Switching to electric cars could speed climate change The idea that a wholesale switch to electric cars would automatically reduce CO2 emissions and dependence on oil is one of a number of myths dispelled by a major new report conducted on behalf of the Environmental Transport Association (ETA). The report found that whilst there were […]
Citroen C-Zero debuts
Citroen has revealed their version of the Mitsubishi M-iEV electric city car – the Citroen C-Zero – which will launch at the end of 2010. That Mitsubishi M-iEV certainly gets around. Apart from Mitsubishi’s own version we’ve already had Peugeot’s iON version of the M-iEV electric car and now we get the Citroen C-Zero. The […]
Gordon Murray’s T27 Electric Car
Gordon Murray is developing an electric version of his T25 City Car in collaboration with Zytec which will utilise the iStream process of manufacture. Back in March we reported on a new small car concept from Gordon Murray Design – the T25 – which GMD said was a new way forward in small cars. A […]
Chrysler drops Electric Cars
Chrysler has all but dropped its plans to get 500,000 electric cars on the road by 2013 in its Five Year Plan. Over the last year or two Chrysler has banged on about their plans to release a raft of electric cars. In fact, they even used their electric car plans as part of the […]
Generation Y – the new face of the car buyer
It’s the Generation Y car buyers that are driving the change to hybrids and electrics, not GEN X or the baby boomers. The car landscape is changing. Dramatically. Big, thirsty V8, V10 and V12 engines are starting to feel as if they’re from another age. They’ll survive, of course they will. But big, powerful performance […]
Hybrid Cars are like Mermaids: Carlos Ghosn
Better Place, in collaboration with Nissan, are working on a smart grid and battery swap stations for electric cars. I can’t say it’s an analogy we’d ever considered before. But the quote that “A hybrid is like a mermaid: if you want a fish, you get a woman; if you want a woman, you get […]
Fisker buys GM Plant – Project Nina moves on
Fisker Automotive has bought a redundant GM plant in Wilmington, Delaware to produce a new low-cost electric hybrid – Project Nina. All the news from Fisker until recently has been about the development of the Fisker Karma, a luxury plug-in hybrid electric car. But last month we reported that Fisker had been granted a DOE […]
Nissan Leaf Revealed – 3 more Electric Cars to come
Nissan has revealed the Nissan Leaf EV at Tokyo and confirmed there are three more electric cars to come, including an electric Infiniti. We had the first information on Nissan’s Leaf EV a couple of months ago, at about the time GM were trumpeting the massive economy of the Chevy Volt. Nissan trumped their figures […]
Honda start to think electric
Honda are starting to reconsider their strategy of focusing on Hybrid and Hydrogen Fuel Cell cars and are looking at electric cars seriously. I suppose we shouldn’t blame Honda for moving with the crowd. They have stated on more than one occassion that they see the short to medium term solution for economical cars is in Hybrid technology, but […]
MINI E Test – a bit of a flop?
MINI has had a very muted response in its quest to find people to pay to test the MINI E Electric car. Just 515 applied. Having reported earlier on Ford looking for testers for the Focus BEV, we thought it might be interesting to have a bit of a dig around and see what sort […]