrid vehicle coming from Lotus, the Evora 414E Hybrid, announced today ...
Excitement Over Germany's EV Ambitions Fades
31 May 2010, 08:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Back at the beginning of May, Germany was in celebration over the launch of the country's National Electric Mobility Platform (NEMP). All that enthusiasm and excitement have now faded away, as ...