Two of the biggest makers of electric cars are pushing plans to lift sales: General Motors, aiming for the luxury market with the Cadillac ELR, and Nissan, with a cheaper Leaf.
Bob Lutz is taking the green Fisker Karma and putting in a Corvette engine. Why? Why not.
The Cadillac ELR is a plug-in hybrid luxury coupe based on the Chevrolet Volt.
The Japanese automaker cut the price of its base Leaf model by 18 percent and announced other improvement to spur consumer interest in the electric car, which is a cornerstone of Nissan's strategy.
The midsize 6-passenger S.U.V. is designed specifically for the North American market.
Owners' suggestions figured into many of the changes for the electric car.
Adding the Accord hybrid will require hiring an additional 50 workers and a $23 million investment, a Honda spokesman said.
Although the Obama administration has a stated goal of buying only alternative-technology vehicles for the federal government's fleet of vehicles by 2015, the number of hybrid and electric vehicles bought by the government dropped by a third last year, according to Bloomberg News.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration wants vehicles to be louder when going less than 18 miles per hour so cyclists and pedestrians can hear them better.
Only 23,461 Chevy Volts were sold last year -- about a third of one percent of all new passenger cars in the United States -- but they may be the harbingers of a shift on roads around the world.
The Nascar season opener will be called the Sprint Unlimited at Daytona and will be run on Feb. 16 at 8 p.m. Eastern time.
When power flickers, so does consumer enthusiasm. Yet some manufacturers are pushing ahead with the idea that a profound need exists.
Fisker Automotive has filed a lawsuit against its insurance company after being denied coverage for 338 Karma plug-in hybrids that were destroyed in Hurricane Sandy.
The E.P.A. says the Fusion Energi can get the equivalent of 108 miles per gallon in city driving.
Mainstream car buyers don’t understand that the higher upfront cost of an electric vehicle could be recouped, at least in part, by cost savings on fuel, a new study says.
It has been a good year for the electrification of the automobile. No fewer than eight significant plug-in models came to market in the United States in 2012.
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If realized, the cars will be twice as efficient as electric vehicles and four times as efficient as hybrids.
Jaguar is dropping its plans to build hybrid supercars based on the C-X75 concept.
The first batteries, which Nissan began producing in Smyrna in October, have gone through the required aging process, which takes several weeks; and now they are ready to receive a charge, a Nissan spokesman said.
