Each car maker has its own idea of applying electric technology to cars. This week the Tokyo Auto Show gives the Japanese car makers a chance to show their concepts, and while Lexus and Nissan show electric concept cars, Mitsubishi is sticking with its PHEV design despite having had one…
What if you have a hankering for a specific car, like the 1967 Mustang, but you want it to be electric rather than powered by the 287 cubic inch gasser engine Ford sold it with. There is a whole subculture of folks converting gas cars to electric, most of whom…
Anybody wanting a 200+ mile range electric car, and liking the utilitarian shape of the Kia Soul EV, and residing in the USA, is feeling disappointed today. Recently Kia made it clear that USA sales of the 2020 Kia eSoul, the revamped Soul EV with 243 mile electric driving range…
It was reported today that a Tesla Model S patrol car owned by the Fremont, CA police department ran out of power during a pursuit. The reporting does not say what happens when a gasoline powered patrol car runs out of gasoline. Instead it calls out the Tesla patrol car,…
Taking the shape of a muscle car from an earlier era, Renovo Motors has unveiled the Renovo Coupe all electric supercar. The car, based on a factory-modified Shelby American CSX9000 rolling chassis (“Cobra Daytona Coupe”), has a 0-60 miles/hr time under 3.4 seconds and a top speed over 120 miles/hr.…
An electric race car team in Australia just became the first team to race an electric car against gas powered race cars on equal terms. The team, ELMOFO (electro motive force), builds high end electric cars, and has built a race car based on a Radical SR8 chassis. With that…
Another automaker has broken the electric car laptime at the Nürburgring Nordschleife. This is the famed huge track in Germany, the north loop (the Nordschleife) of which is 20 kilometers long (12 miles). The new laptime, announced a week ago, was set by Mercedes-Benz with the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Coupé Electric…
Coverage of Detroit Electric’s electric sportscar, the SP:01, is portrayed as if the SP:01 is the fastest electric vehicle on the planet. At 155 miles/hr top speed it’s a fast electric vehicle, but it’s not the fastest electric vehicle in existence. It isn’t even the fastest production electric vehicle in…
Renault has announced they will announce something about “When the worlds of Formula 1 and electric cars meet…”. That obtuse announcement of a pending announcement was accompanied by a nearly useless picture showing something vaguely electric performance car related. I hesitated posting anything, preferring to wait until the April 25…
Formula E has signed a second team, China Racing, for the 2014 racing season. The Chinese team is the second entry officially proposed to the FIA in the new global electric racing championship. The announcement was made on Feb. 27 at the FIA headquarters in Paris. The Chinese team will…
The Formula E electric race car series is beginning to take shape for their first season, currently scheduled for 2014. Yesterday the series announced an agreement that Rome will be the first European city to host a Formula E race. In November the series announced a deal with McLaren and…
The Japan Electric Racing Vehicle Association recently held an electric car race at Japan’s Sportsland Sugo race track. Going by their website they’ve held several races this year. For the first time, on the Sept 4 race, Nissan’s LEAF NISMO RC team came to the race for it’s first official electric…
Since Tesla Motors has such a reputation for high powered electric cars, it must seem that the company is an obvious choice to launch an electric car racing event of some kind. Today, Jalopnik posted an interview with Elon Musk in which he was asked almost precisely that question: How…
Kleenspeed, developer of electric vehicle drive train components, just distributed a press release going over results of their recent testing with the EV-X11 electric race car. This car is based on the West WX-10 race car chassis, and has been outfitted with electric drive train components for Kleenspeed to use…
The StuntBusters show on SPEEDTV did an attempt to show which is faster – gas or electric. The event was staged and not terribly like real race conditions. So we shouldn’t read into this anything more than an attempt to entertain and inform people. And, for sure, it put electric…
