Tesla Model S to Arrive in June and New Possible Contract for Mercedes-Benz EV
15 May 2012, 09:54 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Deliveries of Tesla’s Model S were expected to start this July, but apparently they are ahead of schedule with testing and certification and the car could be available for purchase as of next ...
Battery Manufacturer A123 Systems Reports €100 million Q1 Losses
15 May 2012, 08:53 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Lithium-ion battery manufacturer A123 Systems has officially posted a loss of €100 ($125) million and a revenue figure of €8.5 ($10.9) million for the first quarter of 2012. The total ...
Toyota to Only Sell 2,600 RAV4 EVs
15 May 2012, 08:24 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / After having unveiled the new RAV4 EV and its price of $49,800 (€38,200), Toyota have announced a sales target of around 2,600 units over the following three years. But why so few? Toyota co...
Renault Zoe Expected to Outsell Nissan Leaf in Europe
14 May 2012, 13:56 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Nissan Leaf has established itself as the reference vehicle in the sector, and with good reason, as it’s genuinely a good and well engineered car. Renault, however, have announced that the...
Egret One - Light-Weight Compact Electric Scooter
14 May 2012, 13:19 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The kick-scooters have been around for around 100 years. First they were hand made out of wood and rudimentary components. Nowadays, they are motorized and much more advanced also moving into the el...
Roskva Electric Motorbike Coming from Norway
14 May 2012, 13:18 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / If you thought that modern bikes, even electric ones, are too conventional-looking, you’ll be glad to know that a team from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences is developing a very inter...
The Third Fastest-Selling Car in the US Is the Toyota Prius
10 May 2012, 15:41 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / In a recent study by cars.com, they have gathered sales data from April and have compiled a list of the fastest selling cars in the US. From the study, it has become apparent that Americans love the...
Tesla Model S Deliveries Poised to Begin
10 May 2012, 13:16 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / To quench its investors’ thirst for blood after it announced a first-quarter net loss of $89.9 million, Tesla Motors has announced that the Model S electric sedan will begin its delivery sched...
Four EVs Planned by Nissan Over the Next Three Years
10 May 2012, 13:17 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Nissan Leaf was the first properly engineered electric car available for the masses. It sales figures are decent and on the rise, so Nissan has decided that it’s time to expand their EV ra...
BYD to Supply Ten Electric Buses to Windsor, Ontario
9 May 2012, 17:03 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It is still strange to us how the EV craze hasn’t caught on with city transportation services. Trolley buses are old fashioned and quite cumbersome and battery technology has advanced enough t...
Hydrogen Powered Hyundai iX35 Treks Europe
9 May 2012, 16:38 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The old continent has been successfully crossed by a pair of hydrogen-powered Hyundai iX35 from the North of Europe, in Oslo, to the very South, in Monaco - a journey of 2246 km (1,404 miles) which ...
Odd Safety Testing for the Nissan Leaf
9 May 2012, 16:07 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The danger of a high voltage electric shock is ever present in the minds of the people who drive today’s all-electric cars. Couple that with the fear of running out of juice and it may not be ...
Price of Lithium-Ion Batteries Set to Drop by 2015
8 May 2012, 11:18 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Ronald Berger Strategy Consultants (RBSC) - as their name suggests, a consultancy firm - have released their updated study on the lithium-ion battery industry for the automotive world. The segme...
CODA Sedan Finally Available for Purchase
8 May 2012, 09:49 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Though not a familiar name to most, Coda Automotive had officially announced the first deliveries of its electric sedan two months ago, but apparently, due to damaged parts being shipped from China,...
French Rugby Team Tests Renault Twizy
4 May 2012, 14:13 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Usually, when an automaker comes up with something that’s different, it has to immediately prove that it’s still a car. That’s the job of the marketing teams. Give them a budged, a...
Fiat 500E with Forklift Mechanicals - Cheap to Run
4 May 2012, 14:18 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Germans have a knack for re-engineering and redesigning pretty much anything, and their efforts are usually highly successful. So to is the case with their Fiat 500 conversion to electric power....
Volpe - The World’s Smallest Electric Car
2 May 2012, 09:06 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Meet the ‘Volpe’ - the world’s smallest electric car. The car is being made by Italian automotive design house Zagato and it’s set to go on sale in 2013 with a price of &euro...
Wireless EV Charging on the Move!
30 Apr 2012, 08:51 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The only real problems electric cars have nowadays are their (very) limited range and the bulk of their batteries denting performance and compromising driving dynamics. However, both these problems ...
Nissan Leaf Sales Hit 1,000 in Norway
27 Apr 2012, 12:04 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Nissan hasn’t exactly impressed with sales of the all-electric Leaf in America, despite the government incentives. However, the US isn’t the only place were EV are encouraged, as places ...
Spyshots: Audi R8 e-tron First Tests at Nurburgring
25 Apr 2012, 15:25 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Audi will put the R8 e-tron electric sportscar into production this year, offering it to a very limited clientele. The fleet of 1,000 cars will be a testbed used by the Ingolstadt carmaker to find o...