First Electric Ford Focus is Delivered to Customer
29 May 2012, 09:31 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The current Ford Focus isn’t a looker by any standards, specially not compared with the facelifted version of the previous generation, with its long C-pillar mounted rear lights and smart fron...
Yamaha R6-Based EV Gets Awesome Carbon Fiber Look
29 May 2012, 08:38 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Yamaha R6 is a pretty serious bike, and it was the first 600cc production bike to break the 100hp barrier, with the latest version pushing closer to 130hp. It was also part of a scandal which en...
BYD Stocks Drop After EV Taxi Fire Incident
29 May 2012, 08:36 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Stock values are always a sensitive matter, with their value constantly changing, according to what the market is doing, and what the company is doing at the same time, as negative events tend to ma...
Nissan Leaf Predicted to Retain 95% of Its Value After One Year
29 May 2012, 08:35 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Within its first year, a vehicle loses on average, around 30% of its value, and after two more years, some cars lose up to 50%, or more. However, investing in an all-electric Nissan Leaf is a safe b...
Rimac Concept One Electric Supercar at Villa d'Este
28 May 2012, 17:34 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Everybody from BMW to Lexus had something to show the rich people gathered during the 2012 Concorso d'Eleganza at Villa d'Este in Cernobbio, near Como. Except nobody was expecting to see a...
New Fuel Cell Mercedes Citaro Buses Enter Service in Switzerland
28 May 2012, 15:07 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The hydrogen fuel cell, we think, is still the best way to power us into the future, cleanly, efficiently and very simply, by combining hydrogen and oxygen and capturing the electrical charge of the...
EVGT-40 - Ford GT-40 Inspired EV
28 May 2012, 13:56 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / You may have noticed that EVs nowadays still aren’t lookers, so if you want style while you’re driving completely combustion-free, you’re not spoiled for choice. It would be nice t...
EV Maker Coda Is a ‘GOOD’ Company According to IBM
28 May 2012, 13:27 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Coda is an EV manufacturer which uses Chinese parts imported from China to make its Mitsubishi-based sedan. The company is based in Los Angeles and has only recently launched its first ever model, t...
Canadian Man Pulls Electric Car On Foot for 475km / 295miles
28 May 2012, 12:30 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Despite driving one of the most efficient vehicles on the road today, and doing so without hurting a single leaf or blade of grass, Canadian Marcelo da Luz, the designer and builder of his very own ...
BMW’s ‘Born Electric’ World Tour Set to Start this June, in Rome
28 May 2012, 12:00 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / BMW is organizing a year-long tour in which their two new ‘green’ offerings will be showcased, despite the fact that they are blue. Apparently, BMW consider that their ‘i’ li...
Americans Giving Up Gas Guzzlers in Favor of Smaller, More Efficient Cars
28 May 2012, 11:59 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Americans are world famous for their simply monstrous sedans and pick-ups, which used to be twice as heavy their European or Japanese counterparts. This ‘upsizing’ trend was fueled (lite...
EVs Accounting for Only 0.2% of New Car Sales in France
28 May 2012, 10:27 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Despite Renault being all for the development of EVs and getting them onto the market as quickly as possible, and their group partners, Nissan with their Leaf being already there, its a tad strange ...
Low Emission Vehicle Market Will Be Worth €82 / $103 Billion
28 May 2012, 10:20 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The market for EVs, hybrids and all other forms of low emission, alternative means of propulsion are slowly gaining ground, with hybrids currently being the most common amongst them. According to a ...
Brammo Empulse R - First Commercial
28 May 2012, 10:17 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The awesome Brammo Empulse R superbike, which was launched over a month ago, has now gotten its first ad, which, unlike the bike itself, is quite classic, one could say. It features the rider, on th...
Drunk Driver in GT-R Causes Fatal Accident in China - EV Taxi Catches Fire
28 May 2012, 08:37 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Nissan GT-R is a great handling car. It’s partly down to its excellent chassis with all-wheel drive traction and partly down to its very clever electronic brain which always manages to kee...
Local Scottish Authorities to Use 12 Nissan LEAFs
25 May 2012, 12:47 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Reducing one’s carbon footprint is the IT thing these days, and, to promote it in Scotland, some of the local authorities have adopted the Nissan Leaf as their daily driver, so a first batch o...
First Year of EcoCar2 Won by Mississippi State University
25 May 2012, 09:25 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / EcoCar2 is a competition which challenges 15 US universities to “reduce the environmental impact of a Chevrolet Malibu without compromising performance, safety and consumer acceptability&rdquo...
Next-Gen Car Batteries Research Will Take 10 Years
25 May 2012, 09:13 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The current generation of batteries still aren’t compact enough, and still can’t store enough energy to give EVs the range of a conventionally-powered vehicle. Lithium-Ion batteries have...
Washington State Electric Highway to Be Expanded
25 May 2012, 08:50 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Washington State Electric Highway is a very extensive network of EV fast charging systems, dotted along Intestate 5 and running the length of 3 states. When completed, it will span the 2080Km (1...
Stop Eating Beef - It's Killing the Earth More that Your Car
25 May 2012, 07:59 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Have you ever wondered of the environmental impact of each kilo of meat you eat? Well, apparently, Dutch and Austrian scientists have applied some science to the question and they’ve come up w...