Two adjacent Southern California cities have been competing for the factory where Tesla Motors will build its all-electric 2012 Model S luxury sports sedan. Now, a pair of local papers have scooped the automotive press and broken the news: Downey beats Long Beach.
Downey Mayor Mario Guerra told the Downey Patriot that the deal is "99.9 percent ..
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In addition to Tesla Motors ‘ potential IPO, there’s two more big pieces of news coming out of the electric vehicle world. Nissan is opening talks about electric cars in China, and the Electrification Coalition has started lobbying for tax credits and loan guarantees to get battery-powered cars on the roads soon.
Nissan’s CEO Carlos Ghosn seems to have switched course. His line used to be that he wouldn’t be selling EVs in China until the country developed incentive programs — something... Read Full Story
Gavin Shoebridge is an electric vehicle nut and keen environmentalist, who wrote the Electric Conversion Made Easy ebook wherein you will see how you can build your own electric car for much less than you might expect. This easy-to-read ebook will take you step-by-step through every single element of planning, implementing, and succeeding with your own EV conversion. You will see how easy it can be to start building your own electric car today and save thousand of dollars in fuel each year... Read Full Story
By Jack Marshall The growing environmental concerns, continuously increasing oil prices, and impending shortage of conventional fuels, have driven people to look for alternative sources of energy. For some, especially for those who are well-off, it may be easy to buy brand new hybrid or electric cars. But for the majority who cannot afford to do so or even those who do not want to do so, there is a way for them to keep their present car while still drawing the benefits of an electric vehicle... Read Full Story
Nissan-Renault CEO Carl Ghosn seems to be taking career advice from Frank White lately; wherever there is an opportunity to start making some money, he wants in . Recognizing that full size vehicles were a cash cow in the U.S., Ghosn wanted his cut. Shortly after taking the reins of Nissan in June of 1999, he built a factory in Mississippi to start churning out big trucks like the Titan and the Armada.
Now, the field has changed. With fuel growing more expensive and the business climate... Read Full Story
Japan's Nissan Motor Co plans to invest 50 billion yen (554 million dollars) to boost battery production for electric vehicles produced by its French partner Renault, a report said Tuesday. Automotive Energy Supply Corp., Nissan's joint venture with the NEC group, will upgrade its plant for lithium ion batteries in Kanagawa prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, the Nikkei business daily reported. Nissan, Japan's third largest automaker, is to invest up to 20 billion yen in the upgrade aimed to... Read Full Story
LOS ANGELES — Nissan’s big bet on electric vehicles rolled silently into Dodger Stadium today, the first stop on the Japanese automaker’s nationwide tour to spread the EV gospel.
Company CEO Carlos Ghosn is among the industry’s loudest EV evangelists, and he firmly believes the four-door, five passenger Nissan Leaf will usher in the era of cleaner, greener motoring when it goes on sale late next year. Nissan joins General Motors and other automakers in promising to bring us electric... Read Full Story
Because of the growing environmental concerns, continuously increasing oil prices, and impending shortage of conventional fuels, people have been looking for alternative sources of energy. For some people, especially for those who are well-off, it may be easy to buy brand new hybrid or electric cars. But for the majority who cannot afford to do so or even those who do not want to do so, there is a way for them to keep their present car while still drawing the benefits of an electric vehicle... Read Full Story
Last week Tesla asked me if I’d like to take the new Tesla Roadster Sport for a day to see what I thought. This is the newer Tesla Roadster that shaves 2/10 of a second off the 0-60 time, and the car is a couple of inches bigger than the original (making it possible for me to fit my 6′4 frame into into it comfortably).
I agreed immediately. The only rules were that only I could drive it (some nonsense about insurance), and I had to have it back by 6 pm. I did return the vehicle on time... Read Full Story
Most people nowadays are considering doing an Electric Car Motor Conversion because of the undeniably continuous oil price hikes that we are faced with. Aside from the rising fuel prices, fossil fuels are beginning to become depleted and our environment is also slowly deteriorating due to massive carbon emissions from cars which contribute to global warming.
Electric cars are different from gasoline-powered vehicles in terms of their sources of power. Gasoline-powered vehicles, from the... Read Full Story
