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Volvo launched the C30 BEV at the Frankfurt Motor Show earlier this week.  The vehicle, a fully electric version of the company's hatchback model, is scheduled to undergo evaluation by the company to assess the possibility of bringing it to production within the next few years. Along with the...

It's well known in the car industry that a diesel engine costs 10 to 20 percent more to build than a gasoline motor of equivalent output. That's because diesels have to be sturdier, and these days all US-bound diesels are fitted with turbochargers to boost their power. Now a European executive has...

The Smart fortwo ED is an upcoming pure electric car. It will be built by Daimler and use lithium-ion battery packs supplied by Tesla Motors. Testing of prototypes has been underway in Europe since 2007. Earlier this year Daimler announced it would be bringing the vehicle into global production...

The following is the opinion of Jason M. Hendler whose blog can be seen here. Currently, the Congress is debating an expansion of the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing (ATVM) program to include vehicles like the Aptera 2e/2h. The House passed legislation that would define any vehicle that...

  Of the four concept EVs unveiled by Renault at the Frankfurt Motor Show this week, the Fluence ZE will perhaps draw the biggest interest and have the most immediate impact on the automotive market. The Fluence ZE is a fully electric version of the companies midsize family sedan launched...

Globalization Is Hitting the Design Department At Ford

As a writer specializing in the automotive sector, I field a lot of questions from friends and family — and the occasional stranger — about electric vehicles. Some of them are legitimate queries like, “Can you really get 50 miles per gallon in that Prius?” Some of the questions, though, are...

GM Tried It With the Metro, Now Ford Will Do It With EcoBoost

The German automaker whose name is synonomous with "sports car" is planning an all-electric vehicle. This is no third party hack of an existing car either. While speaking at the Frankfurt Motor Show on Tuesday, Porsche president and CEO, Michael Macht, announced that the company is working hard...

Motorcycles and cars have different standards to be met.  For one, cars are subject to the rigors of extensive safety testing and require mandated safety equipment.  This drives the cost of cars up.  Motorcycles on the other hand do not have crash safety standards and are not required to...

Global Green Cars, a partially owned subsidiary of Utah based Green Star Products, recently announced plans to move its operations to Williamsburg Kentucky from the current location in Idaho.    The company reportedly plans on completing the transition of its personnel and operations by October...

Ray Lane, whose venture capital  firm is a major investor in Fisker automotive,  let slip on Tuesday that Fisker is gearing up to announce  a new, $39,000.00 plug-in hybrid vehicle sometime within the next two weeks.  Lane, a former president of Oracle corporation, made his remarks at the...

If the Mini Convertible Wasn’t Your Speed Maybe the Roadster Will Be

"Electric vehicles of today are less costly than in 1990s, but if you compare them with the other vehicles out there they are still too expensive." Those were the words of Toyota Executive Vice President, Takeshi Uchiyamada, at the Frankfurt Motor Show which opened to the press today. "Unless there...

French carmaker Renault, whose partner Nissan recently unveiled its 2012 Nissan Leaf compact electric hatchback, showed no fewer than four separate electric-car concepts at the 2009 Frankfurt Auto Show. All labeled ZE for "zero emissions", they are: Twizy ZE: A tandem two-seater with performance...

Covering all the green-car bases at the 2009 Frankfurt Auto Show, Volkswagen unveiled not only the E-Up electric city car concept but also the L1, a radical 170-mpg tandem two-seat diesel hybrid streamliner it says it will sell by 2013. The L1 name refers to the European concept of a "1-Liter" car...

Audi has brought a supercar electric vehicle concept to Frankfurt with specs that dazzle and technology that highlights the future direction of EVs. The Audi e-tron concept on display in Frankfurt packs a lot into its R8 supercar based platform.  The vehicle includes 4 electric motors that offer...

According to Volkswagen, the E-Up! electric concept vehicle on display at the Frankfurt Motor Show will be the "Beetle of the 21st Century." The company promises it will be on our roadways by 2013. The E-UP! is based on the New Small Family platform that was introduced several years ago with the...

Yesterday we brought you the first images of the Audi e-Tron concept car from the Frankfurt Auto Show. Now, we have all the technical details of this stunning supercar propelled purely by electrons. Until now, all we knew was that the e-Tron was based on the regular R8 sports car, with the side...

Awhile back President Obama made a bold statement that he wanted 1 million EVs on our roadways by 2020.  This statement has set the goal for our market and has lead automakers to push forward in their production of EVs with the assistance of government grants.  Though his goal may be a stretch...