Obama Victory Means Sustained Support for EVs and CAFE Standards
7 Nov 2012, 10:40 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / If elected, Mitt Romney had his own agenda and views on what should be done with the budget for ‘green developments’, and he would have not supported just EVs, opting instead to not conc...
First Tesla Superchargers Now Open for Public Use
6 Nov 2012, 13:28 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Range anxiety is one of the main points against the current crop of EVs, as they simply lack the battery capacity to be used anywhere else, aside from a city environment. However, Tesla set out to c...
Twizy Registers Hefty Sales, but Renault ZE Range Still Struggling
6 Nov 2012, 12:50 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The Twizy, Renault’s electric city vehicle that’s classified as a quadricycle has registered impressive sales, pleasing both customers and its creators, but the overall sales of Renault&...
Volvo Developing 1.5 Hour Three-Phase Fast Charger
6 Nov 2012, 08:38 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While modern EVs don’t really have as many limitations as some conventional power advocates would lead you to believe, they do suffer from limited range and long recharge times. We’ve al...
All-Electric Toyota GT-86 Laps Suzuka in 2:57
5 Nov 2012, 12:57 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We knew this day would come, when somebody would rip out the 2.0-liter boxer engine, out of a Toyota GT-86 and replace it with a new engine, yet this is not exactly what we had in mind when we pictu...
Classic Fiat 500 Gets EV Conversion
5 Nov 2012, 12:41 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / You may have read a recent editorial we posted, where we argued that it is better to get a classic car, rip its old and dirty engine out, and fill it full of batteries to power an electric motor. Yo...
Polish EV - Romet E4 All-Electric City Car
5 Nov 2012, 12:27 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While Poland may not be the first place which springs to mind when talking about EVs, it seems that the Poles are trying to change that, with cars like the Romet E4, an all-electric city car which l...
2012 Model-Year - Greenest in US Automotive History
5 Nov 2012, 10:29 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The number of green cars, as well as their efficiency numbers, are on the rise, on US roads, and it is beginning to have a widespread effect throughout the country. According to automotive analyst A...
Tesla Roadster Replacement Coming No Sooner than 2015
5 Nov 2012, 09:11 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Tesla Motors’ first car, the Elise-based Roadster was and still is a unique car, offering emissions two-seater fun, in a compact (and very expensive) package. The fact that they managed to sel...
BMW i4 Reportedly Coming to 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show
31 Oct 2012, 16:42 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Recent reports suggested BMW was pulling out of the ‘i’ venture. These might have been exaggerated, but even so, we were surprised to hear they might be showing a new concept car next mo...
Lithuanian Company Gives First Renault Twingo New Purpose as EV
31 Oct 2012, 15:21 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The first generation Renault Twingo was a reinvention of the quintessential small, light and nimble French hatchback, and it was launched in an era when cars were getting duller, heavier and larger....
Toyota’s iiMo Concept Wants to Make You Happy!
31 Oct 2012, 14:15 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Toyota sees the future of the car as a semi-autonomous and very efficient EV, in the form of the iiMo concept. It was first shown last year, when it was called the Fun-Vii, yet whey they revealed it...
Reserve Your Very Own Renault ZOE for £49
30 Oct 2012, 16:53 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The all-electric Renault ZOE is set to be launched in Europe and the UK in the spring of 2013. However, prospective UK buyers can now reserve an example, by making a deposit of £49. With a sta...
Ford Focus EV Now Available for Lease at $199/Month - Same as Nissan Leaf
30 Oct 2012, 13:36 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Lease rates for the Nissan Leaf have been steadily falling ever since its launch, and now you can lease a Leaf, for a period of 24 or 36 months, with 199$/month. Now, Ford is fighting back, and appa...
New Nissan Leaf Ad Is Simple and Straightforward
30 Oct 2012, 13:02 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Instead of relying on complicated concepts and ideas to get a car ad to work at its peak intended efficiency, as some manufacturers tend to do, when they try to hard to sell a car as being in a cert...
Jay Leno Is Impressed by Tesla’s Model S
30 Oct 2012, 09:41 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Jay Leno’s opinion on cars matters to a lot of people, and with good reason, as he always knows what he’s talking about, and always seems to ask the right questions - the same questions ...
Can You Move a Fridge with a Golf Cart?
29 Oct 2012, 16:45 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The answer appears to be yes, as this man proves. You do need an extra set of wheels underneath the fridge, but it seems like a perfectly feasible way to move it around. Furthermore it is all-green ...
Mitt Romney Promises Reevaluation of Efficiency Standards and EVs
29 Oct 2012, 14:25 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Mitt Romney doesn`t really agree with the way the Obama administration has handled the idea of new and stricter fuel efficiency standards, as well as its outright support for EVs, virtually ignoring...
BYD Zero-Emission London Cabs Coming
25 Oct 2012, 15:13 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Chinese carmaker BYD has recently signed a memorandum of understanding with British company Green Tomato Cars which will see the two offer the first fleet of all-electric taxis for London. BYD wi...
Audi Reportedly Stopping R8 e-tron Project
25 Oct 2012, 14:00 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / What do you do after you’ve created the fastest production electric vehicle ever to go around the Nurburgring? You sell it to people at a huge price of course. That was the original plan, t...