Nissan has revealed a two-seat electric city car – the Nissan Land Glider – which leans on corners. It will show at Tokyo later this month. It’s starting to look as if car makers are waking up to the reality that electric cars are only really suited to city environments. In those surroundings they can […]
Toyota FT-EV II – it’s the Jetsons!
Toyota are bringing a low-powered, short range, ultra-compact electric city car concept to the Tokyo Motor Show – the Toyota FT-EV II. Not quite – the Toyota FT-EV doesn’t fly – but it does look a bit like a retro-futuristic car. Something designed in the fifties to portray life in the 21st century. And in […]
Toyota condemns the Electric Car
Toyota believes that the electric car will never be a mass-market phenomenon, and that the future lies with petrol hybrids. I suppose we shouldn’t be too surprised that the company that has put all its might behind the hybrid car says that electric cars – plug-ins – are not a viable proposition, nor likely to be in the […]
Mitsubishi MiEV – Plod-Mobile
West Midlands Police are to take delivery of Mitsubishi’s electric car – the MiEV – as community patrol cars. We’ve seen police cars ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous. On our doorstep the Essex police use Subaru Imprezas, which give hoodie-herberts the fright of their lives when they see them looming in their rear-view […]
Audi e-Tron gets green light
Audi’s US boss – Johan de Nysschen – has revealed that Audi will be putting the electric e-Tron in to production in the next two years. Although there were stories surrounding an electric Audi R8 for months, it was only a short while before Frankfurt that we learned the deal was real, with Audi unveiling […]
France invests in an Electric Car Future
France is to invest 1.5 billion Euros to install recharging points for electric cars and promote EV development and purchase. We’ve had various declarations of intent from politicians with regards to an Electric Car future this last year, including Portugal committing to the Electric Car, Germany looking to see a million electric cars on their […]
Fisker gets funding for Karma & NINA
Fisker has acquired funding from the DOE to complete the Karma and move forward with project NINA – a low-cost plug-in Hybrid to be made in the US. Henrik Fisker has been planning the Fisker Karma for what seems a very long time. It looks a very good stab at a luxury, plug-in electric car […]
Electric Rolls Royce Ghost/Phantom coming?
A Rolls Royce spokesman has said that they are looking at the viability of an electric RR Ghost or RR Phantom. We’ve got used to one car maker or another rolling out a hybrid or plug in of some description on an almost daily basis. From the stalwarts of electric cars like Reva with the […]
BMW Vision EfficientDynamics Concept – Frankfurt catchup
BMW has revealed the Vision EffecientDynamics Concept at Frankfurt, featuring a 1.5 litre turbo-diesel and 2 electric motors. There is little to beat the sound of a burbling V8. Or the wail of a V10 reaching the upper limits of its rev range. Or even the bark of a V12 – especially a Ferrari V12 […]
Ford Focus BEV (Electric) Frankfurt reveal
Ford has revealed a battery electric Ford Focus (BEV) at Franfurt which will be trialed in the New Year. Ford has revealed a battery electric Focus prototype at the Frankfurt Motor Show this week, firmly pointing the way Ford intends going to keep up with the current fad for battery electric cars. Ford are intent […]