Electric Cars

  • AAA's Mobile Electric Vehicle Charging truck

    Everyone makes mistakes once in a while, and we’re sure most drivers have run out of gasoline at least once in their life. But as the saying goes, it's hard to carry a gallon of electricity back to your plug-in car if the battery is completely out of charge. Which is why AAA is now testing roadside assistance for rapid charging of electric cars whose owners are stranded because they ran the battery pack flat. 15 miles' worth in 10 minutes John Nielsen, who's AAA's director of auto repair, buying services and consumer information, talked with GreenCarReports last week about the...

  • 2012 Tesla Model S beta vehicle, Fremont, CA, October 2011
    Tesla Confirms Rapid-Charging Corridor Between LA And SF

    The 2012 Tesla Model S all-electric sedan isn’t due to roll off the production lines for another 8 months, but Tesla CEO Elon Musk wants the world to know that the Californian-based automaker is already putting plans in place to ensure that Model S owners won't be running out of charge...

  • Volvo V60 Plug-In Hybrid
    What's Your One-Liner On Plug-In Cars? Win A Prize!

    If you're an electric car fan with a keen wit and an ear for a catchy slogan, then a new competition run by CalCars and Plugincars.com could see you rewarded for your skills. As the two plug-in car organizations point out, encouraging people into electric cars is all about getting people to give...

  • World's first electric car (1881) recreated
    German Autovision Museum Recreates First Ever Electric Car

    125 years ago a man named Karl Benz patented what many consider to be the first motor car. As an engineer he wasn't as adept at marketing it though, which is why his wife, Bertha, stole it and completed the world's first car journey (and you presume, the first recorded Grand Theft Auto). Less well...

  • Bright IDEA plug-in hybrid delivery van, prototype
    GM-Backed Bright Idea Plug-In Hybrid Van To Be Built By AM General

    How times change. Startup Bright Automotive announced last week that, once the company completes its funding, its advanced plug-in hybrid Idea delivery van would be assembled under contract by AM General. That's the outfit that built the Humvee and Hummer, and spawned the now-defunct HUMMER brand...

  • Audi Urban Concept launch, 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show
    Audi To Sell Electric Urban Concept, Join The Not-Quite-Car Parade?

    If one is a fluke and two is coincidence, then three makes a trend for sure. Audi is close to approving plans to build a limited number of the all-electric two-seat Urban Concept vehicle that it launched at the recent Frankfurt Motor Show, according to CAR magazine in England, If built for sale...

  • Tesla Motors gallery in Houston Galleria, opened October 2011, with Model S on display

    No sooner has Tesla announced a new "gallery" in the heart of oil country, than the Palo Alto-based electric car company has now revealed plans for three more retail stores in North America. The stores are part of the preparation for the upcoming 2012 Tesla Model S sedan that's due to go on sale next year. The first store to open this weekend, November 5, is Tesla Bellevue Square at the high end shopping center in Bellevue, WA. A store in Chicago's Oakbrook Center will follow a week later on November 12 and the following week, a store at Fashion Island in Newport Beach, California. The...

  • 2012 Fisker Karma
    2012 Fisker Karma Gets Good News From Germany: 50 Miles Of Range. Yes, But...

    Fisker Automotive might be suffering a lot of pressure after its luxury plug-in hybrid was rated as having an all-electric range of just 32 miles by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) -- but the automaker is now claiming it has independent results to prove the EPA was wrong. In a public...

  • Opel Ampera
    Thank Hybrids, Electric Cars For Your Gasoline Car's Tech

    Electric cars and hybrid vehicles may still lag a little behind traditional gasoline cars when it comes to sales figures, but their impact is wider-reaching than you might think. Even if you're yet to go electric or drive a hybrid, there's a fair chance that the vehicle you're driving owes some of...

  • 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid
    Toyota Confirms Sub-$1000 Electric Vehicle Charger, Installation Included

    Toyota has confirmed that its official charging station for the 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid will be available to all customers, fully installed, for just $999.

  • 2012 Ford Focus Electric launch, New York City, January 2011
    2012 Ford Focus Electric Sales To Squeak Into 'End Of Year'

    Only a handful of 2012 Ford Focus Electrics are likely to be sold by the end of calendar 2011.

  • 2012 Hawaiian Teacher of the Year Gets Free Mitsubishi I
    Mitsubishi Rewards Hawaii Top Teacher With 2012 Mitsubishi i

    Once upon a time, the only real reward for being a good teacher was to see your students get excited about a subject or do well in exams -- but now a lucky teacher has been rewarded for his good work with a year-long loan of a brand-new 2012 Mitsubishi i. As Plugincar contributor Eric Loveday...

