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. [...]

Reva and New York based Bannon Automotive enter into a joint venture

Reva Electric Car Company from Bangalore, India has entered into a joint venture with a US based car maker Bannon Automotive for opening an assembly plant in a Syracuse suburb. The company plans to assemble its plug in electric car, a three-door hatchback called NXR and a sporty two-seater electric car called the NXG [...]

Electric Cars: Plug to Ride!!

The growing concerns over deteriorating environment and depleting fuel reserves have sparked a spate of research for new technology to run vehicles. The criteria for such vehicles being, they must not pollute.
Companies like Nissan, Reva and Honda are locked in the battle to start production of viable prototypes of electric cars for sale. It seems [...]

Obama Grants a Whopping $2.4 Billion Aid for Electric Cars

Mr. President on his tour of Southern California has announced a financial support of $2.4 billion for the electric cars. He laid emphasis on his environmental jobs agenda by visiting the electric cars testing facility situated in Pomona where he made the announcement. This competitive grant program was made with the intention to have electric [...]

Cost-Effective Electric Cars

The British government has set a target according to which at least one out of 10 cars on the roads will be electric by 2020. This autumn the iMIEV (Mitsubishi Innovative Electric Vehicle) has gone in for production and is expected to hit the market later in the year. Given the sky-high price of the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Tesla in Red

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 [...]

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