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Nissan released photos and details of the electric car it intends to put into production in 2010. The Nissan Leaf is a purpose-built, pure battery electric vehicle.
The Nissan Leaf – that’s the name of the vehicle. Sounds pretty cool…. -:)
The Leaf uses a laminate lithium-ion battery pack with an output of over 90 [...]
Apparently, Automotive Engineer magazine asked Lotus automaker to come up with a concept for a city car, and the car maker came up with the clean, all-electric Smart lookalike.
The car uses an 37kW electric motor which is powered from a lithium ion battery. The top speed is 65mph. The range is only [...]
RiverSimple is designing small, urban, two-seater car, which will be powered by hydrogen fuel cells, with a network hybrid design and made from carbon composites, it has been designed to achieve over 300 mp (which is very efficient).
Riversimple will invite the community to help develop its vehicles, by licensing its designs to [...]
German company MAN had implanted an ultracapacitor in one of their busses. The ultracapacitor allows the bus to start without turning on the engine. Once the bus is moving, the diesel engine starts running. They are few of them actually beeing tested at the Paris’s public transport system RATP.
The hybrid bus reduces use about [...]
Nissan has a prototype 5-seater ZEV that will be ready for sale in 2010. At the beginning, the car will be only available to be purchased in fleets. Then later on (in 2012), it could be available to the mass market.
Nissan promises they will be cheap (Hopefully). And this is before the $7,500 tax [...]
Here’s a great video from a company called AC Propulsion.
You can see that it’s really fast, easy and straightforward it is to convert your car to electric power.
AC Propulsion uses patented tZero drive system in place of a regular gasoline-powered engine. The complex circuitry involved in tZero technology allows the [...]
Great video showing the Aptera Electric vehicle being reviewed by Brian Moody. In the past I wrote about Aptera once. I like the aerodynamics of the car.
It should be on the american market on Octobre 2009 and the price will start at 25000$. Enjoy.
Toyota is exposing a Concept Electric Vehicle at the Detroit Auto Show, at the Opening Day the International Auto Show North American (NAIAS), This vehicle is purely electric, and we might see it on the roads in 2012 (in 3 years).This announcement, together with the exposure of its Camry hybrid concept car powered on compressed [...]
Two reporters from NBC – Matt Lauer and Phil LeBeau broadcasted a test drive with Chevy Volt.
The reporters actually got to test drive the same Volt Cruze Mule that Rick Wagoner drove to Washington DC. There are too many variables that could change between now and November 2010 when it hits showrooms. I just [...]
Volkswagen has unveiled Golf BlueMotion concept vehicle, a car capable of achieving a combined 74.3 mpg (3.2 l per 100 km) while emitting just 99 g/km of CO2.
The BlueMotion label was first attributed to the Polo in 2006. Volkswagen Polo is the most efficient model from the company. Since the Polo made its debut, [...]
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