Electric Vehicles

You simply cannot go wrong buying your child or grandchild a Razor e300 electric scooter. Why will your child like this hot scooter? That’s easy. The high powered, variable speed, chain-driven motor will push them along at speeds up to 15 mile per hr. Your child will be riding around the neighborhood in style. And [...]  

Eco Factor: Renewable energy powered electric vehicle charging station. New York-based Beautiful Earth Group has unveiled a solar-powered electric vehicle charging station in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The first-of-its-kind charging station in New York..  

Every year, Swiss tuner Rinspeed dreams up another wild car for the Geneva Auto Show, from tuned Porsches to a submersible Lotus to last year's iPhone-controlled EV. This year's car is tame, even — gasp! — production-capable when it goes on ...  

Published December 14, 2009 Low-volume hybrids, like the new BMW ActiveHybrid 7, will immediately begin to use lithium ion batteries. By 2015, nearly all hybrids will use the new battery technology, driving down the cost for consumers. It’s commonly reported that lithium ion batteries will... DailyTech - Toyota Officially Launches Plug-in Prius Program  

Coulomb Technologies, a maker of electric vehicle charging station infrastructure, reports the first networked charging stations for electric vehicles are now available in Canada. The ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations available for consumer and fleet use are now installed at the headquarters of Rapid Electric Vehicles (REV) in Vancouver.  

Lithium Ion Batteries for Plug-in Hybrid and Battery Electric Vehicles: Market Analysis and Forecasts Clint Wheelock and John Gartner, 4Q 2009 (Pike Research) "Battery-powered cars as well as hybrid-electric vehicles that also include a gasoline engine have been a part of the automobile industry since its inception…The success of mass-produced internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles relegated lead acid batteries to the reduced role for...  

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Nissan 2010 Nissan Leaf - Click above for high-res image gallery Nissan is steaming ahead at full speed on its electric car plans but it's not ignoring the infrastructure elements required to make those vehicles a viable proposition. This week, the automaker announced a partnership with the city of San Francisco to help create the elements needed for success. The city is a part of the Bay Area EV corridor that covers...  

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Nissan North America and the City of San Francisco, on behalf of the Bay Area EV Corridor program, are working together to advance zero-emission mobility by promoting the development of an electric vehicle (EV) charging network. The cities of Oakland ...  

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. and the City of Kita-Kyushu, Japan signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly promote zero-emission mobility. The project named “Kita-Kyushu; Environment and Technology Town ‘e-Frontier Project’”, aims to create a low-carbon society through the mass...  

Sanyo let out word that they will parade their Solar Electric Vehicle (EV) at the upcoming Eco Products 2009 International Exhibition in Tokyo, where this solar EV will be powered not by Eneloops, but Sanyo's very own Solar Panels and Lithium Ion batteries. The truck (sorry, no fancy sports car here) is able to run up to a purported 130km after 16 hours of direct solar charging, while those who decide to take the more conventional approach of...  

COPENHAGEN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tesla Motors will host test-drives and lead informational sessions about electric vehicles during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change this week in Denmark. The conference, dubbed COP15, is an appropriate showcase for Tesla, the only automaker in the world producing and selling highway-capable electric vehicles. COP15 organizers have gone to great lengths to reduce the carbon footprint of an...  

The Tazzari Zero. Click to enlarge. The Tazzari Group gave the ZERO electric vehicle its debut at the Bologna Motor Show (4-8 December). The city EV will go onsale in January 2010, via an international distribution network already present in...  

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation has developed an electric vehicle (EV) charging system for apartment complexes, in conjunction with Japan Delivery System Corporation (JDS), which constructs and sells "delivery box" locker systems for package deliveries when tenants are not at home. The system, called i-Charger, will be sold by JDS starting from December 1, 2009.  

Battery life is the bane of of electric vehicle manufacturers. At this point, batteries aren't advanced enough for cars to go significant distances without either switching out for a fresh battery or recharging at a designated station. And as we've seen, it's hard to build out an EV infrastructure without EVs on the road. Nissan, however, thinks it has a solution: a new battery that can double an EV's range. The battery, which is made of...