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Toyota to commercialize solid-state batteries by 2020

Toyota aims to commercialize solid-state batteries around 2020 and lithium air batteries several years later, as successors to today's lithium ion batteries. The solid-state batteries will be three...

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Chevy Volt leads Plug-in EV Global Sales Race

GM's Chevrolet Volt and Toyota's plug-in Prius outsold Nissan's Leaf globally in 2012. Deliveries of the Volt more than tripled to 30,090 units in 2012, the top seller among vehicles that need to...

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Mahindra Reva scheduled to launch E20 March 18th

Mahindra Reva, a part of 15.9 billion dollars Mahindra Group is on its way to launch its next generation electric vehicle in the Indian domestic market. Reva is the first Indian company that had...

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FIA Announce 8 city 2014 Formula E electric street races.

Formula E presented motorsports governing body FIA with a preliminary list of eight cities that have been picked to host races next year. Cities included in the preliminary calendar are: London,...

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Next Evolution Honda NSX Concept Debuts in Europe [VIDEO]

Honda presents the new Honda NSX Concept for the first time in Europe, highlighting the design and technology direction for the next-generation supercar. The dynamically-styled NSX Concept gives an...

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Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf Sales Expected to Increase in 2013

For the month of February, Chevy Volt sales were up almost 60 percent year-over-year, rising from 1,023 in February 2012 to 1,626 last month. Nissan’s figures weren’t as impressive in comparison, at...

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GM Working on 200-Mile Range Electric Car

General Motors is working on developing an electric car that has as much as 200 miles (322 kilometers) range, Chief Executive Officer Dan Akerson said. “There will be breakthroughs in battery...

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Audi diesel-electric plug-in hybrid hypercar under evaluation

Audi is poised to outline its plans to launch a Le Mans-inspired road car at the Frankfurt motor show in September. Audi technical chief Wolfgang Dürheimer said that the proposed Audi hypercar was...

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Audi A3 Sportback e-tron plug-in parallel hybrid

Audi is working intently to electrify the drivetrain using plug-in hybrid technology. The brand with the four rings is showing the Audi A3 Sportback e-tron at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show. With 150 kW...

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2013 Mitsubishi Concept CA-MiEV

The Concept CA-MiEV concept car gives an indication of the direction MMC (which launched its i-MiEV in 2009), believes EVs will take in the near future. The system is fitted with a 28 kWh Li-ion...

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Ferrari unveils fastest-ever electric hybrid supercar [VIDEO]

Ferrari has revealed its first ever hybrid at the 2013 Geneva motor show, and it's called LaFerrari. The new car is powered by a 950bhp petrol-electric hybrid drivetrain. It can accelerate from...

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Mitsubishi unveil 300 km Range CA-MiEV Concept

Mitsubishi has recently pulled the wraps off one of its latest creations, the CA-MiEV Concept, ahead of the model’s official debut scheduled for the 2013 Geneva Motor Show. According to the car...

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Volkswagen Unveils E-Co-Motion Delivery Van Concept

At next week's Geneva International Motor Show, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles will be showing a transporter concept vehicle: the e-Co-Motion. Despite its large cargo capacity it is compact and...

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Google: 90% of Cars Could be EVs and Hybrids By 2030

Electric, plug-in and hybrid vehicles could garner a collective 90 percent market share by 2030, and grid-scale electricity storage could actually increase emissions in the short term, according to...

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Toyota Prius Tops New Vehicle Sales in California for 2012

Toyota’s Prius-badged vehicles proved to be the most popular new vehicles with California drivers during the 2012 calendar year. According to R.L Polk, the Prius family cars (Prius Liftback, Prius...

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