Electric Cars

If any one company seems to hold an edge in fuel cell powered vehicles, that company has to be Daimler.  Though GM has expertise in the field, as does Honda, Daimler has several generations of working fuel cell powered vehicles in daily use around the globe.  Recently, the company introduced its...

Recently we reported on the internal shake up going on over at Aptera.  Previously, we had followed the story of other sources stating that both co-founders of the company had been released.  However, Popular Mechanics is now reporting a much different story. According to the Popular Mechanics...

President Obama and Chinese President, Hu Jintao, couldn't agree on everything when they met on Monday. In a town hall meeting, Obama pressed the Chinese to relax stringent government controls on their citizens' Internet usage. A Chinese blogger later claimed that a transcript of the meeting was...

Co-founders Fambro and Anthony step aside from day-to-day operations

At one time or another, especially if you live in Detroit (or anywhere in southern California), you will have your car stolen. It happened to me twice in five weeks when I lived in a gorgeous river-front apartment in downtown Detroit during the early 1990's. Both times, the car was never recovered...

Nissan's marketing tour of the Nissan Leaf kicked off in Los Angeles.  The tour, which will bring the Leaf to 22 cities in advance of its release date late next year, is a marketing campaign put on by the company to help determine interest and buying mindset. Nissan expects to sell only 10,000 to...

st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } BMW may be a late entrant in the hybrid segment, but they are attempting to catch up quick.  A few weeks ago, the company held the international media launch of the BMW ActiveHybrid X6.  Along with the hybrid X6, BMW will produce the new ActiveHybrid 7. Now the...

Even though electric vehicle technology continues to march toward apparent future viability,  there are still unconquered obstacles that leave room for doubt about the whole enterprise.  The most incontrovertible being price. Right now an electric car with gas-equivalent performance (range aside)...

Earlier this month, we brought you a story regarding Fiat and Chrsyler and the demise of Chrysler's electric vehicle group ENVI.  The two companies are still actively working on electric vehicle technology, but Chrysler's promising Dodge Circuit EV and additional electric vehicles will probably...

Rumors surrounding Aptera and the release of several staffers have been floating around the internet for a few days now.  The apparent rumor origanated from the Aptera Forum.  According to Wired.com the release of several key individuals at Aptera is in fact true.  However, this is only half of...

The world waits as secretive Texas startup EEStor (well it's 9 years old) develops a breakthrough battery for electric cars, and many other applications, called the EESU. These barium-based ultracapacitors in scalable arrays would be far cheaper, longer-lived, smaller and lighter than the best...

In addition to all those electric trucks FedEx ordered from Azure Dynamics, they are now testing Vision Industries plug-in electric / hydrogen fuel cell Tyrano drive train.  You may remember the recent photos of Arnold Schwartzenegger next to Vision Industries Tyrano short haul truck, ushering in...

The UK's Hesketh Motorcycles will now sell Vectrix's electric scooters under a new brand - Hesketh HZE-Vectrix.  I suspected that an ICE based 2 wheeler company might have a need for Vectrix's product line, as the world is making the monumental shift from hydrocarbons to electric propulsion. You...

As planning for the arrival of plug-in cars accelerates, electric utilities need to know which of their customers intend to hook their vehicle up to the power grid every day. Now Southern California Edison, the 123-year-old electric utility that serves 5 million customers in and around Los Angeles...

Roadmaps aren't inherently sexy, unless you're lost and hungry. But when they demonstrate plausible visions for the future, they can be well worth reading. Today, a group of 13 CEOs and board chairmen from a broad range of companies announced that they've formed the not-for-profit Electrification...

Why are electric cars more expensive than their gasoline counterparts?  The answer is quite simple, new technology and related equipment drives up the cost of the vehicle.  Well there's a lot more to the answer than that, but Nissan believes that EVs can cost the same as a comparable gasoline...

Nissan changed the game for automakers planning electric vehicles in August when it unveiled the Leaf. The all-electric C-segment vehicle travels at speeds up to 90 miles per hour and goes 100 miles on a full charge. Nissan says it will only take 30 minutes to charge the batteries to 80% of their...

Mini E drivers united last weekend in southern Cailfornia to take part in a mini meet and greet where driver's of the prototype electric vehicles discussed several aspects about the car. Of those on hand was Edmunds.com staff member John O'Dell.  The unofficial meet and greet took place outside of...

General Motors displayed the all new 2011 Buick Regal just days ago in Los Angeles.  The vehicle will be one of the first GM products to be propelled by their second generation mild-hybrid powertrains. According to Wards Auto," Sources tell Ward’s a hybrid variant featuring the beefed-up version...

According to the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri, Toyota is preparing a larger version of their popular Prius hybrid for production by the end of 2010. The new vehicle will fall into the SUV or station wagon class and will utilize lithium-ion batteries as opposed to the nickel-metal hydride...