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Initial long term plans for Volvo have been scrapped in order to make way for a plug-in hybrid sooner than anticipated.  Volvo initially intended to release a plug-in hybrid based on the companies next generation model lineup of vehicles.  This would have pushed a PHEV back several years.  Now...

Researchers at Stanford University in the United States and Hanyang University in Korea, have shown that replacing the conventional graphite electrodes in lithium-ion batteries with silicon nanotubes can produce a battery capable of holding ten times more charge.  Working in cooperation with...

Moller International's / Freedom Motors Rotapower Rotary Engine Development

Autoblog Green has posted photos of the production design for the Aptera 2e on their website, which can be seen here. In addition to detailing the many minute changes to the Aptera 2e’s shape, they also repeat the rumor that Best Buy intends to be a distributor for Aptera’s vehicles.  Best Buy...

Ford Is Changing Things Around the World

There are few people who deny that Tesla makes beautiful vehicles, but many wonder why an electric car is designed in such a manner as to blend in with other high dollar luxury vehicles.  Since most electric vehicles boldly say, "Look at me, I run on electricity alone", one question still...

The unfortunately Named REVOLTe is Said To Be Inspired By The Classic 2CV

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The revolving door of Tesla Motors leadership keeps turning. Today, executive vice president of vehicle engineering and manufacturing, Mike Donoughe, is calling it quits, just over a year after he started the job. Formerly employed by Chrysler, Donoughe was charged with overseeing engineering...

A new era of US economical history has begun. A123 Systems is the Watertown Massachusetts based lithium-ion battery company that was born out of a lab at MIT. The company has developed a unique lithium-ion nanophosphate cathode material that enables high energy and power density batteries, that are...

Volvo, along with the release of the prototype C30 BEV, has begun conducting widespread analysis and testing of safety concerns specific to electric vehicles. The company, widely known for its advanced safety features and also regarded as one of the pioneers in the safety field, hopes to achieve...

Many potential EV buyers have questions about electric vehicles.  Questions ranging from battery life, to expected range of vehicles, to the future of EVs and even questions pertaining to the infrastructure to support EVs.  Now all of these questions and more will be answered today via live...

In the accelerating quest for greater fuel efficiency, boosting engines--with turbos or superchargers--is one way to pull more power out of a given displacement. Traditionally, superchargers have been driven by chain or belt powered from an engine's crankshaft. Now, a British engineering firm has...

In their current form Lithium Ion batteries,  the power source of choice for the next wave of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, contain small amounts of extremely expensive rare-earth metals or fire-prone carbon-based materials as a necessary part of their electrode's formulation. Researchers...

If you frequent this site, you've read all about electric vehicles and gas-electric hybrids. In those applications, electricity is stored in a battery, which powers an electric motor. That electric motor can either move the vehicle or assist the gas engine in hybrid configurations. One U.K. company...

The Department of Transportation awarded $100 million in grants to several metropolitan transit authorities with a goal of reducing emissions and creating new jobs. The grants are part of an ongoing effort by the government to reduce the environmental impact of the public transportation sector and...

The Audi e-tron electric super-car concept that was recently unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show will be coming to a Playstation system near you soon.  The vehicle will appear in virtual format by December at the Playstation Home site, a free download-able application tied in with the PS3...

Electric Rolls Royce Phantom May be In the Works

  Zenn Motors has recently indicated it no longer plans to mass produce its own highway capable electric car called the cityZENN, instead focusing on development and sale of EEStor-powered electric car drivetrains called ZENNergy Drive. Zenn is a 10% owner in Texas-bases EEStor believed to be...

Ian Clifford is the CEO of Zenn Motors.  His company has a 10.7% ownership stake in EEStor, the US based company supposedly secretly building a breakthrough battery that is ultralight, low-cost, and long-lived that doesn't require lithium and can be created using-screen printing techniques. Zenn...