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 [...]

Electric Cars Made In China

The United States ordered the purchase of 4,800 electric cars from the Shandong Baoya Vehicle Co., Ltd. this year. This electric car company has its own core technologies including the chassis of electric cars, as well as the driveline technology. In addition, according to Baoya’s General Manager, Zhang Haibo, the optimization and adaptation technologies for [...]

Recession – A Blessing in Disguise for Electric Cars?

Recession has hit the world bad, and automakers are among the biggest hit. But this ongoing economic crisis may turn out to be a blessing in disguise for electric car companies. According to certain industry experts, plug in electric cars stand a substantial chance of making a breakthrough in the North American car market in [...]

Toyota’s New Hybrid Car

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 [...]

An international laboratory for electric cars

Electric car companies have a reason to celebrate as a consortium of environment friendly vehicle experts has been created with the objective of making Edinburgh the first electric car city of Britain. The group led by Ash Gupta, a former Ford marketing guru applied to the Technology Strategy Board last week to get permission for a year-long [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The British government goes out of its way to support electric cars

The present worldwide financial crisis has hit sales of cars in UK. But the British government’s commitment towards ensuring a better environment, by supporting electric cars remains steadfast. The government recently announced a pilot scheme to test how electric cars fare on the roads of Britain.
The scheme would involve purchasing several electric cars and testing [...]

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 [...]

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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