  • GE WattStation Electric Car Charging Station

    Yesterday, GE Industrial Solutions announced the latest in a line of solar-powered initiatives and partnerships designed to help electric car owners power their cars with solar power: a distribution agreement with photovoltaic solar power specialist REC Solar. The agreement, which will see REC Solar become an official distributor of the GE WattStation level 2 electric vehicle charging station, comes hot on the heels of an announcement earlier this month in which GE announced it had partnered with Inovateus Solar to sell a range of solar-powered carports. Unlike GE's large-scale carports...

  • 2011 Chevrolet Volt on test in Little Rock, Arkansas, July 2011
    2012 Chevy Volt Owner Goes Head-To-Head With Fox News, Survives

    If we could name one person who epitomized those who hate electric cars it would be Fox News’ Senior Vice President of Business News and presenter Neil Cavuto -- but in a recent segment on his show Cavuto met his match in the form of 2012 Chevrolet Volt Owner Eric Rotbard. Playing off the...

  • 2012 Ford Focus Electric launch, New York City, January 2011 - Nancy Gioia
    Ford Focus Electric Vs Chevy Volt: Which Would You Buy, And Why?

    Well, now the news is out: The 2012 Ford Focus Electric, the company's first-ever mass-market battery electric vehicle, will be priced at $39,995. Perhaps not coincidentally, that's exactly the price of the 2012 Chevrolet Volt, crosstown rival GM's extended-range electric vehicle (achieved by some...

  • 2012 Ford Focus Electric
    BREAKING: 2012 Ford Focus Electric, Order From $39,995

    The 2012 Ford Focus Electric is a car we seem to have been waiting for forever, but today Ford has finally announced pricing and opened up the order books. We've seen the car develop over the past few years and now potential owners will now get to build and reserve their Focus Electric. The price...

  • 2011 Chevrolet Volt Production Line
    Get A Degree In Electric Cars At The University Of Colorado

    Interested in a future working with electric cars? A new degree course at the University of Colorado could be right up your (electric) avenue. With the help of a five-year, $954,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, the University will be running a master's level course in electric car...

  • 2011 Chevrolet Volt on test in Little Rock, Arkansas, July 2011
    October Electric Car Sales: Chevy Volt Outsells Nissan Leaf

    New-car sales figures are out for October, and in the plug-in electric car arena, Volt supporters can let out a muffled cheer. Finally. The hometown favorite outsold the imported Nissan Leaf by almost 260 units, the first time in many months it's been able to best the battery electric hatchback...

  • Ener1's Dropping Share Price (17 August)

    Ener1 Inc., the battery firm charged with supplying battery packs to the ill-fated Think electric car company and parent company of EnerDel -- a $118.5 million U.S. Department of Energy loan guarantee recipient -- was officially delisted from the Nasdaq stock exchange yesterday after it failed to file its latest financials on a timely basis. The latest draining blow comes just days after its Chief Accounting Officer Melissa Debes resigned, and just a month after its longtime CEO and director of the Board of Directors, Charles Gassenheimer, also left the company. In the politically-charged...

  • The Detonator - Electric chopper motorcycle
    The Detonator: Electric Motorcycle Quieter Than Name Suggests

    If you were to come up with a list of characteristics of your average chopper bike, "near silence" probably wouldn't feature on it. Electric motors are great at doing "near silence" so to find one forming an integral part of The Detonator seems slightly incongruous. Built by Parker Brothers...

  • 1980 Dodge Electrica
    Retro Electric Car Cool On eBay: 1980 Dodge Electrica

    Haven't you heard? Retro is in fashion right now, so if you have a few thousand burning a hole in your pocket, there's just the vehicle waiting for you on eBay right now. Okay, so the Dodge Omni, on which this 1980 Dodge Electrica is based, was never the coolest of vehicles, but thirty years on it...

  • Nissan e-NT400 Electric Truck
    Nissan Doesn’t Just Make Electric Cars: It Makes Electric Trucks, Vans Too

    Nissan might be about to celebrate the end of one year selling its all-electric Leaf, but it isn’t just making passenger vehicles green: It’s electrifying its whole fleet. That was the message Nissan sent out last week when it unveiled a range of all-electric commercial plug-in vehicles...

  • Nissan Leaf BATT-mobile electric car, in Halloween costume
    How Scary Are Electric Cars? BOO !!! It's A Nissan Leaf Batt-Mobile!

    Electric cars are incredibly dangerous. They electrocute you if you take them through a car wash. In fact, just looking at them is dangerous. Why, they might cause heart attacks because they're so ... different. OK. Turning off the sarcasm key on our computer, we give you--for your Halloween...

  • Range Rover Sport Electric Prototype
    Range Rover Plug-In Diesel Hybrid Prototype: Exclusive Photos!

    Sometimes, the staff of Green Car Reports has to travel hundreds, even thousands, of miles to bring you first drive reports, auto show highlights and exclusive green-car coverage. Other times, we just have to visit the local shopping mall. That's where we took these exclusive photographs of a...

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