Electric Cars

Nissan will begin testing a fleet of 10 Leaf taxis in Sao Paulo, Brasil. For now, it is just a pilot program to see if electric taxis would work in the city. The first two will begin operating in just a few weeks.  The Leaf taxis will dri...

Renault is considering building an electric sports car with either Renaultsport or Alpine badges. This is the first mention of the possibility that Alpine could be Renault's brand for sporty hybrid and pure electric cars, which is a very inter...

Electric vehicle chargers are poised to become a $1.27 billion industry in Europe by 2020 according to Pike Research.  Currently a spider's web of laws and differing standards make electric vehicle charging in Europe complicated and m...

The Ford C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid will enter production in late 2012, and it will be Ford's first plug-in hybrid on sale in the US. Ford has just released the specs for the car in the US. The C-Max Energi will have a 550-mile total rang...

Chrysler has bucked the general world trend to move towards hybrids, diesels and electric cars. Granted, a few Ram trucks are offered with Cummins diesel engines, but the use of those is very different from small diesels found in Volkswagens. Howe...

Consumer research and accountancy firm Deloitte has just completed a study of consumers’ opinions towards electric cars. It found that consumers worldwide find that electric cars do not have the range to fit their needs, take too long to cha...

Mitsubishi has temporarily stopped producing the Citroën C-Zero and Peugeot iOn electric cars due to low sales. Both cars are rebadged version of the Mitsubishi i-MiEV built in Japan. PSA and Mitsubishi say that the production stop i...

The major hurdle for electric car revolves around charging. There is a limited amount of charging stations, and the cars take too long to charge for most buyers. One of those problems is much more simple to solve. Toyota is investing to build more...

Citroën has debuted an electric version of its Berlingo commerical van at the Hannover Motor Show. It comes with a 22.5kWh battery pack that gives the vehicle a 170km range. Citroën is aiming the car at commercial customers who are looki...

Volkswagen has kept very quiet about what it is bringing to the Paris Motor Show other than the seventh generation Golf, but at the Hannover Commercial Vehicles show, VW will show the eT! electric delivery van concept.  The eT! appears to...