Nissan gets ready to dominate the electric car industry

Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn unveiled the Nissan LEAF electric car-set in Los Angeles last week. The company plans to put them in the market by the end of 2010. Ghosn said that the LEAF was a new paradigm car and represented a technology that would completely change the way people power-up and drive their cars. [...]

Renault’s Zero Emissions range to reach the market in 2011

Renault’s electric car range Zero Emissions had been among the star attractions at the Frankfurt Motor Show. The company has recently confirmed its plans to manufacture two of these radically designed electric cars for sale and make them available to the public by 2011.
Among the two designs, the two-seater Twizy stands out as not only [...]

Electric Cars on French Roads

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 [...]

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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 Auto Show

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 [...]

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