Renault ZOE and Kangoo Z.E. Now Coming with Buyable Battery
28 Nov 2014, 10:14 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Up until now, Renault was offering its ZOE and Kangoo Z.E. electric vehicles without the option to buy the battery in order to cut down the purchasing costs and thus make the EV more accessible to a...
Take a Look inside the Formula E Powertrain
27 Nov 2014, 16:13 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / With seven more Formula E races remaining in the inaugural season that begun in September this year, we can take a short break and have a look at what powers these machines. Yes, it’s all elec...
Gymkhana Parody No.2 is Out: Ken Box’ Crazy Cart is Back
27 Nov 2014, 13:33 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Ken Block recently pulled some awesome maneuvers in his newest Gymkhana 7 on the streets of Los Angeles. If that blew you off your seat, check out what Ken Box can do with his motorized... box. A...
The Chinese Tesla Looks Quite Impressive, Here’s the Denza Promo Clip
25 Nov 2014, 16:53 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / After its debut as a concept car in 2012 at the Auto China Show in Beijing, the Denza project is finally rolling into dealerships as the country’s first luxury electric passenger car. Sort of ...
Nissan Offering Free Leaf Quick Charging in Atlanta
25 Nov 2014, 09:34 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Black Friday deals can’t get better than this for Leaf buyers in Atlanta, as Nissan is rolling in its own holiday special deal - free public charging for two years. The “No Charge to ...
Audi Planning Tesla Model S Rival with 450 Kilometer Range for 2017
22 Nov 2014, 12:19 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / If there's one thing we know about the German car companies from the VW Group, it's that they like to develop advanced powertrains and share them between models. They do it for the Golf an...
R-Zentric Tesla Model S is an All Carbon Fiber Tuning Job · Video
22 Nov 2014, 09:30 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Truth be told, if you want to spruce up the appearance of your all-electric means of personal transport, chances are you can't because EV tuning is still pretty unevolved. Electric vehicles are...
2016 Chevrolet Volt Front End Revealed: Looks Significantly Better
20 Nov 2014, 14:28 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / It's not just the technology that needs to change in order for people to adopt electric cars. Models like the Mitsubishi i-MiEV and the Nissan Leaf look awkward and to a lesser degree, so does ...
New 3D Printed Electric Car Going After Local Motors’
20 Nov 2014, 13:20 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Not long ago, Local Motors, the company that brought us the Rally Fighter, has written another important entry in the book of automotive history by being the first to build a functional 3D printed e...
Biggest Truck On Earth Has Electric All-Wheel Drive: BELAZ 75710
18 Nov 2014, 17:35 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / You might think that electric cars are for girls, like it happened back in the day they were invented and females preferred them because of simplicity and less things to break. But you’d be wr...
Advanced Lead-Carbon Batteries to Spawn a New Generation of 48V Super Hybrid Vehicles
18 Nov 2014, 17:04 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / In case eco-friendly motoring isn’t your cup of tea, the segment is focused these days on extending the range of hybrid or electric vehicles. To earn those valuable extra kilometers, you need ...
Electric Ford F-150 SVT Raptor Hitting the... Golf Course
17 Nov 2014, 12:27 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Pickup truck lovers gather around and check out the first Ford SVT Raptor with a full electric powertrain being ready to go ride hard on... the grass of a golf course. Yeah, it’s a golf cart,...
World Fastest Golf Cart Looks Terribly Unsafe at 118 MPH
14 Nov 2014, 17:33 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Those around here that have also been golfing a couple of times know that a golf cart is probably the most unexciting ride ever. It looks odd, you sit too up straight, has a tiny electric motor and ...
Jaguar EV-Type Trademark Applied, Watch Out Tesla!
14 Nov 2014, 16:28 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Checking out trademark applications on the US Patent and Trademark Office website is like fishing - you never know when the lake monster is going to bite. Today it did, as we found that Jaguar took ...
Toyota Could Lose $100K On Every FCV
14 Nov 2014, 11:10 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The move towards using hydrogen fuel cell cars will be tough, very though. That’s mostly because there is no such infrastructure to sustain these vehicles, but also because the technology is s...
Toyota FCV Tops Popular Science’s 2014 Best of What’s New
13 Nov 2014, 10:15 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The electrification of the auto industry is gaining more and more attention from “tech-heads” all over the world. And fuel cell vehicles are no exception, with Toyota’s FCV model b...
Compact Entry Level 3-Door Tesla? Yes, Please
12 Nov 2014, 10:48 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / It all started with the Roadster model in 2008, Tesla Motors’ first production car, an all-electric lithium-ion battery-powered roadster that could go over 200 miles (320 km) per charge. In ea...
Get Behind the Scenes of OneRepublic’s New Video: I Lived
11 Nov 2014, 14:15 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / After OneRepublic’s “I Lived” video featuring Mercedes-Benz’ latest B-Class Electric Drive model experienced such a great success, the Germans have recently released the maki...
Kia Soul EV Gets Priced for the UK
11 Nov 2014, 10:02 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Without beating around the bush, the first ever all-electric Kia model to be sold globally costs £24,995 in the UK after the £5,000 Plug-In Car Grant. For comparison’s sake, the Ni...
Tesla Model S Tuning by Unplugged Performance - Carbon Fiber Extravaganza
10 Nov 2014, 16:09 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Picture this: you're the proud owner of a Tesla Model S, the best electric vehicle around. A few months have passed since you took delivery of the luxurious sedan, and you're thinking abou...