Electric Cars

  • Volkswagen Golf Blue e-Motion

    Despite Volkswagen's green technology mainly being focused on clean diesels, the company are clearly serious about their EV program too, having lured Joerg Sommer from Renault to be their new sales director for e-mobility. The ex-Renault man previously ran the French company's EV brand operations leading to the launches of the Fluence, Kangoo, Twizy and Zoe Z.E. models. Now, he'll be responsible for putting cars like the upcoming Golf EV on the road. Sommer joins several other top motor industry executives that VW have poached in recent years to fulfil their aim of becoming the world's...

  • Toyota RAV4 facelift for the 2010 Geneva Motor Show
    Toyota To Pay Tesla $60 Million For RAV4 Electric Components

    What does it cost to develop an electric vehicle these days? In the case of the upcoming electric Toyota RAV4 crossover, $60 million. At least, that's the amount that Toyota will pay Tesla Motors under a contract to supply lithium-ion battery packs, electric motors, gearboxes, power electronics...

  • 2011 Chevrolet Volt test drive, Michigan, October 2010
    2011 Chevrolet Volt Production Number To Rise Slightly, Again

    Once again, Chevrolet has upped planned production volumes of its 2011 Volt electric car in the face of strong demand and the likelihood that many dealers have more buyers than cars to sell them. In July, at a media event discussing launch markets and other details, Volt marketing manager Tony...

  • Tesla Motors, Palo Alto, California
    Touched By Tesla: Why Tesla’s Future Lies In Engineering

    Despite what some electric car conversion advocates will tell you, making a good electric car is extremely hard. It takes skill, money, resources and many hours of time. What’s more, the history books are littered with the names of small independent companies who tired and failed to produce...

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    Should You Buy Or Lease Your Electric Car?

    If you're reading this website, chances are you're already someone giving some consideration to owning an electric car. If so, great! You're one step further than the next guy to an oil-free future. However, for some the next hurdle could be a bigger one - should you lease the electric car of your...

  • 2011 Tesla Roadster 2.5
    The 2011 Tesla Roadster 2.5 What Do YOU Want To Know?

    We’ve already covered the updated 2011 Tesla Roadster 2.5 upgrade on AllCarsElectric and although our John Voelcker has given the 2010 Roadster a 7.4 out of 10 over at TheCarConnection, we’ve yet to put the 2011 Roadster 2.5 through its paces. Updated with a new grille, some performance...

  • Rabobank EV charging

    The end of 2010 is fast approaching and that means in a few short months we’ll see the launch of several different plug-in vehicles. But as the 2011 Nissan Leaf, 2011 Coda Sedan, 2011 Chevrolet Volt, 2011 Wheego Whip LiFE and others hit the roads of the U.S., hundreds of new electric car and plug-in vehicle owners will discover that there’s an unwritten set of rules regarding what you should and should not do when recharging your EV. So here’s our ultimate guide to ensure that you never commit an electric car related faux pas the next time you plug your car in. Rule Number...

  • 2011 Nissan Leaf stickers
    2011 Nissan Leaf: While You Wait, Have Some Stickers

    You've heard by now that I'm buying a 2011 Nissan Leaf. In case you're wondering, it's a Cayenne Red SV, which I'm hoping implies some hyper-real blend of Porsche and Lamborghini performance. Maybe? Maybe not. I won't be among the first folks to take delivery, though. Lance Armstrong already has...

  • Best Buy
    Best Buy Joins Electric Car Infrastructure, Installs Charging Points

    As any gadget geek will tell you, the electronics retailer Best Buy is a great place to get everything from the latest windscreen televisions and kitchen appliances through to electric bicycles and even in select stores, the 2011 Brammo Enertia. We already know how switched onto electric cars Best...

  • Think City electric vehicle
    THINK City World's Best-Selling City EV; 2,500 And Counting

    With the media kerfuffle surrounding the 2011 Chevrolet Volt and anticipation mounting for 2011 Nissan Leaf customers, it's easy to forget that there are other electric cars out there. Even successful ones, it seems. Swedish electric city car maker THINK are more than 20 years old and have just...

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    2011 Volt "GM Lied" Debate: They Hate GM, They Really Hate GM

    This will be our last word on the whole "GM Lied!" and "Is the Volt a hybrid?" controversy, which blew up yesterday at the first day of the 2011 Chevrolet Volt press launch. Late last night, GM issued a press release (largely reprised on its Voltage site) entitled "Clearing up confusion about the...

  • 2011 Chevrolet Volt with hood open, showing range extender engine and Voltec drive
    Five Reasons Why Voltgate Won’t Hurt Sales Of The 2011 Chevy Volt

    When the proverbial waste-product hit the fan yesterday with the revelation that GM could possibly have “lied to us” about just how its 2011 Chevy Volt operated we sat back and waited for the dust to settle. After all, the tabloid reporting of some sites didn’t tell us anything we...

