Electric Cars

  • 2011 Nissan Leaf

    With the first Leafs now rolling off the production line, Nissan has given us an insight into how the car is produced with a short video. The video shows different aspects of production, such as how the battery is produced and installed, how the inverter is made and how the motor is made and installed. You also get a glimpse of various stages of the production line. One of the interesting aspects of Leaf production is how the car is built on the same line that's used to create some of Nissan's other niche vehicles such as the Juke mini-crossover, the stylish Cube city car and the Note city...

  • Diagram of cylindrical lithium-ion battery, via HowStuffWorks
    Nanoscale Analysis of Rechargeable Batteries Pinpoints Cause of their Demise

    It is my fervent belief that nanotechnology’s ability to push the lowly battery to new heights will be one of the field’s biggest achievements in the not-too-distant future. Sure expanding the water supply and better harvesting the sun’s energy are no doubt big achievements. But...

  • Peugeot EX1 EV concept
    Peugeot EX1: Lion Marque Gives Electric Cars Some Claws

    Here at AllCarsElectric we give you electric car news and views we feel will help our readers make informed decisions should you ever wish to buy an electric car. Sometimes though, it can be fun to look at something you'll probably never be able to buy. Something that makes even the most ardent...

  • 2011 Nissan Leaf
    How To Pay Just $12,280 For A Brand-New 2011 Nissan Leaf Electric Car

    All the different incentives to purchase electric cars can be confusing. But if all the stars align and you're the lucky person who can take advantage of multiple incentives, there’s a slim chance that you could buy a brand-new 2011 Nissan Leaf for a mere $12,300. Here’s how it works...

  • 2011 Nissan Leaf, Nashville, October 2010
    2011 Nissan Leaf Electric Car: First Drive Review

    October has been quite a month. This week we drove a pre-production version of the 2011 Nissan Leaf, the first production electric car to be sold by a major automaker in more than 80 years. Unlike the range-extended electric 2011 Chevrolet Volt, which we drove last week, the 2011 Leaf is a pure...

  • 2011 Tesla Roadster Sport 2.5
    Racer Or Commuter? Just What IS The 2011 Tesla Roadster Sport 2.5?

    If you regularly read AllCarsElectric you’ll know that last weekend we were lucky enough to borrow a Lightning Green example of Tesla’s latest incarnation to the already-famous electric two-seater. But while most commentators view the 2011 Tesla Roadster Sport 2.5 as little more than a...

  • ECOtality charge station design by Mark Lee Johnston

    What does British Petroleum, one of the most-hated corporate villains in the past twenty years do to become a little more loved by environmentalists? Allow a network of electric car charging stations to be installed at its filling stations. But while there are more than 11,000 BP owned gas stations nationwide, the partnership announced last week will only see 45 of its filling stations get kitted out with electric vehicle chargers. Ecotality’s Blink DC Fast Charge stations, capable of providing a full recharge to cars like the 2011 Nissan Leaf in under 30 minutes will be installed in...

  • 2011 Nissan Leaf, Nashville, October 2010
    Live: First 2011 Nissan Leaf Electric Car Rolls Off Production Line

    After years of anticipation and multiple media events, the day is here: The first production 2011 Nissan Leaf will roll off the production lines this Friday at 11:30 am Japanese time. The embedded video below shows the live event, and we hope that it remains archived after the fact. We'll shortly...

  • Racing Green Endurance electric car, powertrain engineer Aran Kankiwala
    110 Days Into Epic Road-Trip, Electric Car Still Going Strong

    Remember the team of fresh-faced engineering students from London’s Imperial College Of Engineering who decided to embark on an almost impossible trek along the World’s longest road in an electric car best suited to the race-track? Back in June our John Voelcker met the team and...

  • 2011 Nissan Leaf
    The 2011 Nissan Leaf May Have An iPhone App, But Runs Windows

    We’ve already seen first-hand how the 2011 Nissan Leaf’s navigation system can predict just how far it will be able to travel before it needs a recharge, and even find you a nearby charger. But while parts of the navigation system and energy consumption software are proprietary to...

  • 2011 Nissan Leaf
    Simulated: Nissan LEAF's Range In Variety Of Traffic, Weather Conditions

    Nissan has released official range estimates, based on computer simulation of a brand-new LEAF (meaning with a brand-new battery), in a variety of weather and driving conditions. Whether the aim of the estimates is to reduce so-called range anxiety or not (even though early-adopters aren't likely...

  • The i-MiEV Cargo
    EVs Could Be A Boon In Light Commercial Use, Says Mitsubishi

    Mitsubishi Motors were one of the first vehicle manufacturers to take the plunge and produce an electric car in significant numbers, and it seems they might become the first to do the same for light commercial vehicles, too. The company, who produce the 2012 Mitsubishi i-MiEV microcar due to hit...

  • G-Wiz charging in the U.K.

