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Back in April we brought you news that BMW’s first full production (sadly the Mini E was just an experiment) electric car—the Megacity—will be hitting the market in 2013. The car will make extensive use of carbon fiber to decrease weight and increase structural rigidity. BMW also said it would be of a striking design, [...]
After an introducion at last year’s Frankfurt Auto Show, Volkswagen gave strong hints that their cute and modern E-Up! minicar would see production by 2013. There was no word on how much it would cost or where, exactly, it would be sold, but the reactions to the car were solid enough that it seemed like [...]
GM CEO Ed Whitacre is speaking live at an event in Austin, TX, right now, following a week of Chevy Volt testing in the, uh, rather different Texas community… well, different from the rest of Texas anyway. After that, Volt Marketing Director Tony DiSalle will be taking your typed questions about the Volt’s roll out [...]
The first day of trading for the first American auto manufacturer to go public since Ford did in 1956 ended with a bang. After selling 13.3 million shares at 17 bucks a pop for a $226 million haul, Tesla’s stock surged steadily over the day to close up more than 40% at $23.89 per share. [...]
HybridCars.com is claiming exclusive access to information that has, to this point, been left to the wild rumors of the internet: The Chevy Volt’s engine may actually directly power the car’s wheels during some kinds of driving. If this is true, it would be big news for a car and a company that, up ’til [...]
Last September, when the US Department of Energy announced Fisker would be getting a half billion dollars in stimulus loans to bring their vision of a plug-in future to reality, both DOE and Fisker said that the company’s first electric car — the plug-in hybrid Karma supercar — would be hitting showrooms this summer. But [...]
Nissan has gone and produced a short video highlighting the various test drivers’ experiences with the LEAF over the course of last week’s global test drive. I was one of the five Americans invited to Japan, and, as I’ve already written, was extremely impressed with the LEAF.
As a result of the surprising success of the Honda CR-Z in Japan (and, let’s be honest, it is surprising) two long-since-thought-dead Toyota sport hybrid projects — the FT-HS concept and a revamped MR2 successor — are apparently back on the table… at least according to Autocar.
