Electric Cars and Cheap Gasoline

The Detroit Auto Show promises to be electrifying, literally. Car manufacturers are ready to gamble on the potential market for electric cars even on the face of dropping gas prices. The opening of the North American International Auto Show was witness to big players like Ford Motor Company, Chrysler and General Motors unveiling concepts and [...]

New Company Plans Network of Electric Car Charging Stations

A company called Better Place has plans of installing thousands of battery replacement and plug-in stations that would serve electric car drivers. The startup from Palo Alto created a stir when it revealed that it would be building thousands of stations where electric car batteries could be recharged, as well as replaced.
This would lead more [...]

Chrysler’s electrifying strategy

Chrysler is planning to manufacture a full line of reasonably priced electric cars for sale. The series would include minivans, as well as off road vehicles. Chrysler’s electric car plans would chiefly revolve around keeping things cheap. These new electric cars would be developed keeping low cost and flexibility in mind so they would not [...]

2009 Electric Cars

The ongoing economic crisis has hit automakers to the point that some are considering filing for bankruptcy, but that doesn’t mean that we will not see new 2009 electric cars for sale. On the contrary, there is much to look forward to in 2009.
You can expect a number of new gas-electric hybrids in the coming [...]

Major automakers and their electric babies

There’s been so much hype about electric cars in the recent times because most of the major car makers across the globe have gone into manufacturing electric cars for sale.
Chevrolet is developing a plug in electric car Volt, which it aims to roll out for sale by 2010. It would be a hybrid, which means [...]

Toyota Prius Hybrids

A number of drivers, especially Toyota Prius owners are increasingly converting their Prius Hybrids into plug in electric cars by installing an extra battery. Though it comes at a hefty price of $10,000, a Watertown based company A123 Systems which started selling it online July onwards, has already sold to 200 hybrid car owners. Six [...]

The Challenging Ride of Tesla Motors

Tesla Motors has been developing high-performance electric cars for sale. It has already attracted the attention of heavy weights like PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, who is its main backer, and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Tesla Motors has raised $186 million until now.
It has produced the Tesla Roadster, which is a plug in [...]

Australia Announces Introduction of Recharging Stations

The world stands at the edge of a big technological revolution with electric cars poised to make a huge comeback. Yes this will be a comeback, it may surprise many people to know that when cars first introduced, they were powered by electricity. It was only later that the internal combustion engine was developed and [...]

Mitsubishi raises the bar

Electric cars had been regarded as a part of hobby mechanics over several decades. It’s only in recent times that they are making a big comeback, buoyed by the increasing fuel prices and protests over environmental degradation. Most of the major automakers worth their salt have announced or are in the process of developing electric [...]

The Dodge EV from Chrysler

The electric car industry is charged up like never before, and that augurs well for the world. Every few weeks we get to hear news about some new or established auto maker revealing its plans for developing electric cars for sale. Chrysler which had already entered the electric car race recently unveiled three prototypes of [...]

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