    Yesterday, we heard the tragic story that a U.K. owner of a Reva G-Wiz, the tiny neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV) sold in Europe as a quadricycle, was killed when her all-electric runabout hit a garden wall. The 47-year-old woman was thrown clear of the diminutive G-Wiz as it split in two just beneath the front seats where the heavy under-seat battery tray meets the floor. While official reports into the accident have yet to be released, the vehicle appears to have split on impact with the wall. Capable of up to 50 miles per hour and seating two adults and two children in a frame barely...

  • Li-Ion Motors Wave II, Progressive Automotive X-Prize winner.
    Good Sports: How The Auto X-Prize Became A Lesson In Sharing

    As your mother probably told you, it’s polite to share. But while we’ve all probably shared candy, the occasional pretzel and perhaps even a car into work, how many of you would share a $2.5 million prize fund with the people you just beat? That’s exactly what has happened with...

  • 2012 Ford Focus
    2012 Ford Focus Electric Will Surpass Volt On Volume, But Not Leaf

    October is the month of electric-car media this year, with major press rollouts and lots of coverage of both the 2011 Chevrolet Volt and the 2011 Nissan Leaf. Next year, several more electric cars arrive on the U.S. market. One is the 2012 Ford Focus Electric, and yesterday, Ford discussed volume...

  • Electric RaceAbout EV
    Video: Auto X Prize Finalist RaceAbout EV In Detail

    As the only vehicle in the final group of contenders for the Automotive X Prize 100 mpg challenge that actually looks like a typical car--four wheels, a full body, normal side-opening doors--the Electric RaceAbout EV should hold a special place in the history books despite not taking one of the...

  • 2011 Tesla Roadster Sport 2.5
    A Weekend With The 2011 Tesla Roadster Sport 2.5 (Video)

    If you saw yesterday’s 2011 Tesla Roadster Sport 2.5: First Drive Review you’ll know that we were lucky enough to borrow a Lightning Green example of Tesla’s latest electric sports car for the weekend. Three days, 100 kilowatts of electricity, a couple of hard frosts, countless...

  • 2011 Brammo Enertia Plus
    BREAKING: Brammo Launches 2011 Enertia Plus Electric Motorcycle, Doubles Range

    What happens when a company releases an update to a vehicle which promises twice as much fun as its predecessor? It happens rarely, but today an Oregonian company has accomplished just that. Keen to show the world that electric vehicles don’t always have to have four wheels to be impressive...

  • 2011 Tesla Roadster Sport 2.5

    The Tesla Roadster is known among gearheads and electric car advocates as being the sports car that smashes all preconceptions about electric vehicles. So when Tesla announced its aptly-named revision to the iconic all-electric car we just had to see if the Californian-based automaker could beat the iconic first and second generation models. And we’ve just had our first chance. Courtesy of Tesla UK, we were loaned a 2011 Tesla Roadster Sport 2.5, in Lightning Green, a new color for the 2.5 models. For a weekend, we threw everything at the Tesla Roadster from freeway jaunts to twisty...

  • 2011 Nissan Leaf
    Two Things About Electric Cars The Wall Street Journal Missed

    We read a lot of stuff about green cars and, lately, most of it's about electric cars. Sometimes the coverage is unquestioning and adulatory. More often it's cranky and dismissive. But major media outlets are working hard to understand the complexities of what is a huge, slow, expensive, and very...

  • The Internet
    Help Plug In America, MBA Student Analyze Social Media EV Role

    As you'll no doubt be aware, websites such as AllCarsElectric and our sister site GreenCarReports use social media such as Twitter and Facebook to allow our readers to keep up to date with the latest EV and green car news. We aren't alone, either. Companies like Nissan, GM, THINK, Smart and various...

  • 2011 Chevrolet Volt test drive, Michigan, October 2010
    2011 Chevrolet Volt: Full Driving Impressions

    Finally, after almost four years, we've driven the 2011 Chevrolet Volt in a variety of conditions, talked over our impressions, and reached a conclusion: Yes, the 2011 Volt electric car is a real car. It may be propelled by electricity. It may plug into a wall socket or a special garage recharger...

  • 2011 Chevrolet Volt test drive, Michigan, October 2010
    How To Make Your 2011 Chevy Volt Drive Like a Tesla Roadster

    Pretty much anyone who's driven one loves the performance of the Tesla Roadster, the first modern electric car with a lithium-ion battery pack. The 2011 Chevrolet Volt is a much less radical electric car than the Roadster in certain ways, and one of them is its accelerator response. Volt: Just like...

  • iPhone
    Ready For Your Electric Car? Don’t Forget The Smart Phone

    If you’ve got one of the many new electric cars due to launch this year on order you’re probably as excited about going electric as our own Marty Padgett, who is one of the many patiently waiting for a 2011 Nissan Leaf. You’ve already talked with your dealer and perhaps even had a...

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