  • 2011 Chevrolet Volt

    For some reason, while none of us think twice about plugging in our mobile phones to recharge overnight, the prospect of plugging in a car makes some people very nervous. On yesterday's test drive of a 2011 Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car, we visited the Detroit-Hamtramck factory where Volts are now being built. In their parking lot is a set of spots that have 240-Volt charging stations at the curb, shaded by an array of photovoltaic solar panels that contributes power to the recharging equipment. In less than one minute, we opened the door of the Volt's charging port, unhooked the...

  • Range Anxiety
    Four Ways To Combate Long-Distance Electric Car Range Anxiety

    Range Anxiety, or the fear that an electric car will run out of charge before it reaches its destination, has to be the ultimate boogeyman of the electric car world. It stems from the fact that most electric cars on the market today have a range per-charge much smaller than the 200-500 miles...

  • 2011 Chevrolet Volt
    2011 Chevrolet Volt: First Impressions, Tech And Questions

    If you follow AllCarsElectric with any regularity, you might just be familiar with a certain new Chevrolet known as the Volt. We've probably mentioned it at some point... Well, the 2011 Chevrolet Volt is now here and our partner site GreenCarReports has been putting the car through its paces at the...

  • 2011 Coda Sedan, final production version
    Enterprise To Add 100 2011 Coda Sedans To Its Electric Car Fleet

    Electric cars and the rental market seem made for one another. While you’re not easily going to be able to make huge long-distance family trips in an electric rental car, all electric rental cars are ideal for visitors to larger cities throughout the U.S., be they on holiday or stop-over...

  • Voltec electric drive unit on 2011 Chevrolet Volt
    What a 2011 Chevy Volt Has In Common With a Huge Tahoe Hybrid

    Put them side by side, and they could be vehicles from two different planets. The new 2011 Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car is GM's green halo car, its foray into the future of electric drive vehicles, and the focus of a huge marketing and publicity effort. The 2011 Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid...

  • 2011 Chevrolet Volt
    2011 Chevrolet Volt: Electric Drive Impressions

    In one light, it was nothing more than a drive in a new car on a sunny autumn afternoon. But in another, it meant taking the wheel of the most radical new car since the 1997 Toyota Prius—perhaps more significant yet—and driving it on public roads for the first time. After almost four...

  • 2011 Chevrolet Volt

    After just shy of four years, two distinct body styles, much disbelief, and more press releases than we can count, the 2011 Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric car is here. We'll be driving the 2011 Volt this week, and we have a lot of questions about what the car is like. But we expect you do, too, so here's our offer: Send us your questions about the Chevy Volt--any aspect at all of the car, the charging process, or the launch of GM's first electric car since the late lamented EV1--and we'll do our best to provide you with answers. To spark your thoughts, remember that we drove a...

  • BMW Megacity Vehicle official teaser
    From The Fastest To The Greenest: BMW F1 Expertise For EVs

    "Racing improves the breed". So said the late Soichiro Honda, believing that the lessons learned on the racing cars and motorcycles could be used to improve the marque's road vehicles. The evidence is plain to see. Technologies such as anti-lock brakes, traction control, unibody chassis...

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    Curiouser and Curiouser: Tesla's 'Gay' Electric Car Connection

    Oh, what a tangled web we weave in the insular little world of electric car advocates. Take the news earlier today that Universal Pictures has agreed to a request from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation that it pull a trailer for a new Vince Vaughan movie in which the B-list star...

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    Hey Ron Howard: So Electric Cars Aren't That 'Gay' After All?

    The news came via a Facebook status from another automotive journalist: "Interesting. Phrase 'Electric cars are gay' pulled from Ron Howard movie." To which we could only respond, huh? [UPDATE: Turns out that there's even a Tesla angle too.] Turns out the upcoming movie The Dilemma, starring Vince...

  • GM EV1 Anti-Crush Protests,  Screenshot, Who Killed The Electric Car?
    Can Electric Cars Be Hurt By Bitter Electric-Car Advocates?

    Every political or social movement has its cross to bear. Every trend has a stereotype from which to break free. So it seems time to ask, is the public image of electric cars and other plug-in vehicles being damaged by those who maintain that a huge and evil global conspiracy exists against the EV?...

  • 2010 Toyota Prius
    Bad News For Electric Cars: Consumers Don't Understand Them

    Despite the hype and the near-ubiquity of the Toyota Prius (pictured), most Americans remain leery of buying alternative-fuel vehicles. That’s probably because they don’t have the basic knowledge to understand it, according to a new survey conducted by Harris Interactive. The survey...

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