Production BMW i3 Unveiled by Leaked Photos
24 Jul 2013, 08:55 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The 2014 BMW i3 was supposed to be next week’s big news, with the German company’s first production EV scheduled to be unveiled on Monday, July 29. Well, as it usually happens, a batch o...
Renault-Nissan Alliance Sells 100,000th EV
23 Jul 2013, 15:40 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The Renault-Nissan Alliance has sold its 100,000th electric vehicle, two years and seven months after the first Nissan Leaf was shipped to its customer in December 2010. The 100,000th EV, which is a...
The Toyota RAV4 EV Is Designed for the Real World
23 Jul 2013, 08:16 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV) these days are a bit overrated. No one buys them for their sportiness and neither to go on a hardcore off-road adventure or haul things around, so neither of its sport n...
BMW i3 Pricing Announced
22 Jul 2013, 11:41 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / German automaker BMW has announced preliminary pricing information for the all-new i3 model, which will be fully unveiled early next week. According to BMW, the i3 will arrive with a price tag of...
Honda Micro Commuter Testing Begins in Japan
22 Jul 2013, 07:31 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Japanese automaker Honda is about to start testing its Micro Commuter prototypes in Japan before the end of the year, Autocar reports, adding that the company will use the data collected to analyze ...
Nissan Needs More Leafs in the US
15 Jul 2013, 14:54 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The days when the Nissan Leaf used to struggle on low sales seem to be a thing of the past, with the Japanese automaker now selling more than 2,000 units a month, four time more when compared to las...
Mitsubishi i-MiEV Is the 100,000th EV Sold in the US
15 Jul 2013, 11:52 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Electric car sales in the United States reached an important milestone recently, with the number of EVs being delivered to customers surpassing the 100,000th mark. While some may find the number ...
Cadillac ELR to Feature All-LED Exterior Lighting
12 Jul 2013, 15:59 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The all-new Cadillac ELR extended range luxury coupe will be the first electric vehicle to use all-LED exterior lighting, the Michigan-based automaker announced today. Fitted with front LED light...
Berlin Confirmed As Formula E Host City
12 Jul 2013, 12:18 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / German capital Berlin was announced as the tenth host city for the FIA Formula E Championship, an all-electric racing series which is scheduled to begin in 2014. The launched event was held besid...
Volkswagen e-Up! Pricing Announced
8 Jul 2013, 07:19 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / German automaker has revealed initial pricing information for its all-electric e-Up! model, which is set to debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show later this year. Volkswagen’s first fully elect...
Nissan Working on Upscale Twizy EV
4 Jul 2013, 09:27 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Japanese automaker Nissan has revealed plans to develop an upscale version of its Renault Twizy-based electric car. Even though it runs a fleet of rebadged Renault Twizy vehicles in Japan, where ...
Watch Drayson Racing Set New EV World Land Speed Record
2 Jul 2013, 13:10 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / As we already told you last week, Drayson Racing has set a new World Electric Land Speed Record for electric cars, after their B12 69/EV Le-Mans Prototype achieved a top speed of 204.185 mph (328.60...
Drayson Racing Sets New World Land Speed Record for Electric Cars
26 Jun 2013, 09:42 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Drayson Racing has set a new World Electric Land Speed Record yesterday, after their B12 69/EV electric Le-Mans Prototype achieved a top speed of 204.185 mph (328.604 km/h) with former science minis...
Google to Buy Tesla?
25 Jun 2013, 11:47 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / It’s been about a month since Tesla Motors has paid off the entire loan awarded by the US Department of Energy (DOE) in 2010, and reports are already talking about the company becoming an imp...
Tesla Model S Battery Swap Takes 90 Seconds
21 Jun 2013, 14:37 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Set to introduce battery swapping for the Tesla Model S before the end of the year, EV automaker Tesla Motors demonstrated that the car’s battery pack can be changed in just 90 seconds. The...
Audi Electric, Hydrogen-Powered Cars Not Coming Any Time Soon
14 Jun 2013, 15:29 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Despite having already developed an all-electric R8 and started working on a hydrogen-powered version of the A7, German automaker Audi is not in a hurry to join the markets as a mass-producing compa...
Ford Starts Focus Electric Production in Europe
12 Jun 2013, 12:20 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The 100% electric powered version of the Ford Focus compact car has made it across the pond and is now also being produced in Saarlouis, Germany, for the European market. Developed as a “On...
Audi A1 e-tron Gets More Power
12 Jun 2013, 09:10 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Audi is taking steps towards the electric cars of tomorrow and has updated the A1 e-tron trial car with more power. The electric motor under the supermini's bonnet now produces 115 PS (85 kW) a...
Watch a Nissan Leaf Race Car Do Electric Donuts
28 May 2013, 12:05 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / What would you call donuts 'baked' by an electric vehicle? Organic? Low Fat? Who knows, all we care about is "wow" factor of watching an electric vehicle with rear wheel drive do...
The World's Fastest 3-Wheeled EV is Here
19 Mar 2013, 11:34 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / US-based company Epic EV has partially unveiled its new TORQ Roadster, which is claimed to be the world's fastest 3-wheeled electric vehicle. Powered by an electric motor that generates 400 ...