The Renault ZOE could be a game changing electric car thanks to a low price and fast charging system. Ahead of launching sales of the Renault ZOE all electric car in March, the company released a full write-up on Tuesday. The write-up gives more details on what may be a…
Lightning Motorcycles has signed two-time Isle of Man TT Winner Cameron Donald to race for the team in the TT Zero and European electric motorcycle racing. The Australian won both the Superbike and Superstock classes during the 2008 TT Week. He joins Michael Barnes and Miguel Duhamel on the Lightning…
Nissan says they will return to the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2014, with an electric race car. Maybe. The press release isn’t precise enough to be certain, but it did promise an “all-new race car incorporating electric technology.” Nismo LEAF RC Electric Race Car That’s enough to make…
Toyota Racing up’s its hybrid race car game with a revised TS030 Hybrid car. Okay, it’s got a gasoline engine in it so why are we covering this on ElectricRaceNews? It’s because of the hybrid half of the machine, with Supercapacitors boosting its performance and enabling the TS030 to perform…
What’s billed as a revolution in urban traffic is being unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show by Rinspeed between March 7 through 17th, 2013. The company has developed the microMAX, an ingenious commuter vehicle which merges personal and public transportation in very clever fashion. It is not just a transportation…
A group of Model S owners proved last weekend that John Broders failed Tesla Model S road trip could have been a success. The question the last two weeks is, why did the NY Times writer John Broder fail in his Tesla Model S road trip, and did he fake…
Today 350.org organized a series of rallies in Washington D.C. and other U.S. Cities like San Francisco to protest the Keystone XL pipeline. This project has been in the making for a long time, the Keystone XL will (if built) be responsible for carrying oil from Alberta Tar Sands to…
A brave CNN reporter repeated last weeks ill-fated trip by NY Times’ John Broder, and easily drove from Washington D.C. to Boston on electricity, in the winter, stopping only at Supercharger stations. A CNN reporter has one-up’d the NY Times’ John Broder by successfully driving a Tesla Model S from…
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk shows off vehicle log data to back up claims that John Broder essentially fabricated a no-win situation that ended up with the Tesla Model S he’d borrowed on the back of a flatbed truck. On Wednesday evening Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk posted a response…
The electric division in the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is going to have two former Kings of the Mountain in contention. It’s probably a sign of a shift in racing, that two contestants in the electric division are headlining the press release just sent out by the PPIHC organizers…
Lord knows, EV drivers have a low opinion of ECOtality’s Blink electric car charging network already, but last week a news item circulated that the J1772 charging connectors on Blink chargers are overheating when used by electric cars with 6.6 kilowatt on-board chargers. The named cars were the Toyota RAV4…
When the NY Times writer John Broder wrote about his failed Tesla Model S road trip, experienced electric car drivers world-wide rolled their eyes in disbelief over the mistakes he’d made. Last weekend the NY Times published an article by John Broder about his failed attempt to take a Tesla…
Electric motorcycle dealer, Hollywood Electrics, and the M1GP, is making history by bringing the first electric motorcycle racing class to club-level racing. Anybody with a qualifying electric motorcycle can run in M1GP races, and win points within the electric motorcycle class over the season. It sounds like the requirements are…
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) believes that a single cell failure, a short circuit in one cell, on board the Boeing 787 Dreamliner airplanes is the culprit in the battery pack fires that have grounded those airplanes. The problem began occurring about a month ago, several planes had fires…
As expected, Team Mugen Shinden is returning to the Isle of Man TT ZERO for 2013. The announcement is scant on details, but promises a significant performance increase over the 2012 bike. Considering that for their initial outing the team took second place to MotoCzysz, I’d say it’s clear that…
