UPA Charging Stations for South Carolina
1 Dec 2010, 10:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With the first Chevy Volts rolling off the assembly lines yesterday, the world has learned that there is no turning back. EVs, whatever their form, are coming, and there is little anybody can do to ...
FleetWise EV300 Named Ford Transit EV Lead Customer
30 Nov 2010, 13:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American manufacturer Ford's first electric vehicle, the Transit Connect Electric, is continuing to cause agitation in the ranks of fleet operators, with more and more companies choosing the mo...
Audi Ingolstadt Gets More Solar Power
30 Nov 2010, 10:07 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Back in December 2009, German manufacturer Audi announced it will be installing 11,600 square meters (124,861 square feet) of solar panels at its headquarters in Ingolstadt, in an attempt to make th...
NLE to Buy 1,000 Electric Equinox SUVs
29 Nov 2010, 17:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Perhaps the most excited groups when it comes to the rise of the electric vehicles are companies, whose fleets, if converted to run exclusively on electricity, will transform from the money pit they...
Beijing Automobile Group Looks Set for EV Production
29 Nov 2010, 10:43 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Beijing Automobile Group Co., Ltd. (BAIC Group) will begin mass-production of all-electric vehicles in 2011, while only rolling out 30 units of the C60 electric cars this year. The company is p...
Coda Delays Electric Sedan Launch
29 Nov 2010, 07:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Of the companies set on taking a considerable share of the electric vehicle market, Coda announced today it is postponing for a short time the introduction of the Electric sedan model, due to the ne...
Chery to Launch EVs in the US in 2011
25 Nov 2010, 10:40 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / It was only a matter of time until Chinese carmakers made the United States a priority in terms of sales and new cars distribution. So, here you are, the wait is over as Chery Automobile, regarded a...
The Nissan Leaf Will Have Low Insurance Premiums
25 Nov 2010, 10:11 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / With all the talk of purchase price, charging costs, tax incentives, congestion charging exemptions and maintenance costs for EVs, there is one vehicle expense that people seem to have forgotten: in...
ZAP Signs Agreement With Shanghai Officials
23 Nov 2010, 18:13 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / Shanghai officials have contracted Santa-Rosa based EV maker ZAP to provide charging stations, battery swap facilities and maintenance depots for the city's commercial Yangpu district. ZAP w...
Automakers Push For Faster EV Chargers
23 Nov 2010, 16:16 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / Electric vehicles seem like a reasonable approach on the environmental problem everybody's been fussing about lately. Yet production and distribution of all-electric cars is slowed drastically ...
Nissan Leaf Gets EPA Rating: 99 MPG
23 Nov 2010, 06:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / And this is where thing begin to become blurry. The rise of the electric vehicle will likely cause headaches for consumers, who, knowing that the Leaf for instance is a pure EV, will have a hard tim...
Electric Toyota iQ Coming in 2012
22 Nov 2010, 14:38 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The fact that Toyota is slowly moving towards electric vehicles is not new, mostly because the partnership between the Japanese carmaker and Tesla Motors will give birth to an electric RAV4. This ti...
Hertz and CODA Automotive to Make New EV Sedan
22 Nov 2010, 14:20 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / CODA Automotive, a California-based electric car and battery company, has partnered with Hertz Corporation, the world's largest general use airport car rental brand, in order to manufacture an ...
Asia to Be Flooded with EVs
21 Nov 2010, 12:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / One of the fastest growing regions in the world when it comes to the automotive industry, the Asia Pacific region is sustaining its growth by taking a very lucrative approach to the future. As the e...
Mitsubishi Signs EV Treaty With Singaporean Government
19 Nov 2010, 13:38 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) and its distributor in Singapore Cycle & Carriage Automotive (CCA) have signed a cooperation agreement to popularize electric vehicles with the Singapore gove...
"Knitted" Smart 454 Concept EV
18 Nov 2010, 17:11 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / What does “American West Coast zest for life” combined with “German technology, design art, and granny's hand-knitted woollen socks” produce? It produces the "Knitt...
Volkswagen to Start Chinese EV Production by 2014
17 Nov 2010, 14:27 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / As we all know by now, Volkswagen intends to become the world's number one carmaker in a few years so, in order to reach this highly-optimistic goal, it tries to take advantage of each major ma...
Renault Electric Hot Hatch Coming
17 Nov 2010, 11:37 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / As we said in other articles, the hot hatch segment is one of the fastest developing areas of the market, with new and more powerful compact monsters coming to the world at an astonishing pace. R...
Renault-Nissan Needs to Produce 500,000 EVs Yearly
16 Nov 2010, 15:37 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / During a press conference with automotive reporters, Renault Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn said that they need to produce between 500,000 and 1 million electric vehicles each year if they want to be compe...
Ford Focus Electric Launch Markets Announced
16 Nov 2010, 07:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American manufacturer Ford is moving ahead with its plans that target the release of what will probably be its first electric vehicle for the general public, the Focus Electric. The carmaker announc...