Electric Cars For Sale

Tesla Motors, one of the cutting edge electric car companies, which has people like the founders of Google, George Clooney and Arnold Schwarzenegger among its fans, has announced that it has been hit by the global financial crisis and is losing money.
Tesla Motors was banking on an investment of $100m, which failed to materialize because [...]

France is preparing itself to welcome electric cars, with President Nicolas Sarkozy pledging to mobilize around €400 million of public money over a period of four years, on the research and development of electric cars. Furthermore EDF also announced that it had entered into agreements with PSA Peugeot Citroen and Renault to build infrastructure for [...]

Shai Agassi, who is quite well known as an electric car evangelist, has been trying to popularize a new way of selling electric cars, which according to him would make them cheaper and bring the prices to the level of regular cars, if not lesser. Mr. Agassi, who used to be a software executive, say [...]

The Paris Motor Show had some major car companies showing off their upcoming electric cars. A number of models were on display and the atmosphere was charged with electricity. Certain doubts remained, however. Some executives acknowledged that their companies’ electric car plans could be slowed down due to uncertainties pertaining to batteries, as well as [...]

Tesla Motors, the luxury electric car manufacturer recently announced its intentions of building a $250 million manufacturing unit in San Jose. It plans to build a new $60,000 sedan at this factory. The area would also have Tesla’s headquarters and is expected to employ around 1000 people. The site should be able to put roll [...]

Meridian Energy, a company from New Zealand has revealed its electric car plans. It intends to manufacture New Zealand’s first electric cars for sale within a few months. Meridian Energy has entered into a deal with a Japanese car manufacturing company for the purpose.
This comes at a time when car owners around the world [...]

It has been difficult for electric car companies to introduce electric cars for sale in the US market because of its people’s driving habits, as well as the powerful lobby of US automobile industry that is working against it. This has forced electric car companies to seek alternate avenues of entering this promising market. Project [...]

“We’re the last manufacturing company of electric passenger automobiles in the United States - in fact, in the whole world.” – These words were uttered in 1934 by Alfred Renz, who was the president of Detroit Electric Co. The Detroit Electric Co. was established in 1907, and within 3 years it reached its peak selling [...]

Where Oslo has seen a 5 percent reduction in the sales of new cars in the past year, it has also been witness to increasing popularity of the electric car. According to figures, electric car companies have registered increased sales to the tune of 74 percent during the last year.
Electric car companies ElbilNorge and Think [...]

Though the technology exists, yet none of the world’s major car manufacturers have been able to come out with good electric cars for sale that last on the roads. There have been erratic and infrequent efforts resulting in half hearted products, which the users have rejected for obvious reasons. Tired of waiting for car manufacturers [...]