Electric Cars

Audi and Renault are changing their EV strategy due to low demand

The market for electric cars in Europe is not as good as automakers initially expected. Renault and Audi are changing their strategies for electric vehicles due to low demand in the Europe.  Renault is disapointed with pre-orders of the Z...

Public sales will begin in the first quarter of 2013

Renault delivered the first Zoe produced to French Minister of Industrial Reovery Arnaud Montebourg. The car was presented by Renault Chief Operating Officer Carlos Tavares. Limited deliveries will begin in 2012, and the cars will arrive at dealer...

When compared to 2004 batteries as a baseline

Ford considers the current crop of batteries in hybrids and electric cars the third generation of batteries; the batteries in hybrids and EVs from about 2004 are considered the first generation. In the eight years separating these three generation...

The cars will be driven by eight Endesa employees in Catalonia

Seat is loaning an Altea XL Electric Ecomotive EV and a Leon TwinDrive plug-in hybrid to Spanish electricity utility Endesa. Eight Endesa employees will use the cars for a year in Catalonia. Each car will be driven by an Endesa employee for th...

Single model holds 21% of European EV market

The Opel/Vauxhall Ampera is Europe's best selling electric vehicle with 21% market share as of October 2012. It leads EV sales in Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland. “The Ampera is still the dominant leader of the European elec...

Starts from 1972 BMW 1602 to 1 Series Active E

The BMW i-series cars will be the first time that BMW has sold a pure electric car to the public, but it has been experimenting with them for the last 40 years starting from the Munich Olympics in 1972 and going all the way to the 1 Series Active ...

Development of the 5 cars will continue through May

Jaguar's brand director Adrian Hallmark has confirmed that its turbine hybrid supercar the C-X75 has been cancelled. It had completed five test cars and development will continue through May when three of the cars will be auctioned, and Jaguar...

The car received a four-star safety rating overall

Coda is a weird beast when it comes to electric cars. The cars are based on the Chinese Hafei Saibo but shipped to Los Angeles to have the electric drivetrain installed. If its recent crash tests are any indication, the Coda Sedan might struggle t...

Both Claim the other's cars are visual pollution

It is not very often that automakers comment on a rival's design whether positive or negative, but Nissan and Fiat are in a war of words over their styling. Both allege that the other's designs are nothing but "visual pollution."...

Planning to use San Francisco as test ground

BMW is considering following Daimler's lead by expanding its own electric car sharing service using the i3. The plan is to test a few i3s in San Francisco to make sure that it would work and then launch the program in Germany. BMW calls its se...