Arriving early next year, the all-new 2014 Honda Accord Hybrid Plug-In sedan will beat all comers in the arena of power and efficiency, or so the automaker says. Utilizing the next-generation Accord platform debuted recently, Honda will be offering four new powertrain choices including Hybrid and Hybrid Plug-In variants. And for the first time in [...]
Arriving early next year, the all-new 2014 Honda Accord Hybrid Plug-In sedan will beat all comers in the arena of power and efficiency, or so the automaker says. Utilizing the next-generation Accord platform debuted recently, Honda will be offering four new powertrain choices including Hybrid and Hybrid Plug-In variants. And for the first time in [...]
The story of the 2012 Toyota RAV4 EV represents the melding of two corporate cultures — one a staid but successful Japanese behemoth, the other, Tesla, the disruptive California start-up — into a single machine.
The 2013 Honda Fit EV is a nicely packaged version of the gasoline-powered car that makes it easy to hoard miles.
THE gridlocked freeways of California are the stuff of legend, so when the state's Air Resources Board began administering a sticker program granting drivers of plug-in hybrids a free pass into high-occupancy-vehicle lanes, a flood of applications was expected. The flood has instead been a trickle. Since the program started in January, the California Motor Vehicles Department has issued 4,092 of the green-colored stickers to drivers who own or lease the Chevrolet Volt or Toyota Prius Plug...
Fast chargers for electric vehicles are already available, but their connectors are largely incompatible. As standards wars go, the debate over which will become the industry leader is a version of the battle between Betamax and VHS.
Souping up your old steel frame to add a little extra speed and power in the form of an eBike isn't as difficult as you might think. Search Google and you'll quickly find at least 15 kits that come with the essentials: a motor, a motor controller, a throttle, and an e-brake, which start at [...]
Souping up your old steel frame to add a little extra speed and power in the form of an eBike isn't as difficult as you might think. Search Google and you'll quickly find at least 15 kits that come with the essentials: a motor, a motor controller, a throttle, and an e-brake, which start at [...]
Souping up your old steel frame to add a little extra speed and power in the form of an eBike isn't as difficult as you might think. Search Google and you'll quickly find at least 15 kits that come with the essentials: a motor, a motor controller, a throttle, and an e-brake, which start at [...]
The Autotram Extra Grand bus is 98 feet long and can carry 256 passengers.
Demonstrating its commitment to electrified vehicles, Ford is committing $135 million at its new Advanced Electrification Center (formerly the Ford Advanced Engineering Center) in Dearborn, Mich. Ford boasts some 1,000 engineers now working on vehicle electrification with 60 added just this year and more on the way. The new center will allow the automaker to [...]
Demonstrating its commitment to electrified vehicles, Ford is committing $135 million at its new Advanced Electrification Center (formerly the Ford Advanced Engineering Center) in Dearborn, Mich. Ford boasts some 1,000 engineers now working on vehicle electrification with 60 added just this year and more on the way. The new center will allow the automaker to [...]
Demonstrating its commitment to electrified vehicles, Ford is committing $135 million at its new Advanced Electrification Center (formerly the Ford Advanced Engineering Center) in Dearborn, Mich. Ford boasts some 1,000 engineers now working on vehicle electrification with 60 added just this year and more on the way. The new center will allow the automaker to [...]
You have to do more than buy a Toyota Prius, if you want to reverse global warming.
The struggling American battery maker A123 Systems, which got a green technology grant from the U.S. government, has said a Chinese auto parts maker is looking to take a controlling stake.
FOR a company trying to put wireless charging devices on electric cars, road trips can be interesting. WiTricity is the company, based near Boston, that has partnerships with Audi, Mitsubishi and Toyota to put wireless charging on electric cars, possibly as early as the 2015 model year. WiTricity licenses technology, developed at M.I.T., to transfer power between a pair of copper coils resonating at the same electromagnetic frequency.
BMW is currently working on a new electric scooter and has given us a preview of it with the BMW C evolution near-production prototype. BMW has recognized a growing problem in city centers: growing traffic volume, rising energy costs and constantly increasingly stringent CO2 restrictions on vehicles. BMW sees these issues as challenges of the [...]
