GM’s latest video on YouTube attempts to reassure the public about Chevy Volt battery pack safety, in wake of the recent controversy over the battery pack fire during crash testing last year. General Motors has its work cut out for it, to rehabilitate their image following the hyped up controversy…
The 2013 Tesla Model X unveiled tonight is an all-electric full size SUV/minivan, capable of holding 7 full size adults and all their luggage, and with the right options is capable of out accelerating a Porsche 911. This evening Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk revealed the long-awaited Model X Electric SUV before a huge crowd…
The excitement over the rebirth of the DeLorean sports car, in between 88 miles per hour jokes, is news that the chassis and battery pack will be built by Aptera alum companies Epic Electric Vehicles and Flux Power. Like an 88 miles/hr bolt of lightning from the past, DeLorean Motor…
You may have noticed a hyped-up controversy attached to the Chevy Volt, the current round of which is the battery pack fire plus side issues like the amount of federal support behind the Volt. The controversy, irregardless of whether there’s a real danger, is causing some to suggest that GM…
The ActiveE is phase two of BMW’s project i which is developing an electric car technology leading to launch of the BMW i3 and i8 in 2013. In July 2009 BMW launched the Mini-E program in which several hundred “Pioneers” who would lease a converted electric Mini Cooper in exchange…
The NV200 is Nissan’s flexible multi-purpose vehicle, with the e-NV200 slated to be its zero emission electric model starting in 2017. Nissan’s e-NV200 electric “multi-usage vehicle” (a.k.a. commercial van) was unveiled today in Detroit at the North American International Auto Show. It is an all electric version of Nissan’s popular…
Start-up electric car company, Coda Automotive, has been four years in developing their all electric sedan, is setting up dealerships, and is going into production and launching sales over the next few months. Coda Automotive was at the Silicon Valley Autoshow this week giving us a chance to see what…
Start-up company Coda Automotive has developed a good looking electric car, that offers excellent value compared to the other electric cars in the $39k price range. Granted that the $39k base price for the Coda Automotive all electric sedan is well above typical gasoline powered sedans. At this juncture the…
In the first time in over 110 years since electric taxi’s were last used in New York, Nissan and NYC are working together to develop the Taxi of the Future starting with a fleet of Nissan LEAF’s. Beginning in the Spring of 2012, New York City plans to deploy six…
Two dozen Nissan Leaf electric cars were mangled in the tsunami, with no battery pack fires, giving us anecdotal battery pack safety evidence compared with the Chevy Volt. The Fukushima tsunami that proved deadly last Spring to TEPCO’s nuclear power plants, was no problem at all for the Nissan Leafs…
Volt: Lithium manganese spinel from LG Chem; Spark EV: lithium iron phosphate from A123 Systems. Both are supposed to be safe. In October, GM announced the Chevy Spark EV would be sold in select U.S. and global markets beginning in 2013. The Chevy Volt crash testing battery pack fires have…
Retrieved from: http://toyotanews.pressroom.toyota.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=2015 July 16, 2010 Palo Alto, California, U.S.A., and Tokyo, Japan — TESLA MOTORS, INC. (Tesla) and TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (TMC) today announced that the two companies have signed an agreement to initiate the development of an electric version of the RAV4 as announced in May of this year…
The LEAF tour has been in the San Francisco Bay Area this week, and today was at the Santana Row shopping center in San Jose. The tour will be in various cities across the U.S. and those who are interested should go to Nissan’s website (see The Nissan LEAF is…
The news last week about a management shakeup at Aptera was troubling indeed. When founders are ousted from the company they started it’s usually a signal of troubles irregardless of soothing press releases from the company in question. Aptera’s soothing press release claims that founders Steve Fambro and Chris Anthony…
The Nissan LEAF was first disclosed to the public on Aug 2 and it is expected to be for sale on the market in late 2010. This fall and winter Nissan is taking the LEAF on a tour of the U.S. to raise awareness about this vehicle. “Nissan is the…
