Another electric car will also be tested in the United States in autumn 2008: Mitsubishi MiEV (Mitsubishi Innovative Electric Vehicle) with lithium-ion batteries (16 kWh) and an electric motor (47 kW). Tetsuro Aikawa, head of product development Mitsubishi, who disclosed this information in the Salon of New York in 2008. The Mitsubishi MiEV is presented [...]

Air France and KLM engineering (FR) will test MDI’s AirPod vehicles at spring 2009. Those cars are 4 seaters, and they are running on compressed air . They should be availeble in US the beginning 2010.
Some technical details of those cars:

weight only 220 kg
4 places (or luggage space)
lenght 2 meters
Using compresed air stored in a [...]

Tata’s new Electric Car is called Indica. This EV is scheduled to be launched in Norway in 2009 and India in 2010.
You can drive the car on the highway, the car is a four-seater, with enough room for luggage and the ability to go from 0 to 60 kilometers per hour (0 to 37 miles [...]

MDI is going to sell their air powered cars in the US at the beginning 2010 as I wrote in one of my artisles in the past.
This time they came with slightly different concept. The urban city car of the future is called AirPod. What’s so weird about this car? This car is powered by [...]

Tata Motors plans to introduce the electric version of its Indica hatchback, the ‘Indica ev’ in Norway in 2009 and a year later in India. The low cost cars, now going electric, it’s pretty cool. Its going to be the elctric version of the Indica which is already on the Indian Market. It is a [...]

The new Insight Concept shares styling cues with the Honda FCX Clarity fuel cell vehicle.
According to EcoGeek , the new Honda’s hybrid cars will cost less than 20,000$. Actually, acording the source the 5-door hybrid model will be only 18,500$. That’s a good news. I don’t if for European customers there will be a supplementary [...]

The i MiEV is powered by a 330-volt lithium ion battery system mated to 47kW electric motor that provides better performance than the standard 64-hp gasoline engine of the regular Mitsubishi ‘i.’
The electric motor improved performance and quicker acceleration over the 64-hp gasoline version.
The advanced lithium-ion battery is developed by Mitsubishi Motors Corporation / Mitsubishi [...]

I came to this article about the Sunflower’s Fresnel lens . Those lens concentrates sunlight more than 1,000 times, enabling cheaper electricity than traditional photovoltaics. The system is self-powered.
Technical specifications:

200-watt system
features trackers that shift with the sun’s location, as well as a controller and communications system.
The low-slung Sunflower is built to withstand winds, and it [...]

After the Roadster for 100 000$ which is already available in US, the second car from Tesla is still in developpement ( code name ‘Whitestar’). The second one should cost about half of the first one. There might be a third one - electric car which will cost under 30 000$. Electric car for the [...]

The new Tata NANO - The electric version is being developed for Norway and will be introduced this year, Tata said. The vehicle will be introduced in other markets subsequently.
The price of the Nano is just above $2,500 and Tata’s chairman Ratan Tata says he expects demand to exceed supply. Tata’s plant in the city [...]