Fisker Reacts to Recent Karma Fire - Battery Not to Blame!
14 Aug 2012, 11:35 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Fisker has officially issued a response to the recent fire-related incident from Woodside, California, regarding one of their Karmas. It took place this weekend and according to Fisker officials, th...
Holden Commodore EV Travels 1,886 Km in 24 Hours
13 Aug 2012, 10:02 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / You may remember that a while back we posted an article about the Renault Zoe which had managed to travel 1,590 km (994 miles) in 24 hours, beating the old record by around 300 km (186 miles). Now, ...
Proof That Fiat Will Make All-Electric 500E
10 Aug 2012, 08:25 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Fiat 500 is definitely a phenomenon, and one which seems to be appreciated by both US and European customers, despite the substantial discrepancy in car cultures. Now that Fiat has a 500C and a ...
Lithium-Ion Batteries to Be Three Times Cheaper in 2020
9 Aug 2012, 10:35 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While you may think no dramatic reduction in the cost of batteries is possible within the next 10 years, you’d be wron, according to McKinsey Quarterly, who have done a study on the matter. Th...
Mitsubishi Stops Production of Peugeot and Citroen-Badged i-MiEVs
9 Aug 2012, 10:00 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Mitsubishi signed an agreement with the PSA group, back in 2008, and the Japanese manufacturer started making and selling the Peugeot and Citroen versions of their i-MiEV. However, neither of those ...
Organic Transit Vehicles ELF - Solar-Assisted Trike
9 Aug 2012, 09:22 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We here at autoevolution strongly support the integration of small electric motors into bicycles, because we say that the electric motor is perfectly suited for that application. On a pedal-powered ...
Audi R8 e-Tron Nurburgring Lap Onboard
8 Aug 2012, 13:08 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Audi’s R8 e-Tron, while not being a particularly good performance machine, setting a time of 8:09, it is nevertheless a great achievement for the world of EVs, as it seems to be a genuinely ex...
All-Electric Motorbikes Now Eligible for $2,500 US Federal Incentive
8 Aug 2012, 07:46 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / This is the piece of news which all prospective EV moto buyers from the US were waiting for. The Senate Finance Committee has just approved a $2,500 federal credit incentive for all-electric motorbi...
Stunning Danish EV - ECOmove QBEAK Revealed · Video
8 Aug 2012, 07:30 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It’s not often that we come across a small EV made out of plastic that excites us so much. The Danish-designed and built ECOmove QBEAK is, first and foremost, a stunning piece of design, radic...
UK Plug-In Sales On the Upswing
7 Aug 2012, 14:11 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The year 2011 should have represented the year when plug-in cars took off in the UK, and signs in the first part of 2011 were good, with 680 such vehicles registered until June 30th. However, the se...
Australian Government Considering EVs For Own Fleet
6 Aug 2012, 13:34 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Back in June, Australian Government officials stated that they would be considering the adoption of EVs into their own fleets if a two-week trial would be successful. Well, now that trial is over an...
Ford Only Sells 38 Focus EVs in July
6 Aug 2012, 12:31 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It seems that there is a serious problem with the pure-EV market. Not only are the sales of the Nissan Leaf falling quite abruptly, but so too are the the sales of Ford’s all-electric Focus, w...
Hiriko Fold EV Shows Off in Spain
6 Aug 2012, 12:06 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / You may remember the rather clever Hiriko Fold, an excellent EV urban solution, useful for the most congested urban centers in Europe, as well as the world. Thankfully, it is not ironically named, l...
Saab Sale Story Still Not Settled
6 Aug 2012, 11:26 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It seems that the Saab story is still not settled, despite the fact that National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) were supposed to have already closed the deal. However, according to saabsunited.com,...
Flammable Interior Materials to Blame for BYD EV Fire
3 Aug 2012, 16:09 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While everybody may have jumped to conclusions when they first heard about this rather unfortunate incident from China, when a BYD E6 EV which was being used as a taxi, caught fire after being hit b...
Toyota’s All-Electric RAV4 Beats All Its Rivals on Range
3 Aug 2012, 09:46 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While you may be thinking that putting an electric motor into what is a moderately-sized SUV is not a particularly efficient way to move around, as the taller and more blunt body shape will create s...
US to Have 4.1 Million Charging Stations by 2017
2 Aug 2012, 10:18 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / As the number of EVs on the road steadily grows, the network of charging stations needs to keep up. In the US, there are currently 10,000 public charging stations, as well as numerous others which c...
Tennessee University Shows Off Add-On Plug-In Hybrid Kit
2 Aug 2012, 09:44 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We’ve always said that instead of engineering and building new cars, we could convert our existing ones to run on electricity or whatever is greener and more freely available. It is a great id...
Volt Considerably Outsells Leaf in July
2 Aug 2012, 09:13 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It seems that the Chevrolet Volt range-extened EV has gotten a considerable sales lead over the all-electric Nissan Leaf, despite the Japanese car arriving on the market first. After a less than con...
Robert Llewellyn Tries Autonomous EV Pod at Heathrow Airport
2 Aug 2012, 08:12 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It seems that the next obvious step in transportation will be vehicles that will drive themselves safely and efficiently. Now, while you may think that it is a thing of the future, you’ll be h...