Cadillac are going to put in to production the Converj – a Chevvy Volt based hybrid – although not until 2012. The Cadillac Converj (daft name) was shown as a concept at the Detroit Motor Show earlier this year and signalled a new direction for Cadillac – it was decent looking and smaller than an […]
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 […]
Rolls Royce Ghost Hybrid
Rolls Royce are developing a hybrid version of the new RR Ghost, featuring the mild hybrid system from the BMW ActiveHybrid 7 Series. The reveal of the Rolls Royce Ghost was another of those long, drawn-out reveals that seem to be the norm these days. As far back as February we revealed the first official […]
Ferrari electric 4×4 confirmed
Ferrari has confirmed they will be producing an electric 4×4 system in the next generation 612 Scaglietti which is due in 2012. Six months ago we reported that Ferrari were working on a four wheel drive system utilising electric motors to drive the front wheels. But Ferrari’s raison d’etre isn’t really about economy – although […]
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 […]
Axon Plug-in Hybrid revealed
Car making minnow Axon Automotive has revealed details of a UK designed and built plug-in hybrid due to hit the market in 2011. We’re used to seeing plug-in hybrids coming at us from major manufacturers as they try to out eco one another. But this time we have a UK made plug-in hybrid from minnow […]
Honda CR-Z Hybrid – Tokyo reveal
The hybrid Honda CR-Z – sporting a 1.5 litre petrol engine and a six speed manual ‘box – has been revealed at Tokyo. Honda has unveiled what they are calling the CR-Z concept at Tokyo today, But it’s not a concept – as we said when we reported a few weeks ago on the CR-Z […]
Toyota Sai Revealed
Toyota has revealed a larger hybrid in Japan – the Toyota Sai – based on the Lexus HS 250h and offering 190bhp from its petrol hybrid powerplant. A couple of weeks ago we reported that Toyoto were going to take the wraps off a new hybrid in their range – the Toyota Sai – on […]