Electric Cars

The electric car might take over the driving world some day, but it is still plagued with problems right now, not the least among them being range. A relatively minor problem with electric cars is how to charge them. Plugging them in at home does ...

Kia has announced its first electric vehicle, and it is based on the Kia Ray. The small car has a range of 139km, or 86 miles, and will exclusively be for the Korean market for now.  The Ray EV uses a 50kW electric motor powering the fron...

What happens when the Nissan Leaf gets mixed with the NV200 van. Well Nissan is imagining what that combination would look like with the Nissan E-NV200 that clearly blends the style of both vehicles into a next gen electric, utility concept. ...

Oh, come on Toyota. First, it shows the LF-A roadster sneakily at the Tokyo Auto Salon. Then, it reveals a supercharged, 128hp version of the iQ that will be limited to just 100 copies in Japan. Now, Toyota has completed the trifecta. It is showin...

Skoda has a test fleet of 10 electric Octavia Combis in Mladà Boleslav in the Czech Republic. This Octavia is the first pure electric vehicle made by Skoda, and it is in testing to gain knowledge about one day making a production versi...

On Friday the first electric sports car produced in Portugal will be launched. The Veeco RT is a fully electric reverse three wheeler, with a range up to 400 km and is the result of a partnership between the VE - Fabricação de Ve&iac...

The Hiriko is a new electric vehicle created by a business consortium headquartered in Spain. The company will begin selling a small electric car next year, and the first prototype was just presented at the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium...

Morgan is embracing British engineering now, as it always has. The long-lived, British sports car maker is teaming with Brtiish companies Zytek and Radshape to develop an electric version of the Plus 8 that uses a five-speed manual transmission. T...

It looks like Renault and its corporate sibling Nissan are making a big push for electric cars in Europe. Renault announced its moderately priced Zoe electric car at the Geneva Motor Show on Monday, and now Nissan is planning a major increase in L...

President of Volkswagen North America Johnathan Browning as confirmed to Automotive News that the US will get a plug-in electric version of the next generation Golf very late next year as a 2014 model. Volkswagen plans to follow the lead ...