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Mitsubishi 'i' Electric Car: Ultimate Guide, What You Need To Know

The 2012 Mitsubishi "i" electric car has been around in one form or another for several years now, so there's a lot of information to keep track of. The tiny egg-shaped electric car, with four doors and four seats, is currently on sale in the U.S. It's been on sale in Japan for some time now, and...

February 14, 2013 by Antony Ingram 9

Your Guide To Long-Distance Electric Car Publicity Drives

March 21, 2012 6

Chevrolet Volt: Ultimate Guide To Everything You Need To Know

September 16, 2011

Europe Gets Chevy Volts In 2012, Most In Drag As Opel Amperas

August 9, 2011 1

Nissan's City of St. Petersburg cargo ship for transporting Leaf electric cars

Nissan Goes Toyota One Better With Cooler-Looking Cargo Ship (Video)

Call it the battle of the clean-car cargo ships. First Toyota retrofitted its Auriga Leader car transporter ship with a diesel hybrid powertrain, allowing some energy to be... August 8, 2011 by John Voelcker 6

Chevrolet Beat EV electric vehicle with GM executives, India, June 2011

Will GM's First All-Electric Car Be A Chevy Spark Minicar?

Sometimes news comes out of adding up little pieces of information. Doing that with a few items from the past week, we're beginning to wonder if General Motors might launch... August 8, 2011 by John Voelcker 10

2012 Toyota RAV4 EV To Be Built In Toyota Plant, Not By Tesla

This much we know already: Tesla Motors will build battery packs and electric drive systems for the upcoming 2012 Toyota RAV4 EV electric crossover. What we didn't know was... August 5, 2011 by John Voelcker 5

2008 Ford F-150 pickup with ALTe extended-range electric powertrain

ALTe To Test Extended-Range Electric Retrofit In Ford F-150 Pickup Truck

Electric vehicles of various sorts are just now showing up in dealer showrooms. But that leaves a quarter of a billion gasoline vehicles running around U.S. roads. What to do... August 5, 2011 by John Voelcker 8

2011 Fisker Karma plug-in sports sedan at Fisker Santa Monica, July 2010, from WebRidesTV

Next Fisker Model: Wagon-Crossover At Frankfurt This Fall? (Video)

Fisker Automotive still hasn't seen fit to let more than a small handful of journalists drive its extended-range electric 2012 Fisker Karma luxury sports sedan, and not yet... August 4, 2011 by John Voelcker 5

BMW i Launch Event, Frankfurt, July 2011

2014 BMW i3 Electric Car: Motorcycle Engine As Range Extender

Diversity among electric cars is rapidly expanding, from the all-electric Nissan Leaf and Mitsubishi 'i' to the upcoming Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid, which provides just 9 to... August 3, 2011 by John Voelcker 3

2014 BMW i3 Moves Us Closer To Autonomous Driving In Cities

Driving is often a pain, particularly in dense, congested urban cores. Start and stop, brake suddenly, stay carefully in your lane, drive defensively, then park in tight... August 2, 2011 by John Voelcker 2

Electric Car Sales: Leaf Trounces Volt, But Don't Take It Seriously

It was a slow month for electric-car sales, with just over 1,000 Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt vehicles together delivered during July. Nissan delivered 931 Leaf... August 2, 2011 by John Voelcker 9

BMW i3 Electric And i8 Plug-In, Under The Hood: Live Photos

BMW revealed two new electric, hybrid, and range-extended models--the BMW i3 electric car and the BMW i8 plug-in hybrid--at a special press conference in Frankfurt earlier... July 29, 2011 by Bengt Halvorson 1

BMW i3 Electric Car And i8 Plug-In Hybrid Live Photos

If you were hoping for the production versions of BMW's first production EV and sports plug-in hybrid, you're out of luck, but if BMW keeps up its recent practices, the... July 29, 2011 by Nelson Ireson

BMW i3 Electric Car And BMW i8 Plug-In Hybrid: Overview

BMW today revealed concept versions of its first-ever production electric cars: the i3 battery electric minicar and i8 plug-in hybrid sports coupe. The designs and details of... July 29, 2011 by John Voelcker

BMW i3 Concept: Battery Electric Urban Minicar—Full Details

The concept version of the 2014 BMW i3 unveiled today in Frankfurt shows just how radical a change BMW has made from its legacy of gasoline-powered, front-engine, rear-drive... July 29, 2011 by John Voelcker 9

BMW i8 Concept: Plug-In Hybrid Sports Coupe—Full Details

While its sports coupes are more of a known entity, the i8 Concept shown in Frankfurt today may be the most radical coupe BMW has ever built. Its “stream flow”... July 29, 2011 by John Voelcker 2

Electric Cars Dirtier Than Gasoline Equivalents In China

EV fans are probably sick of arguing the case for electric cars whenever someone brings up the old "well to wheels" scenario. "Well, where does the electricity come from?"... July 28, 2011 by Antony Ingram 29

Official BMW i Preview Coming Tomorrow

BMW is holding a global press conference in Frankfurt, Germany tomorrow to promote its new i division aimed at sustainable motoring solutions for the future. Our own green... July 28, 2011 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran