Chevrolet Corvette C8 Is Underway, Hybrid Version In the Cards
2 Jun 2014, 11:53 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / In a recent Detroit Free Press interview, General Motors product chief Mark Reuss fired up the speculation machine with juicy info on the future eight-generation Chevrolet Corvette. The GM official ...
Tesla Model S Is SoCal's AAA Top Green Vehicle Of 2014
1 Jun 2014, 16:28 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / This year's edition of the AAA Automotive Club of Southern California Green Car Guide ranked the all-electric Tesla Model S P85 as the best green machine money can buy these days. More than 80 ...
Peugeot BB1 Concept – the Other Twizy That Never Came to Be
27 May 2014, 17:47 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / In an ideal (or maybe idealistic) world, good ideas should always be promoted. That's only half the truth though. They do need a helping hand, but only at the right time and place in order to b...
Glass Sphere Solar Cells Might Power Your EV Soon
27 May 2014, 14:08 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Yesterday we were showing you how using solar panels instead of asphalt would solve a lot of problems in creating a greener urban area. But if that seems rather a very expensive project, here’...
Texas Family Buys 50,000th Nissan Leaf in the US
26 May 2014, 16:47 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Every parent automaker likes to keep track of what its ‘siblings’ are doing in the world and then bring up facts and milestones into your face. Just like that coworker of yours who keep ...
Solar Roads Promising to Solve Humanity’s Energy Problems
26 May 2014, 15:33 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Electric vehicles look to be the future of our transportation now, unlike concepts from the 60’s, when they said we’ll drive rocket cars. But even though EVs have zero emissions, they st...
CARB’s Special Toyota RAV4 EV Collects Air Pollution Data
23 May 2014, 14:15 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / With so many automakers delivering their first batch of green cars to California, you can easily say the state is like a Mecca of clean driving, if you neglect some areas in Japan, like Toyota City ...
Intelligent Energy and Suzuki “Rivaling” Toyota With New Fuel Cell Unit
22 May 2014, 16:31 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota isn’t the only automaker to push the fuel cell technology into our life now as Intelligent Energy and Suzuki just finished developing a new compact fuel cell power unit at the 2014 Soci...
Fiat Loses $14k For Every 500e Sold
22 May 2014, 11:44 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / At least that's what Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne says so. The automotive group's godfather kind of predicted this since three years ago, when he declared to the media t...
New Carbon-Based Battery to Revolutionize Electric Vehicles
21 May 2014, 18:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Everything from your smartphone to the Nissan Leaf in the parking lot is powered by rechargeable Lithium-ion batteries, in which lithium ions move from the negative electrode to the positive one dur...
Tesla Model S 60kWh Now Available in China
21 May 2014, 08:38 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The least expensive version of the Model S luxury four-door electric sedan is now available for order on the Chinese market. Customers that place orders for the 60kWh model now will have their vehic...
What to Do When Your Tesla Model S Runs Out of Power
19 May 2014, 09:17 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / We've all been there, stranded on the shoulder of the road, without as little as a sip of gas in the car's tank. But that's a situation electric vehicle owners experience much more of...
The Classic Meyers Manx Dune Buggy Gets Electric Counterpart and it Sucks
16 May 2014, 15:48 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Meyers Manx dune buggies are probably the most famous recreational vehicles ever - you get to see them near Californian beaches, in movies, TV shows, as toys and even in Grand Theft Auto. But is it ...
Tesla Drops Model E Nameplate
16 May 2014, 13:55 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Slated for mass production by the end of 2016, Tesla's third generation vehicle won't bear the Model E moniker, which is a registered trademark of the Ford Motor Company. As it happens,...
Tesla Model S Reaches Chinese Dealerships
16 May 2014, 08:38 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Don't be fooled by the U.S. license plate on this factory fresh Model S. The luxury electric sedan you can see in the attached photo gallery is, as a matter of fact, the first Tesla Model S imp...
Rolls-Royce Considering Electric Power Once Again
15 May 2014, 17:11 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Just when we thought Rolls-Royce would put the electric propulsion idea in an ice box for a while, the company seems to bring this back into the headlines. Richard Collar, Head of Bespoke Sa...
Elon Musk Shares Thoughts On Tesla's Early Days
15 May 2014, 14:33 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / During the two-day green energy business summit at the American manufacturer's assembly plant in Fremont, California, the Tesla CEO didn't offer any further info on the upcoming Model X fu...
2015 Chevrolet Spark EV To Get New Battery Pack
14 May 2014, 17:46 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / General Motors is making final preparations before updating the Chevrolet Spark EV. The Detroit giant announced that its Brownstown Battery Assembly finished the development of an all-new battery sy...
Toyota Stopped Caring for EVs, Concentrates on Fuel Cell Vehicles Instead
14 May 2014, 14:41 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Tesla recently said their contract with Toyota is about to expire this year and the company’s last electric vehicle in production RAV4 EV won’t receive any more batteries so it will have...
Cadillac Dealers Offered $5,000 Incentive To Promote the ELR
14 May 2014, 14:01 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / General Motors announced it will pay a cool five grand to every dealership that designates the 2014 Cadillac ELR luxury hybrid as a test-drive car. The incentive will be awarded only if the vehicle ...