Two brothers living on the island of Guernsey (in the channel between France and England) have founded The Electric Vehicle Company and started transforming regular Smarts into electric vehicles.
Their first version of the electric Smart was powered by lead acid batteries and had a range between 20 -35 miles but after using lithium-ion batteries to [...]
Contributing editor for Mothor Authority Gus Chyba has tested the Tesla Roadster and talks about his great experience here. It is an article showing that green technology is the future and that there isn’t much time until more and more electric cars appear on the roads, either expensive sport ones or city cars.
An excellent article [...]
TH!NK city is a fully electric car produced in Norway and had its debut in the United Kingdom this month at the British International Motor Show. It will be shipped to UK and North American customers starting in r 2009 . Currently TH!NK city is produced at a maximum rate of 5/day but the producers [...]
Nissan X-Trail FCV (fuel cell vehicle) is an electric car powered by electric current created in a hydrogen fuel cell stack. The electricity is generated by a chemical reaction between the hydrogen, stored in a high pressure tank (700 bar), and oxygen. The result is electric current and water so there are no CO2 emissions.
According [...]
NICE Car Company is determined to transform a small, fuel-efficient car into an even greener car by turning it into an electric one. Fiat 500 was the perfect candidate so NICE Car Company will launch its Micro Vette Fiat e500 at the British Motor Show.
The Fiat e500 is powered by lithium-ion polymer batteries, has a [...]
After Tesla started shipping Tesla Roadster to its customers we’re happy to tell you another good news concerning electric sports cars. Lightning GT appeared today at British Motor Show, making a step forward in its evolution. Although they are not for sale yet you can make a 15000 pounds deposit in order to reserve one.
Although [...]
In Philippine the Philippine National Police is trying to save some gas money by using electric vehicles. For now they are only testing the neighborhood electric vehicles which have a top speed of 30 km/h (almost 19 mph ) and can carry up to 4 adults.
In Philippine the price of gas is 4.50$ a gallon [...]
All the non-believers will be astonished to find out that Tesla has started delivering its sport electric vehicle, Tesla Roadster, to its customers. 9 were already sent to California and more will be sent at an approximate rate of 4 cars per week. In December the rate should rise to 25 vehicles per week since [...]
Although Pivo 2 looks like it is inspired from a cartoon you might actually see this car on your street as soon as 2012. If you live in Portugal you might see it even earlier as Nissan and Renault have made an agreement with the Portugal government. The car will be launched there in 2011 [...]
In a recent interview for Handelsblatt newspaper Audi CEO Rupert Stadler declared Audi is not going to launch its compact car A1 in the United States but rather introduce new generations of bigger models like A4 or Q5.
The Americans still want big cars, but with increasing fuel efficiency.
Considering the rising oil price and decrease of [...]