Electric X1 Prototype: Fast but unaffordable(April 28) - California - Last year the X1 Prototype was released boasting accelerating from 0 to 60 in 3.07 seconds and 117 feet. The purely electric car can drive about 125 miles under normal driving conditions and as low as 25 miles under racing conditions before needing to recharge.  Complete Story

Thinking Electric(April 28) - Emagazine - The car would go 110 miles without a charge and cost less than $25,000 brand new by the end of 2009. Dubbed Think City, the two-seater revs up to about 65 miles per hour max.  Complete Story

Muscle-car designer makes U-turn(April 27) - LA Times - Among his recent projects: the futuristic-looking Aptera, a three-wheeled, all-electric car that can go 120 miles on a charge, and a yacht with a solar-panel roof supplying juice to its electric motors.  Complete Story

An electric car with removable batteries let you charge up in the house(April 25) - Dvice - MIRA HAV, an electric car that's smart enough to allow you to remove the batteries and charge them up in your house. You know, where the outlets are.   Complete Story 
 
Chevy Volt prototype runs on lithium ion batteries for first time!(April 25) - Bob Lutz told the Detroit News in an interview that “we’ve got the first car running (with lithium-ion batteries) … and what the guys get on ’sightings’ is a picture of an old Malibu with black wheels and a very long extension cord.”  Complete Story
  
Think to Bring Electric Car to U.S.--Next Year(April 23) - Wired - We've been down this electrified road before. But the Norwegian firm Th!nk (as it likes to spell itself) has announced yesterday that it will introduce its Think City electric car in the U.S. by the end of next year.  Complete Story

Chicago Restaurant First to Use Solar-Electric Car for Deliveries(April 23) - Illinois - Everyone’s going green, or trying to, and with gas prices soaring, consumer awareness of environmentally friendly vehicles has never been higher.  Complete Story

Hybrid Cars Are Selling Like Hot Cakes, Study Finds (April 22) - Marketing Daily -  Registrations for new hybrid vehicles in the U.S. rose 38% to 350,289 in 2007. R.L. Polk & Co., a market research firm in Southfield, Mich, which released the data on Monday, says the Toyota Prius led the segment with 179,178 new registrations, constituting 51.2% of hybrid vehicle market share. Complete Story

Are Hybrids Too Quiet?(April 22) - New York Times - It happened again last Friday. I was walking with two friends to our car in a parking garage when I got a strange feeling that we were being followed. When I turned my head, I saw the front slope of a Toyota Prius, which was rolling quietly a few feet behind us. Complete Story

The "Car Talk" Guys Look For the Car of the Future(April 22) - Seattle - There will be electric cars for consumers. Will the majority be electric? Eventually. If I look far enough down the line, I see cars running on nothing but electricity, and that electricity coming from nuclear power.   Complete Story

Electric cars take charge in Israel, Denmark(April 22) - Cars - If any automaker is poised for real-world mass-market electric vehicle, it might be Nissan. Here's why: The alliance between Nissan and French automaker Renault will soon be selling electric cars in Israel.  Complete Story

EEStor Technology: The End of Batteries?(April 20) - Natural News - For decades, battery storage technology has been a heavy weight on the back of scientific innovation. From cell phones to electric vehicles, our technological capabilities always seem to be several steps ahead of our ability to power them.  Complete Story

Trade-In a Gas-Guzzler for an Electric Car This Earth Day at ZAP(April 18) - CNNMoney - If your commute is fairly short, ZAP says you can potentially save thousands of dollars per year by trading in your old gas-guzzler for an electric car.  Complete Story
 
China's BYD Auto Co. To Unveil All-Electric Car(April 18) - Wall Street Journal - BYD Auto plans to mass-market in China in about two years an all-electric vehicle that could go 300 kilometers on a single full charge, with an eye toward selling the same car in North America and Europe. Complete Story
 
Lithium Ion Batteries For Cars(April 18) - EcoWorld - A car running on electricity drawn from the power grid and stored on-board can be fueled at about one-third the cost per mile compared to a gasoline-powered car. Complete Story
 
Tesla Sues Fisker Over Electric-Car Designs(April 15) - California - You had to see this one coming — just a few months after the Detroit auto show unveiling of the Fisker Karma hybrid concept, Fisker’s being sued by Tesla Motors, which claims theft of company secrets.  Complete Story
  
Chrysler plans Dodge Ram hybrid in 2010(April 15) - UK - Chrysler plans to roll out a hybrid version of its Dodge Ram pickup truck in 2010 that is similar to two SUVs it is launching this year, the automaker's product development chief said on Monday. Complete Story
 
Why Detroit Should Build a Plug-in Car With Generators Onboard(April 15) - Popular Mechanics - As of this moment in the evergreen vehicle revolution, you still can't buy a purely electric car from a major manufacturer. Oh sure, there are plenty of exciting startups with headline-grabbing machines. Complete Story

Company showcases innovative plug-in car prototype(April 14) - Texas - AFS Trinity Power Corp. showcased its XH-150, an innovative plug-in hybrid sport utility vehicle that can achieve the equivalent of 150 miles per gallon, Friday at Zilker Park. Complete Story

