3 May 2010, 09:52 UTC · By: Charles Darveight / ... This communist effort to "somehow" reduce car CO2 emissions in every part of the world - for which the whole planet is now trying to take part in - is hilarious, ridiculous and totally...
23 Apr 2010, 08:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American manufacturer Tesla announced yesterday it has been presented with the first production Lithium-ion cells manufactured by Panasonic. The partnership between the two will translate into Panas...
12 Apr 2010, 07:57 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Having a battery that can be removed and recharged just like a mobile phone at home or work, the Yogo is expected to meet success on the British market. If conventional electric scooters in the UK h...
11 Feb 2010, 09:31 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Rombat Bistrita, a Romanian battery manufacturer, is going to give it a try and step into the crowded hybrid battery manufacturing sector using an ambitious plan backed by European funds. According ...
10 Feb 2010, 09:56 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / LG Chem, which is currently the biggest battery maker in South Korea, will provide hybrid-car batteries to Changan Automobile starting the second half of this year. Citing an official statement issu...
27 Jan 2010, 13:14 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / If you’re one of those guys who thinks the electric vehicle could not become as usable as an internal combustion engined car, you might be wrong, as technical breakthroughs happen every day. J...
26 Jan 2010, 07:53 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / General Motors has just announced that it will start building electric motors to be installed in hybrids and electric vehicles, a move that will turn the company into the first US automaker to manuf...
21 Jan 2010, 11:49 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Reflecting on his Formula One return next season on his personal website, Michael Schumacher revealed that the 3-year period of time that he spent outside the racing world has only made him more hun...
21 Jan 2010, 10:46 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Japanese carmaker Toyota has secured a lithium supply contract in Argentina through one of its business arms, Toyota Tsusho Corp., as Reuters writes.
Toyota Tsusho Corp, a trading company partial...
5 Jan 2010, 13:20 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / A new legislation which came into effect on January 1st, 2010, stipulates that all waste industrial and automotive batteries will have to be recycled in the future at the manufacturer’s expens...
9 Dec 2009, 09:01 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / As electric cars become more and more important, Ford Motor Co is considering to continue investing in this sector. The amount, somewhere between $300 and $500 million, is to be directed towards Mic...
20 Nov 2009, 08:09 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Toyota recently signed a deal with Exide Technologies to provide around 105,000 batteries that are to be installed on the Highlander at the Princeton, Ind. plant. The battery manufacturer is already...
10 Nov 2009, 08:07 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / French carmaker Renault today announced that it will produce the electric Kangoo Express LCV at the MCA plant (Maubeuge Carrosserie Automobile) in northern France. Operations will begin in the first...
6 Nov 2009, 07:56 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Renault-Nissan today announced the signing of a letter of intent in Flins with the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and the French Strategic Investment Fund (FSI) for the creation of a new enti...
27 Oct 2009, 10:21 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Renault is one of the most active companies when it comes to electric vehicles and alliances with green partners around the world and the numerous zero-emission agreements signed in the last years a...
26 Oct 2009, 09:47 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / South Korea-based company SK Energy announced yesterday that it will supply lithium-ion batteries to Mitsubishi Fuso, a project of Daimler and Mitsubishi in which the former owns 85 percent. The bat...
20 Oct 2009, 10:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / True to its self proclaimed name of the world's first mass EV manufacturer, Japanese carmaker Nissan goes on with its plans to become the no. 1 player on the electric vehicle market. Aside from...
20 Oct 2009, 06:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / ... and no, they are not talking about taking their business into the virtual world. The Japanese manufacturer is looking, together with Sumitomo Corporation into ways to provide used lithium-ion ba...
5 Oct 2009, 07:23 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Panasonic is making another major step towards more advanced lithium-ion batteries for powering electric vehicles with a brand new technology. This time, the Japanese manufacturer has developed a ne...
28 Sep 2009, 07:50 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Volkswagen will sign an agreement with Varta Microbattery GmbH to supply batteries that will be used in electric vehicles manufactured by the German brand in the next few years. VW said in a release...