Nissan Leaf Ready for Police Duty in Portugal
11 Jul 2012, 15:27 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While the Nissan Leaf has already found uses as a limo and taxi, the Portuguese have decided to use the Japanese EV as a squad car, for the country’s police force. It is a world first, and the...
Renault Twizy Windows - Finally a Reality
10 Jul 2012, 13:33 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The fact that Renault’s Twizy lacks windows may have turned some potential buyers away from the car, as it would only really be practical and enjoyable on a warm and not-at-all wet day. Howeve...
Renault Twizy - Gordini Conversion Looks Stunning!
10 Jul 2012, 11:28 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While Renault sadly hasn’t planned a hot version of the Twizy, that hasn’t stopped a Gordini fan from giving his very own Twizy the full blue exterior with the two trademark white stripe...
GreenTech Automotive Blessed by Bill Clinton - Production Commences
9 Jul 2012, 14:17 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While Green Tech Automotive is a relatively unknown name on the increasingly-busy EV marketplace. The company was founded in 2006 and up until recently, they had yet to begin production of their fir...
Johnny Smith’s Flux Capacitor - Enfield 8000-Based Performance EV
9 Jul 2012, 12:51 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It is projects like this that make us proud to be motoring journalists. One man with an excellent idea is given the financial backing he needs to make his dream a reality. The project is undertaken ...
Annual EV Sales to Surpass 152,000 Units in China by 2017
9 Jul 2012, 11:01 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The global EV market is on the rise, and its rising at a rate which is already surpassing predictions made 10 years ago. Since this is now a global trend, and China is a huge player on the global ca...
Mercedes-Benz SLS E-Cell at Silveretta E-Car Rally
9 Jul 2012, 09:38 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Silveretta E-Car Rally, now in its third edition, is a special type of rally which is designed to test and push EVs to their constructive limits, in order to force problems to appear, then allow...
Ozzie Zehner’s ‘Green Illusions’ Tells Us Not to Support EVs
9 Jul 2012, 09:13 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The EV craze is sweeping the world at an unprecedented rate. Each day brings forth new ways of using electricity as a means of propulsion more and more efficiently, it being one of the fields of act...
Better Place EVs Surpass 1-Million Km Mark
9 Jul 2012, 08:45 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / You may remember Better Place, a company operating battery swapping stations (mainly) in Israel, and more recently in Denmark, using Renault EVs since the start of their program. Now, their entire f...
Roskva Electric Motorbike Revealed in Norway
9 Jul 2012, 08:20 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Roskva electric motorbike was a very promising project undertaken by some very talented Norwegian engineering students. Well, while we had only previously seen the bike in sketches or 3D models,...
Audi's R8 EV Nurburgring Fail
8 Jul 2012, 17:24 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Once upon a time, there was a 10-year-old first-born boy of a Middle Eastern dictator. And in his father’s land (at that time), there were no such things as electric cars or fast diesels. Natu...
Dutch EV Taxi Service Racks Up 250,000 Km
7 Jul 2012, 11:56 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / At the end of 2011, the Dutch capital, Amsterdam, started its first electric taxi program, with a total of twelve Nissan Leafs, which included such amenities as onboard Wi-Fi and a tablet for browsi...
Mazda 2 / Demio Goes Electric
6 Jul 2012, 14:49 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Mazda is a manufacturer priding itself on being different, having chosen to do the SKYACTIV program, instead of hybrids, EVs and hydrogen powered cars. Well, not any more, as they have now revealed ...
Electric Citroen Berlingo Goes From Berlin to Paris on One Charge!
6 Jul 2012, 14:23 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / If you thought that the largest battery pack found on the Tesla Model S (85 kWh) was big, then you’ll be very surprised to know that you can safely have nearly twice that capacity, in a car th...
Take a Ride in the Brilliant EV1
6 Jul 2012, 11:37 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / GM’s EV1 is the main 'protagonist' of one of the saddest stories in the history of the automotive industry. It was heralded as the first commercially viable and mass-marketed electri...
South African EV Maker Optimal Energy Goes Out of Business
6 Jul 2012, 10:39 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While the number of EVs bought around the world is rising increasingly quickly, not all manufacturers of electric cars are doing well. Sadly, South Africa-based EV maker Optimal Energy has gone out ...
CODA EV Sedan - More Efficient than EPA Ratings Suggest
6 Jul 2012, 09:44 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / A New York Times reviewer, who has recently driven the all-electric CODA sedan, has been very impressed with its range, which exceeds the 141 km (88 mile) rating bestowed onto it by the Environmenta...
Lola-Drayson EV Le Mans Prototype Breaks Record at Goodwood
6 Jul 2012, 09:06 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Do you want to hear the roaring racing engine of this Le Mans prototype, built around a Lola chassis? Well, sadly, all you will be able to hear is the sound of pebbles, hitting the inside cover of t...
Brammo Empulse RR Takes on 600cc Superbikes
5 Jul 2012, 14:50 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Brammo Empulse RR, the racing version of the standard Empulse was recently put up against some 600cc superbikes, during a practice session at Portland International Raceway. Despite being ri...
89 Ford Focus EVs Find Owners in June
5 Jul 2012, 14:20 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Ford Focus EV, which we praised for not being EV-like in any way aesthetically, looking even better than the regular conventionally-powered variant, to our eyes has now been on sale for only two...