Posts Tagged ‘Electric Vehicle’

Citroen Survolt At Eco Car Spectacular Event

Monday, September 6, 2010 17:27 by 1 Comment
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Citroen Survolt is by far the coolest electric car we’ve seen so far, not just because of its fancy looks, but also because it is an actual racing car which just happened to be environmentally friendly! The car which is currently a concept, will soon make it UK debut at The Prince of Wales’ Start [...]

Posted under category: Citroen Tags: Citroen, Citroen Survolt, Electric Vehicle

Izaro GTE – Electric Supercar From Spain

Friday, August 20, 2010 16:34 by No Comments
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Now that the Spain proved they now how to make great supercars with the amazing Spano GTA and the awesome Tramontana, when they talk about a new model you automatically now it’s something serious. Meet the Izaro GTE, which looks much simpler than other Spanish supercars, but it’s going to have a much harder job [...]

Posted under category: Exotics Tags: Electric Vehicle, Supercars

2011 Chevrolet Volt Pricing Starts At $41,000 – Sort Of!

Tuesday, July 27, 2010 17:39 by No Comments
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As promised General Motors revealed the official pricing of the Chevrolet Volt, the revolutionary electric vehicle with extended-range capability, which can be ordered starting from today. As for the MSRP, well it starts at $41,000, but it could be $33,500! You see GM has counted on the federal tax credit, which ranges from $0-$7,500. But [...]

Posted under category: Chevrolet Tags: Chevrolet, Chevrolet Volt, Electric Vehicle

Mercedes Vito E-Cell Electric Van

Tuesday, July 27, 2010 17:13 by 3 Comments
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As it turns out Mercedes believes in electricity as the best replacement for fossil fuels and they are hard at work developing their E-Cell systems which can be used in a wide range of vehicles from the supersport Mercedes SLS E-Cell to this, the Vito Van. It is the first production battery-electric van and offers [...]

Posted under category: Mercedes Benz Tags: Electric Vehicle, Mercedes Benz, Mercedes Vito E-Cell

Gordon Murray Design’s T.25 City Car Unveiled

Monday, June 28, 2010 13:10 by No Comments
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Gordon Murray became very famous by designing the legendary McLaren F1. But instead of making a second version of the supercar he decided to save the world by working on small electric city cars. And here’s the latest creation of his company, called the T.25. They believe it will set new standards in terms of [...]

Posted under category: Green Motoring Tags: Electric Vehicle, Gordon Murray

Audi says ‘NO’ to the production of electrical A1

Thursday, June 24, 2010 17:24 by No Comments

Rupert Stadler says that the current technologies – start & stop – are sufficient to achieve low emissions and consumption. Shown in March at the latest edition of the Geneva Motor Show, the Audi A1 e-tron, the electric version of the new compact of the German constructor, should not see the ‘daylight’; it’s Rupert Stadler, [...]

Posted under category: Audi Tags: Audi, Electric Vehicle

Pininfarina NIDO EV Concept

Tuesday, May 25, 2010 12:11 by No Comments
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For most of us Pininfarina is synonymous with beautiful and outrageous Ferraris and multi million dollar one-off cars sporting an Italian V12. But to show they’re in tune with the time, they’ve come up with this thing you see here as their latest venue! It is the first prototype of their Nido Development Programme, a [...]

Posted under category: Concept Tags: Electric Vehicle, Pininfarina

Toyota Partners Up With Tesla For EV Development

Friday, May 21, 2010 16:17 by No Comments
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Toyota Motors Company and Tesla Motors signed a new agreement in which the Japanese company buys $50 million of the Sillicon Valley-based firm’s stocks and in return they will help them with developing future electric vehicles, parts, and production system and engineering support. Now this sounds like an odd pairing, because Tesla’s idea of an [...]

Posted under category: Green Motoring, Toyota Tags: Electric Vehicle, Tesla, Tesla Motors, Toyota

VW Presents All-Electric Golf blue-e-motion Concept

Monday, May 3, 2010 17:21 by No Comments
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VW officially announced today that an all-electric variant will be added to the Golf range as soon as 2013. Currently the work is in progress developing the car, and on the proof of this concept model they’ve just unveiled, it’s going on pretty smoothly. The Golf blue-e-motion concept’s electric powertrian delivers 85 kW or 115 [...]

Posted under category: Green Motoring, VW Tags: Electric Vehicle, VW, Vw Golf

VW E-Lavida: A Chinese Electric Sedan

Monday, April 26, 2010 14:44 by 1 Comment
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Reading the title of this post, Chinese-VW-Electric, you are probably getting the idea that this car should be mind-numbingly boring! Well, yeah it is actually! Revealed at the 2010 Auto China, the VW E-Lavida is an electric vehicle developed by the Chinese arm of Volkswagen and it’s based on the Golf IV platform. Read More… [...]

Posted under category: VW Tags: Electric Vehicle, VW

BMW Megacity Electric Vehicle Due In 2013

Friday, April 23, 2010 11:00 by No Comments

So BMW is dead serious about their electric urban commuter and in fact they are going to launch it in two years. And it’s way more than a modern day Bubble car. They have put together all their EV experiences  in the last 50 years to come up with something revolutionary. They say it will [...]

Posted under category: Bmw Tags: Bmw, Electric Vehicle

Renault Fluence Z.E. And Kangoo Z.E Designs Confirmed

Friday, April 16, 2010 12:33 by 1 Comment
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Last year Renault announced the new Fluence Z.E. but only now the design and specs for this car and the other Z.E. electric car, the Kangoo Van have been finalized. These cars are developed for less important markets such as the Eastern Europe, and they are all-electric models with zero emission. Read More… The Fluence [...]

Posted under category: Green Motoring, Renault Tags: Electric Vehicle, Renault, Renault Fluence

GM EN-V Concept Urban Commuter

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 13:37 by No Comments
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This fancy wheelchair you see here is General Motor’s latest concept called the EN-V. This urban commuter is designed in collaboration with Shanghai Automotive Industry, the Chinese partner of GM, and is supposed to be the solution for urban transportation problems in China’s crowded cities in the future. Read More… Basically this 500 kg 1.5 [...]

Posted under category: Concept, GM, Green Motoring Tags: Electric Vehicle, GM

Valmet Eva Electric Concept To Debut At Geneva

Thursday, February 18, 2010 14:47 by No Comments
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Valmet Automotive from Finland is going to reveal their new Electric Vehicle called the Eva at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show. This 2+2 Coupe has everything it needs to beat the G-Wiz at its own game! I mean it’s hideously ugly, very small and, by imagine, terribly slow. You see, it’s got every single feature [...]

Posted under category: Concept Tags: Electric Vehicle, Geneva Motor Show

Renault to produce electric version of Fluence

Saturday, November 14, 2009 13:16 by No Comments
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Some months ago Renault announced production of totally new Fluence model in their new Oyak-Renault plant in Bursa, Turkey which is exclusive to the markets like Turkey, Russia and Romania. But now that the battle of making Zero-Emission Electric Vehicles is heating up between manufacturers, the French company also confirmed production of the EV variant [...]

Posted under category: Green Motoring, Renault Tags: Electric Vehicle, Renault