Electric Cars

The Leaf is among the bestselling vehicles in Norway

Norway is attempting to set the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of electric cars on August 31. Nissan is contacting Leaf owners in Norway and are asking them to attend. The Norwegian EV Association will also be attending the r...

It scored five stars overall and in every sub-category

The Tesla Model S has become the highest rated car ever tested by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in the US. It scored not only a five-star score overall but five stars in every subcategory, including front, side, rear and rollo...

It hopes to follow the same trajectory as the Prius

Renault has decided that it will not develop any future EV models and instead focus on marketing and developing its current range that includes the Zoe and Twizy, plus several commercial models. Its goal will be to reduce the price of its electric...

They also want to introduce road congestion charges to regions

UK political party the Liberal Democrats are debating introducing a plank to their platform that petrol and diesel cars should be banned from British roads by 2040. They are also debating charging drivers for each trip depending on distance and lo...

They are not currently developing any

Fiat and Chrysler say that they are not currently working on any hybrid or EV models because they consider the technology too expensive and without enough benefits for the current market. They do not believe that their customers are interested in ...

It is meant to conquer range anxiety

Hyperdrive, a UK company that specializes in developing electric vehicle tech, has created a small, modular petrol engine that could be added to EVs to increase range and mitigate range anxiety. It calls the range extending engine the Range Extend...

It amounts to the car's real world trial

Land Rover has begun real-world testing of six electric Defenders at the Eden Project in Cornwall, England, and it is using them to tow 60 visitors at a time around the park in a 12 metric ton road train. The trucks are all based on the Defend...

The electric car will go on sale in Europe in November

After years of showing the car in various forms as a concept, BMW has finally revealed the production i3 that will be on sale in Europe later this year and be on sale in North America in the second quarter of next year. BMW is betting big on the i...

The 100,000th car was a Leaf sold in the US

The Renault-Nissan Alliance has sold a combined 100,000 electric cars, and the 100,000th sale was a Nissan Leaf sold in the United States. Renault-Nissan has sold more pure EV road cars than any other automaker.  "The age of the main...

The factories will receive 600 gigawatt hours of energy a year

Volkswagen and Seat have signed a deal with Spanish energy company ACCIONA to provide 600 gigawatt hours of completely renewable energy annually to its plants in Martorell, Zona Franca, El Prat de Llobregat and Pamplona starting in 2014. The S...