Nissan to Offer Special Training for Leaf Dealers in Europe
5 May 2010, 10:01 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Nissan’s European dealers will have to follow a massive training program before they start selling the Leaf full-electric car this year, a company’s top executive said, quoted by the Aut...
BorgWarner Expands Its Electric Cabin Heater Business
3 May 2010, 13:27 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The adoption of more efficient vehicles brings multiple changes to the automotive industry, as the high efficiency vehicles feature a different energy cycle, having a special components requirement....
Tesla Electric CUV Coming in 2013
30 Apr 2010, 14:13 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The success electric vehicle manufacturer has had with the Roadster, as well as the projected market hit the Model S will be made the American manufacturer consider a CUV to join the range of highwa...
Volvo 2009 Sustainability Report
30 Apr 2010, 08:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After the conclusion of what it calls a "turbulent 2009," Swedish manufacturer Volvo expressed today its confidence that future Volvo cars sales will be driven by sustainable mobility. As ...
Tesla to Announce the Location of Its West Coast Plant
29 Apr 2010, 13:47 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Tesla Motors will announce in the next several weeks the exact location of the plant to produce its electric vehicles, CEO Elon Musk told Automotive News yesterday. Tesla's first mass productio...
Lexus Sponsors Great British Bike Ride
28 Apr 2010, 14:54 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Luxury car manufacturer Lexus announced today it is the title sponsor of the first Great British Bike Ride from Land’s End to Twickenham, a zero emissions event that will cover around 80 miles...
Better Place Partners with Chery
28 Apr 2010, 13:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Electric vehicle solutions provider and the developer of the charging network for the Renault-Nissan alliance Better Place announced today the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Chi...
ZAP Alias Qualified for X PRIZE Shakedown
27 Apr 2010, 14:04 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The U.S. electric vehicle maker ZAP announced that it is now a step closer to achieving its goal of winning the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE (PIAXP) competition, as its Alias electric ca...
Renault-Nissan Sunderland Plant Breaks Ground
27 Apr 2010, 13:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Renault Nissan alliance announced today it has started work on what will be the Europe's first lithium-ion battery plant. Located in Sunderland, UK, the facility will have an initial produc...
Better Place On Schedule with Network Development
27 Apr 2010, 09:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After electric vehicle solutions provider Better Place announced the opening of the world's first battery switch station in Tokyo yesterday, the company's Australian CEO, Evan Thornley, sa...
900 Potential Customers for the Porsche 918 Spyder Hybrid
27 Apr 2010, 07:08 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Porsche revealed it had almost 900 potential buyers for its 918 Spyder hybrid concept car. Porsche unveiled the 918 Spyder at the Geneva Auto Show last month and said at the time that it would consi...
GE and Nissan to Integrate EVs Into Everyday Living
26 Apr 2010, 13:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Japanese manufacturer Nissan and GE Global Research announced today the creation of a new partnership, aimed at researching new technologies for EVs. The three years Memorandum of Understanding (MOU...
Win a Honda Insight in the Green Music Group Challenge
26 Apr 2010, 12:28 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / American Honda recently announced it is the prize sponsor in the first-ever Green Music Group Challenge, and will be awarding a 2010 Honda Insight hybrid as the Grand Prize at the conclusion of the...
Switchable Battery EVs Launched in Tokyo
26 Apr 2010, 10:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Following the opening of the first EV demonstration center in Israel, electric vehicle solutions provider Better Place has kicked off a 90-day switchable-battery electric taxi service in Japan. ...
Electric Vehicles Safety Standards Summit Coming in October
25 Apr 2010, 19:28 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / As the electric vehicles market is developing, the industry must ensure that it has a set of safety standards for this relatively new segment and that these are met by all the vehicles available for...
THINK To Deliver a New EV Fleet
23 Apr 2010, 12:11 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The Scandinavian electric vehicle maker THINK announced that its “Changing the World, One Car At a Time” eco program is making progress, as multiple European electricity and utilities pr...
Renault-Nissan EVs to Be Present in Milton Keynes, UK
22 Apr 2010, 14:59 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The Renault-Nissan Alliance and the Milton Keynes Council signed an agreement that sets out a road map for the upcoming electric vehicle and infrastructure in the Borough. The agreement states th...
Volkswagen Presents All-Electric Taxi in Hannover
19 Apr 2010, 14:17 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Volkswagen has announced it will launch its first production electric vehicles in 2013. Until then, the German automaker showed today, at the debut of the Hannover Trade Show (April 19-23), its idea...
Free Renault Z.E. Vehicles... in The Sims 3
19 Apr 2010, 10:25 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The Renault-Nissan Alliance is currently running worldwide campaign for the introduction of its zero emissions vehicles, a projects that includes the signing of over 50 agreements between the Allian...
Renault Fluence ZE, Kangoo Express Production Versions Unveiled
16 Apr 2010, 07:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As its efforts to implement an infrastructure which will support electric vehicles in the near future continue, French carmaker Renault pulled the wraps of the production versions of its two upcomin...