Austin is abuzz with technology in the electric car market(April 13) - Texas - ZENN Motor Co. Inc. of Toronto last month said it would roll out an electric car in the fall of 2009: a real car, top speed 80 miles per hour. You could even take it on MoPac Boulevard (Loop 1). And it recharges in a few minutes. Complete Story

Solar Electric Powered Car Kit a Two Weekend Job(April 11) - UberReview - If you have a bit of time off coming up and are looking for a worthy project, how about building your own solar powered car? The SUNN Solar Electric Car Kit can be pieced together over the space of about 4 or 5 days. Complete Story

Toyota to offer some plug-ins by 2010(April 11) - Detroit - Toyota  plans to market a test fleet of rechargeable hybrid vehicles to companies or government agencies by the end of 2010, raising the stakes in a race with rival General Motors Corp to bring the first mass-market plug-in to market. Complete Story

Ajanta to challenge Nano with electric car(April 10) - India - There is competition for Tata's Nano from Gujarat. The new entrant in the small car sector is the Morbi-based world famous clock-maker Ajanta group. The company is planning to manufacture an electric car at its unit at Samkhiyali in Kutch district and market it at a price lower than Rs 1-lakh Nano.  Complete Story
 
Miles Electric Introduces ZX40ST Work Truck(April 10) - California - The highly anticipated, zero emissions, AC motor MILES ZX40ST work truck will be showcased publicly for the first time at the Green California Summit at the Sacramento Convention Center April 8-9.  Complete Story

Using nanotechnology to improve Li-ion battery performance(April 7) - To meet the demand for batteries having higher energy density and improved cycle characteristics, researchers have been making tremendous efforts to develop new electrode materials or design new structures of electrode materials.  Complete Story

eBay Auction of the Day: 1948 Electric Autoette ‘Cruise About’(April 7) - Allegedly built for the mobile elderly or the painfully frugal (both?) this 1948 Autoette electric car was green before being green was cool…way before.  Complete Story 
 
GM's Chevy Volt Plug-in Concept: How It Works(April 5) - PopularMechanics - The Volt, a new Chevrolet concept car, is a different kind of hybrid. In a stand­ard “parallel” hybrid, such as the Toyota Prius, a gasoline engine provides most of the drive to the wheels, assisted by a battery-powered electric motor. Complete Story

Plug-in hybrid cars ready to roll in California(April 5) - New Scientist Tech - Last week the state's Air Resources Board ruled that makers must produce at least 58,000 "plug-in" hybrid vehicles for sale in California between 2012 and 2014.  Complete Story

EnerDel Provides Market Update on Think Global Supply Agreement(April 4) - EnerDel, the advanced automotive battery systems division of alternative energy company Ener1, Inc. , today announced its progress toward meeting the lithium-ion battery system deliverables schedule under a supply contract with Think Global.   Complete Story

Road for electric car makers full of potholes(April 4) - LA Times - On an overcast Friday in February, about 100 people gathered behind Tesla Motors Inc. headquarters, awaiting the future of transportation. A truck pulled up with a trailer, which disgorged a sleek black electric sports car that promises to change the world as much as the Model T did a century ago.  Complete Story

GM road-tests batteries for Volt electric car(April 4) - CNNMoney - "The lithium-ion batteries to be used in General Motors' Chevrolet Volt electric car will soon be installed and tested in specially-equipped versions of the Chevrolet Malibu, the company said.  Complete Story

Top 10 Cars That Pollute the Least(April 4) - Forbes - What comes out of a car's tailpipe is just as important as what goes into the fuel tank. Fuel economy gets lots of play because of rising fuel costs, but exhaust emissions from motor vehicles have a huge impact on the planet and people's health. Complete Story

Eco-friendly car insurance 'increasing in popularity'(April 4) - UK - According to Nick Dear, external communications consultant with the firm, 22 million drivers would consider switching to a hybrid car, such as the Toyota Prius, if it was cheaper to run than a normal car, so insurance companies need to meet that demand. Complete Story

Tesla eyes Europe for electric car sales(April 3) - Automotive Business - Encouraged by the weak dollar value, Tesla Motors has decided to sell the Roadster, its electric sports car, in Europe by the third quarter of the current financial year, reported the Financial Times.  Complete Story

Cheap electric cars - part 2(April 3) - Renault-Nissan will produce cars in cooperation with Project Better Place for use in Israel. The cars will have a range of about 100 km in city driving and up to 160 km on the highway. The cars will accelerate from zero to 100 kph in 13 seconds and have a top speed of 110 kph. The cars, to be made in Europe, will run on a battery developed by Nissan and Japan's NEC.  Complete Story

The Electric Super Car Race Heats Up(April 2) - BusinessWeek - It seems a transatlantic battle is brewing in the high-performance electric sportscar market. As America's Tesla moves into the production phase with its 130+mph Roadster, Britain's Lightning GT is hot on its heels, with prototypes expected to hit the road later this year.   Complete Story

Could the futuristic Aptera be the new face of hybrid technology?(April 1) - According to nationwide vehicle registration data compiled by hybridcars.com, U.S. hybrid sales grew by 38 percent in 2007 to 350,000 units, compared with 250,000 units sold in 2006. Toyota dominated other car companies in 2007 with sales of the Prius and Camry Hybrid.  Complete Story

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