The world premiere of the production versions of VW electric e-Golf and e-Up! will take place at the Frankfurt Motor Show next month. Electric cars may be a niche market, but that hasn’t stopped car makers trying to take a piece of whatever action there is, especially as governments around the world are subsidising EVs […]
BMW i Genius could replace a car salesman – if it actually worked.
BMW is employing ‘Artificial Intelligence’ to flog the new BMW i3 and i8 EVs with a text based salesman answering potential buyers’ questions. The cars sales market is moving online more and more with many buyers using the interwebs for all their new car research, and a growing number actually buying cars directly from their […]
BMW Concept5 X5 eDrive revealed. It’s a plug-in Hybrid X5
The BMW Concept X5 eDrive has been revealed ahead of the Frankfurt Motor Show as a plug-in hybrid SUV offering 74.3mpg. [nggallery id=1609 template=customlinks] The arrival of the BMW Concept X5 eDrive ahead of its debut at Frankfurt next month doesn’t preview and immediate addition to the X5 range of a plug-in hybrid, but it does show […]
BMW plotting a hydrogen fuel cell EV
Not satisfied with launching their first premium electric car – the BMW i3 – BMW are plotting the future with plans to develop a hydrogen fuel cell electric car. BMW has now taken its first fully-fledged step in to the electric car market with the BMW i3, revealed in full earlier this week. The i3 […]
BMW i3 EV revealed. It’s clever, but it’s not exactly pretty
The new BMW i3 electric car has been revealed at events around the world ahead of a debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show and in sale in 2014. [nggallery id=1588 template=customlinks] The BMW i3 – the first of BMW’s production ‘i’ electric cars – has finally been revealed at events in London, New York and […]
BMW i3 EV will cost from £30,680 – less than we expected
BMW has revealed that the i3 electric car – due to be revealed on 29th July – will cost from £30,680 when it goes on sale in 2014. The new BMW i3 electric City Car is due to be revealed in production guise on 29th July, ahead of which BMW has revealed it will cost […]
The Bluebird DC50 is an electric supercar to celebrate land and water world speed records
The Bluebird DC50 is a limited run electric supercar and the brainchild of Don Wales, grandson of Sir Malcolm Campbell and nephew of Donald. Don Wales has an impressive family tree – certainly when it comes to speed – with Sir Malcolm Campbell his grandfather and Donald Campbell his uncle. So it’s no big surprise […]
Porsche big up the Panamera S E-Hybrid (video)
Porsche has released a new video extolling the virtues of the new Panamera S E-Hybrid as not just a frugal electric Porsche, but a proper performance car too. [nggallery id=1464 template=customlinks] We’ve long seen hybrids, and plug-in hybrids, as the perfect performance weapon for high-end cars, where the addition of an electric motor offers an […]
Nissan Renault have sold 100,000 electric cars
Nissan boss, Carlos Ghosn, has revealed that Nissan and Renault have now sold 100,000 electric cars worldwide since the Nissan LEAF arrived in 2011. Nissan Renault are the only mainstream car maker to have embraced the idea that the electric car is the future, so they’ve been busy building and marketing their EV offerings for […]
Honda & GM to work together on next generation Hydrogen Fuel Cells
GM and Honda have announced they are to work together to develop the next generation of Hydrogen Fuel Cells for vehicles and promote a refuelling infrastructure. Hydrogen Fuel Cells are, in many ways, the answer to our dependency on oil. But any future that uses hydrogen fuel cells to power an electric motor in a […]