Why Ford's EVs Have the Charge Ports on the Left Front Side
28 May 2011, 07:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / When car manufacturers are producing internal combustion engined cars, they seem to be placing the fuel tank access funnel wherever they see fit. On the right or on the left, the single thing that s...
Renault Jump Starts EV Advertising Campaign
27 May 2011, 08:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Although on the market for some time now, the world's first mass-produced electric vehicles, the Chevrolet Volt and the Nissan Leaf, have lacked a well-planned, coordinated advertising campaign...
US Buys Think EVs
27 May 2011, 03:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid certainly stole the show this week, after it managed to become the first vehicle of its kind to be officially purchased by the US government as a result of presiden...
Homeland Security Bill Hits EV Funding
26 May 2011, 05:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / So, what would you have: more money for disaster relief, or more money to be used for the development of advanced technologies for the vehicles of the future? The answer to this question, at least f...
Nissan Leaf, the First EV to Get 5 Stars Euro NCAP Rating
25 May 2011, 08:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The European car safety guru, the Euro NCAP, released today the results of a new series of tests it conducted on the cars of the moment. Among them, the Nissan Leaf, the first mass-produced pure ele...
By 2020, World to Buy 1 Million EVs a Year
25 May 2011, 05:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Regardless of the name of the institution or organization doing a study on the future impact of electric vehicles, the conclusion seems to be the same: EVs will catch on, slowly, but once they do, t...
SIM-LEI EV, 200 Miles on a Single Charge by 2013
24 May 2011, 11:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Range, the ultimate goal of the current electric vehicle industry. Increasing the number of miles an electric car can travel on a single charge has become one of the most important aspects of this s...
Honda Extends E-KIZUNA in Saitama
24 May 2011, 11:12 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Japanese automakers have a very interesting philosophy when it comes to making the road ahead easier for the EVs they'd launch in the near future. Whereas, for instance, GM focuses more on the ...
Buy an EV, Get the Federal Rebate on the Spot
21 May 2011, 07:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There's a giant tidal motion rocking the automotive industry these days, as the world is getting ready to make room for a flood of electric of hybrid vehicles. The manufacturers are ready, the ...
US Govt. to Buy First 100 EVs
20 May 2011, 09:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's always a pleasure to do business with a government, regardless on where it is located on the globe. However, that pleasure is even bigger when your government decides not only to endorse y...
Nissan Leaf Gets Solar Power
20 May 2011, 09:17 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Stellar Solar, a San Diego County-based residential and commercial solar photovoltaic design and installation company recently decided to start an automotive project that would allow it to see just ...
Germany Determined to Make EVs Work
17 May 2011, 07:05 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A new battle of the giants, a historic one, if you like, is in the making these days. The US and Germany has engaged a while back in a bitter race, each hoping to become a new heaven for electric ve...
Nissan Leaf Available for Order in Spain
16 May 2011, 12:43 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The Nissan Leaf has added another market on its order books, with the electric vehicle now being available in Spain, following its introduction on multiple European markets, as well as in Japan and ...
Audi Trains Dealers to Handle Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
16 May 2011, 08:11 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Audi is making efforts to train its worldwide personnel on how to deal with hybrid and electric vehicles, with the automaker’s trainers at the Service Training Centers in Ingolstadt and Neckar...
Sneek Peek Inside Audi R8 e-tron Production Process
12 May 2011, 11:08 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Audi is currently preparing for the production of the R8 e-tron sports car, a vehicle that is scheduled to be launched in late 2012. The company’s quattro GmbH division is currently creating t...
BYD Celebrates a Year of EV Taxis, Promises Invasion of Electric Cars
29 Apr 2011, 09:31 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / When it comes to the hopes and dreams built around the electric vehicle sector, no manufacturer in the world seems to have as many as the Chinese from BYD. With nearly all their attention and money ...
Better Place to Bring Battery Switch into China
28 Apr 2011, 11:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Being, for now, the single company that offers a viable battery switch solutions for electric vehicles, Better Place is looking for new markets to expand its operations, in the hope that the future ...
Study Finds Americans Would Like to Buy EVs, Few Plan To
27 Apr 2011, 05:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / An avalanche of studies conducted in the past few years in more than one automotive market has flooded the public awareness, trying to shape, through their findings, the auto world of tomorrow. Most...
Mitsubishi i to Be Deployed in Hawaii First
23 Apr 2011, 07:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It has been a busy week for Japanese manufacturer Mitsubishi, who has been hard at work trying to let the world know that it is ready to launch the North American spec i electric vehicle. In the las...
Google Maps to Show EV Charging Stations
22 Apr 2011, 08:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As a natural evolution of the efforts made in the past few years to create an electric vehicle charging infrastructure, news of Google taking charge of letting customers know where they can find cha...