There will be a new Hybrid in town….Hybrid4 made by Peugeot. A Peugeot Hybrid Diesel was announced. The car’s name is Peugeot 3008 Hybrid4 The car will use a system that consists of a conventional 163-horsepower 2.0-liter inline-four diesel engine driving the front wheels and a 37-horsepower electric motor at the rear axle, which operates
Honda Jazz at Paris later this year. Honda’s compact Jazz (Fit) gets a hybrid version, to be on display at the Paris auto show in September later this year. The new hybrid will employ the same 1.3-liter i-VTEC SOHC aluminum alloy combustion engine and electric motor used in the Insight hybrid. Details are scarce, but
Volkswagen Golf Blue-E-Motion will be released in 2013. The Plug-in EV will be on sale in US, Canada and Europe. With it’s 93 miles range and 115 hp electric motor the EV will be powered by Lithium Ion batteries. The weight will stay arround 3400 pounds says Volkswagen, which is only about 600 pounds more
TATA’s Electric NANO. This is an electric version of the world’s cheapest car, the Tata Nano, at the 80th Geneva Motor Show. The car is basically the same as The TATA Nano with the conventional engine – 600cc gasoline engine. The TATA’s Nano is the cheeapest car already with a great commercial success, but with
Reunion Island to became a Laboratory for mass testing French Electric cars. French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Tuesday that he intends to turn the French overseas territory of La Reunion (Fr) into the world’s first site for the mass use of electric automobiles. There will be a whole new infrastructure for charging Electric cars. Renault
The upcoming EV Nissan Leaf. I really like this car. Nissan Leaf is a five-door car and more like designed for a family. It’s fully electric car, no hybrid. The new EV should have a top speed approaching 80 miles per hour and a range of at least 100 miles. There is an official website
Mitsubishi i-Miev is already in production and already in sales in Japan, but in Europe it will hit the shops only at the end of 2010. The small Japanese electric car will have a “clone” in Europe. Peugeot and Citroen had joined their forces and they are developing another motorization – hybrid – with diesel
Future electric motors build will be SR Motors. The small-size SR motor was developed by Akira Chiba, professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Science & Technology, Tokyo University of Science. The prototyped SR motor has the same size as the 50kW synchronous motor equipped in the second-generation Toyota Prius. Curently all produced
Tesla for 2010 Tesla employees which are trying to combat the “range anxiety”. It’s the fear that once you’ve reached the roadster’s maximum range of about 240 miles on one charge, you have to sit through several hours of recharging before you can begin again. Last week the Tesla employees begin a cross country trip
New electric car which will be presented on Geneva’s auto salon. It reaches a top speed of 110 km/h and has an operating range of 120 kilometers. Enough to drive at the Reunion Island… Because you hardly need to drive more than 100km a day… and the speed limit on the roads here is just