Covering Electric Cars For The Sake Of Our Future
This week’s Tokyo motor show is going to be buzzing with talk of zero-emission cars as some major electric car companies are going to launch their concept electric cars. However it will take some time before these cars roll out for the mass market.
Toyota, which is one of the world’s leading car-makers, will be [...]
Toyota’s first plug-in electric car has been officially announced by the company. It has been developed by Matsumoto’s team. Toyota’s new car has an electric, as well as petrol engine but is different and better than the Prius, an earlier hybrid car developed by Matsumoto. The new improved battery of the electric car can be [...]
Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc would be introducing its 2010 Prius Hybrid car at the 2009 North American International Auto Show, Detroit. The 2010 Prius has a new revised Hybrid system that would help it compete in the emergent market for electric cars. The 2010 Prius promises to provide better fuel economy and mileage.
Though most [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
If you check out the stock prices of the top car manufacturing companies, you will find out that players like General Motors and Ford have not been doing too well. On the other hand companies that came later like Toyota and Honda, are steadily rising up the ranks and closing in on the top spots. [...]