Electric Cars

What happens when a Tesla Motors castoff and an award winning industrial designer join for a brainpower tryst? A freaking fast electric motorcycle is born. Mission Motors unveiled the world's fastest production all-electric motor cycle at TED2009 yesterday to googly eyes and slackened jaws. The...

Honda has just begun selling its next generation 2010 Insight Hybrid in Japan for 1.89 million Yen, which translates to roughly $20,052 USD. The EX trim will be closer to $23,000. The vehicle is expected to hit the US market in April, in two trims, the LX and EX. Pricing here has not been set...

One small island nation off the coast of Italy is about to become the test case for countrywide smart-grid technology. Malta and IBM have agreed on a plan to digitize the country's electrical grid and water system. In a place with over 1700 vehicles per square mile, climate change is a very...

Low-speed EVs to be used on-base

The Aptera 2e, is a unique electric vehicle. It is a 3-wheeled 2 seat airplane-shaped vehicle that is a cross between a motorcycle and a commuter car. The first one has rolled off the production line, and they are expected to go into low volume series production in the fall of this year. At the...

Purse in Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize will be $10 million

Ford Motor company recently revealed a plan to build a c-class electric sedan for production in 2012. AllCarsElectric.com also test drove a mule prototype of that vehicle. Today, Ford announced that it had chosen the lithium-ion battery supplier. Johnson Controls-Saft of France has signed a...

Audi has previous considered entering the hybrid market, and now has finally confirmed it will officially to do aiming to bring a hybrid version of its luxury SUV the Q5 to the US in 2010.. Wolfgang Hatz who is head of Audi's powertrain development said the automaker will build a hybrid to compete...

In November of last year, the Renault-Nissan Alliance announced a partnership with Sonoma County to promote the adoption of electric vehicles and encourage the development of charging infrastructure. According to a report in the North Bay Business Journal today, Sonoma County means business. The...

BMW's All-Electric Mini Car Driving Experience

GM-Volt.com has reported an original interview with GM advanced technology engineer Nick Zielinksi. Zielinski was asked if the second generation Chevy Volt would have a price goal around $20,000 and stated "you’re pretty much describing our plans for Gen 2. Looking to improve efficiency, maintain...

No sooner does Mitsubishi still not have any i MIEVs on the road in significant number, than it is introducing a new version of the vehicle. The automaker reports that it is set to debut a Sport Air version of their i MIEV electric car at the Geneva Auto Show in March. This vehicle will give...

Yesterday at the National Automobile Dealers Association annual expo in New Orleans, ZAP unveiled their three-wheel roadster, the Alias. The Alias, shown in its running pre-production form, features upward hinging doors, seating for two, an estimated 100-mile range, 0 to 60 in 7.8 seconds, and a...

Former McLaren designer, Jim Dowle (now of his own company JJAD) is creating an electric sports car and the specs sound promising. Instead of the previously announced, gasoline powered P1 project which was originally intended to compete with the Lotus Exige, the P1-E will have a four-wheel drive...

If you've followed the Tesla Motors story from the beginning, you know that there have been trials and tribulations along the way. How many speeds would the transmission have? When would the cars be delivered? How fast would they actually be? Today, Tesla Chairman, Elon Musk gave some insight as to...

Apparently people are nervous about buying used hybrids, or at least Toyota thinks so. The new number one automaker in the world announced its Certified Used Hybrid Program yesterday, which should give used hybrid buyers even more peace of mind than they would already have about driving a more...

The Automotive News is reporting that Toyota plans to offer their new battery electric vehicle in the United States in 2012, similar in size to the FT-EV currently on display at the auto show in Detroit. The FT-EV, pictured above, is an electric vehicle based on the fossil-fuel powered iQ Toyota...

Mitsubishi has announced that trials of the iMiEV, the peppy electric vehicle based on the gasoline-powered 660cc “i” minicar, will begin in Europe, in addition to the current fleet testing going on in Japan. 12 iMiEVs will be offered for government, utility, and corporate fleet testing: five...

If this year's Detroit Auto Show taught me any one lesson, it was that every automaker is developing a line-up of electric vehicles, from plug-in hybrids to battery-electric vehicles. Every display boasted at least one new or improved electric vehicle, from the modest and somewhat dull BYD set to...

Toyota has recently unveiled its new third generation Prius, which has improved aerodynamics, a larger engine, and an improved parallel hybrid drivertrain that permits it to achieve a 50 mpg combined fuel efficieny. The Nikkei has just reported that Toyota will begin selling the car in May...