Toyota Prius PHEV Set for Frankfurt Debut in Production Form
12 Aug 2011, 14:10 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Toyota has announced today that the full production version of the Prius Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) will take place at the Frankfurt Motor Show on September 15th. The model now featur...
Toyota and Lexus Hybrids to Shine at EcoVelocity
8 Aug 2011, 13:45 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Toyota and Lexus will be showcasing their current and future low emissions full hybrid technologies at EcoVelocity, a festival of green cars that is taking place at the iconic Battersea Power Statio...
Ford F-Series Super-Duty Trucks to Get PHEV Tech from Azure
28 Jul 2011, 06:29 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Ford and Azure Dynamics Corporation will join forces once again in a partnership that will see the plug-in hybrid (“PHEV”) technology introduced across the Ford F-Series Super Duty produ...
Mitsubishi Outlander Sport PHEV to Arrive in US in 2013
12 Jul 2011, 07:22 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Mitsubishi is heavily committed to developing plug-in hybrid vehicles at the moment, and one unwanted side-effect would be the arrival of an Evo XI that you’d have to plug into the wall. Howev...
Volkswagen to Use Golf Variant twinDRIVE as Research Vehicles
29 Jun 2011, 14:49 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / German automaker Volkswagen, in cooperation with six other partners, initiated the “Fleet study in electric mobility” in mid-2008, with the goal of consistently use renewable energy sour...
New LZ-1 Electric Super Car from Leo Motors To Debut This Year
6 Jun 2011, 05:44 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Leo Motors, a US public company based outside of Seoul, Korea, has just announced it is close to finalizing their electric super car project that has been under way since 2006. The vehicle, set to d...
Chrysler Announces Ram 1500 Plug-In Hybrid with HEMI V8 Engine
26 May 2011, 04:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Fresh out of the huge debt it owed to the US and Canadian governments, Chrysler made an announcement on Wednesday that took everyone by surprise: out of the clear blue sky, and just when everyone wa...
Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid to Be Ordered Online
20 Apr 2011, 05:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A new breed of cars is in need of a new breed of ordering system. Taking advantage of the easy process insured by the Internet, Toyota announced today that the long-awaited natural evolution of the ...
Lithium Technology to Supply Asian Fleet of Test Vehicles
11 Apr 2011, 08:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Two new fleets of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids are in the making somewhere in Asia, where an unnamed auto maker will benefit from the products developed by the Lithium Technology Corporatio...
Microsoft to Announce Partnership with Toyota
6 Apr 2011, 11:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A move of gargantuan proportions is in the making in the US and Japan this week, as two of the biggest companies in their respective field, Microsoft and Toyota, are about to announce a partnership ...
PHEVs to Take Over America, EVs Asia and Europe
30 Mar 2011, 08:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Seen by most as a better choice than the purely electric vehicle, the plug-in hybrid is expected to be a hit in the first half of the decade, according to a new study published by Pike Research. Acc...
Fisker Karma Enters Production
23 Mar 2011, 09:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's been a long way from when Fisker presented for the first time the Karma plug-in hybrid and the moment when its manufacturing partner, Valmet Automotive, kicked off the production of the mo...
Americans Confused over Hybrids, PHEVs, EVs
16 Mar 2011, 15:22 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's a brave new world we live in, with more types of electric vehicles being released that the human mind can comprehend. This fact – the confusion that runs in the heads of the consumer...
Geneva 2011: Opel Ampera Production Version · Live Photos
1 Mar 2011, 15:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The European sibling of the Chevrolet Volt, the Opel Ampera (or Vauxhall, depending on where in Europe you live) presented itself, in production version clothing, at the Geneva Auto Show which opene...
OnStar Energy Management System Explained
21 Feb 2011, 06:38 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The arrival of the electric vehicle onto the market at the end of last year has left most of the unsuspecting consumers in the dark when it comes to the hows and whys of electric vehicle charging, e...
Zipcar and Toyota to Launch Multi-City Introduction of PHEVs
27 Jan 2011, 15:10 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Car sharing service provider Zipcar announced today the introduction of eight Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles (PHVs) into its network, that are now available to Zipcar members in Boston/Cambrid...
Ford C-Max Energi, Hybrid Unveiled
10 Jan 2011, 07:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The year started with a bang for American manufacturer Ford, who presented last week, during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas the electric version of the Ford Focus. But, just as promised ...
autoEVolution
30 Dec 2010, 15:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Have you seen Iron Man 2? Remember the ex-wife bullet/mini-rocket used by Stark's rival to arm the unpainted Iron Man suit? A lot of noise that bullet made, before harmlessly hitting the oversi...
TXU to Charge McKinney, Texas
17 Dec 2010, 08:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / One of the biggest electricity suppliers in the US, TXU is currently engaged in an effort to expand its business to the new sector of electric vehicles charging. Having already committed to install ...
Ford Plant Turns Full Green
15 Dec 2010, 06:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In what American manufacturer Ford called today a world's first, news of the Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne getting ready to produce three versions of electric vehicles under one roof was mad...