Electric Rolls-Royce 102EX Scrapped
22 May 2012, 07:39 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Rolls-Royce customer is discerning, well-mannered and well-dressed man sitting at the corner table with a glass of Martell. Sadly, nowadays the likes of 50 Pence or Diddly Puff ride in the back ...
EVs Now Tax Exempt in the Indian State of Maharashtra
22 May 2012, 07:38 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Maharashtra is the second-most populous state of India, with a population 112-million and a territory 307,731 km2 (118,816 square miles). It is also one of the states which contribute the most ...
Green Vehicles Could Dent UK Government Revenue
21 May 2012, 11:17 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We genuinely live in dark times. Just take a really good look at the world and the state it's in. Despite governments around the world claiming to promote greener motoring, do you really see th...
UK Study Says Businesses are EV-Reluctant
21 May 2012, 09:57 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / A recent UK study of 1000 businesses, carried out by ALD Automotive, revealed that 60% of company drivers would not swap their conventionally powered car with an electric one. The main disadvanta...
Tesla Model S Reportedly Exceeds Range Expectations
21 May 2012, 09:19 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / With their first car, the Tesla Roadster, the Silicon Valley-based manufacturer claimed it was at its 2008 model was at least twice as energy efficient as a Toyota Prius. With battery technology, an...
Battery Swapping - The Way into the Future for the EV
21 May 2012, 09:07 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Well, according to California-based company Better Place (BP), it can and does, in Israel. The mission of BP is to create a proper infrastructure for EVs, but aside from what we’ve already hea...
SAE ‘Formula Hybrid’ Won by Birgham Young University Team
21 May 2012, 08:25 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Hybrid made their way slowly but surely into our daily lives, now so many manufacturers are offering a hybrid, if one was to buy a hybrid, the choice would be confusing. Hybrid powertrains have m...
In-Road EV Charging on the Go - On Its Way
21 May 2012, 07:31 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The biggest hurdle faced by today’s EVs is the bulky batteries they have to carry around everywhere they go. Not only are batteries, even the most modern of them, extremely heavy, but also exp...
A Postman’s Dream - The M3E Tilting Electric Trike
18 May 2012, 16:11 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The designer of this electric trike, Simon Williams, is an Australian inventor who, in the interest of research, worked as a postman for 18 months so that he could properly understand the needs of a...
Mitsubishi Readies i-MiEV Evolution for Pikes Peak 2012
18 May 2012, 14:24 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Mitsubishi i-MiEV is a rather bland-looking electric city runabout, created so that people can bore you with range and economy figures which will never be achieved in the real world. The i-MiEV ...
Awesome RYNO Electric Unicycle
18 May 2012, 11:57 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The RYNO is, in our eyes, one of the coolest looking vehicles ever made! It looks like something you could strap guns or missiles on the sides and cyborgs would start appearing from the future (Term...
L.A. Drivers Embracing EVs More Than the National Average
18 May 2012, 11:51 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / US driver are embracing EVs more by the day, and even more so in Los Angeles than in any other American city. Apparently, L.A. drivers travel further than in any other city, and they also charge mor...
First Coda Electric Sedan Delivered to AEP Ohio Fleet
18 May 2012, 09:41 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Coda sedan was supposed to be released nearly 3 months ago, however, due to a problem with some of the parts shipped from China, the launch was postponed. The first 10 cars were put on sale i...
Hawaii - US Leader in EV Purchases
18 May 2012, 08:50 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / In the US as a whole, EVs account for a negligibly small percentage of 0.1% (17,345) out of a total of 12,8 million vehicles sold. That’s a very small percentage, however, that doesn’t m...
Siemens eHighway - Cross Between a Truck and a Tram
17 May 2012, 13:52 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We’ve all seen trolley buses and trams drawing their power from the power grid, without the need to carry cumbersome, heavy batteries around. The system has been in use for decades, and there&...
Electric BMW M3 Set for Pikes Peak
17 May 2012, 07:47 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We still associate EVs with economical driving, saving the planet and whatnot, but not everybody agrees with this point of view and some people take standard cars with conventional engines, strip ev...
Official Teaser - Audi Urban Electric Bike
16 May 2012, 13:44 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The new Urban Electric Bike by Audi seems like a lot of fun, but we think it’s a got a lot more than that going for it, as it's a bit more extreme than the similar offering from Smar...
Biiista - Properly Different Electric Motorbike
16 May 2012, 08:51 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We here at autoevolution love electric motorbikes, as we think they are a very efficient and quick way for us to transport ourselves into a greener future, and since such bikes are no longer convent...
Honda Reveals UNI-CUB Personal Mobility Machine
15 May 2012, 15:43 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We present to you Honda’s new UNI-CUB Personal Mobility Machine. It’s the result of extensive outside-the-box thinking and it couldn’t have come from anywhere else but Japan. Th...
Mercedes-Benz Rumored to Be Working on Two Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Cars
15 May 2012, 12:01 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / With the recent EV and plug-in hybrid craze which has literally swept the world and has permanently changed our understanding of hybrids and EVs and how and where their very diverse applications in ...