Electric Car News

Instead of chasing pie in the sky, the U.S. Department of Energy has outlined a brand new investment stragey favouring green transportation technologies that have already shown potential.
In its “Inaugural Quadrennial Technology Review Report” the Department of Energy summarised six key strategies, three of which directly pertains to green transportation. The main weight will be put upon increasing vehicle efficiency. It is by far the cheapest and most widely available improvement that can be implemented by almost any

You will have noticed that the manufacturers of electric cars have stuck with the standard 100-mile range even when announcing year 2013 models. After several cars were outed as having promised more than they can deliver, the manufacturers are cautious when publishing the specs.
It’s all because the breakthrough in electric car batteries that we’ve been waiting for, has never happened.
The amount of Li-ion batteries that electric cars can take on board is strictly limited by both weight and size.
A UK-based company Axeon has decided to go one step better. Although …

You may remember, we looked at the Audi Urban Concept a short while ago.
Now, there’s an unexpected move from the Volkswagen mothership – to come up with an almost identical concept, rebranded VW Nils.
You can clearly see that both cars have been created by

It was just reported by the Wall Street Journal that the British commercial electric car maker Smith Electric Vehicles has found another customer. This time going green is Duane Reade – a large New York based pharmacy retaler with many branches.
At this stage it is still unclear how many Smith Newton electric vehicles will Duane Reade add to their delivery fleet. They’re not looking to completely replace the conventional vehicles but apparently this is a move to explore the possibilities of an electric fleet and try to go

Whenever they mention Siemens, it gives me a bit of a nostalgia. I’ve been using their mobile phones for years and it made me sad when they stopped. Nevertheless, they’ve always been know as the guys with their fingers in many pies. Now to add to their impressive list of inventions and involvements, they’ve branched into drives for electric cars.
Siemens and Volvo have opted for a partnership aiming at developing electric drive technology and charging devices