Electric Car News

This year’s Detroit Motor Show has seen twenty-seven new vehicle introductions and ten of them are green. There’s a strong emphasis on hybrids this year and very few electric cars have been presented.
Acura ILX
That’s how the Honda’s new luxury sedan will look in America. It is not developed specifically as a hybrid – the performance versions will feature just a 2.0 or 2.4-litre petrol engine, however, there will be a 1.5-litre hybrid car version available.
 
 
 
 
 
BMW ActiveHybrid 5
This sleek and modern hybrid vehicle will reach the dealerships in just a few …

Making cars lose weight is another great option for the manufacturers to go green. Thanks to new materials, building lighter cars doesn’t have to compromise on safety. Mercedes E-Class Superlight, will hit the road in 2015.
As the name indicates, the focus of interest will be represented by its very low weight, some 700lbs will be lost compared to the current E-Class. Such a significant weight reduction will be possible only through

When it comes to green engines, BMW and General Motors have collaborated in the past. It has left the path open to a new series of negotiations. These have already begun, according to a German newspaper, but the object of the agreement potentially signed by GM and BMW may be represented by developing a new generation of engines based on fuel cells.
After BMW X6 ActiveHybrid and Cadillac Escalade Hybrid have appeared on the market as a result of joint development of hybrid technology installed on the two models, the special

It was only yesterday that the new Low Emission Zone kicked in to rid London of old smokey diesel trucks. It’s all good, only it leaves us with an unanswered question – what’s the future for the green commercial vehicles?
The California-based Electric Vehicles International has developed the EVI-REEV truck to showcase the possibilities that hybrid technology can offer the medium commercial vehicle sector (which, is huge, to say the least). The REEV, created in partnership with the California Energy Commission, can do 45 miles in all-electric mode and when the …

Now that Renault has sold its first electric car to a retail customer, they’ve announced that they’re officially launching a specialised electric car dealer network. On December 20, a Renault Kangoo Van Z.E. was sold to a professional printer Patrick Chard of Milton Keynes.
Although Renault has got many large and small dealerships across the UK, it was decided to concentrate on a limited but well-spread-out dealer network incorporating 21 branches.