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 […]
Ford Focus BEV – testers wanted
Ford are looking for testers for their Electric Focus (BEV) based in the Hillingdon area of London. Back at Frankfurt last month, Ford revealed the Focus BEV, a plug-in electric Focus which they told us they were intending trialing in the New Year. Well, things are moving on and Ford are now looking for 20 […]
Electric generation from traffic flow
Israeli scientists have come up with a system to generate electricity from traffic flow – Parasitic Energy Harvesting. We have to confess – in case you hadn’t already noticed – that we’re a pretty sceptical bunch when it comes to electric cars and the whole lemming-like dive in to EVs as the Holy Grail (just […]