This is the Peraves E-Tracer. It looks like a drop tank from a P-61, is powered by an electric motor and has outrigger wheels. It is also entering the Automotive X-Prize, and thinks that it has a real shot at winning the thing. They just might be right. It’s light enough and efficient enough right [...]
Getting consumers to try something new, and something that they might be wary about is always a difficult hurdle to overcome. It is especially difficult to overcome if what you’re trying to get consumers to buy costs in the tens of thousands of dollars and might leave them stranded by the side of the road.
This [...]
Well how cool is this? The British government will be funding research into using jet turbines as onboard generators for electric vehicles. The U.K.’s Technology Strategy Board awarded $1.8 million in funding to Jaguar-Land Rover, Bladon Jets and SR Drives. The turbine-based range extender will use a small jet turbine capable of burning a wide [...]
0 Emissions, 5 Passengers, 90 MPH Top Speed, 100 Mile Range, 2010 Launch
That’s Nissan’s marketing slogan for their new fully-electric, zero emission LEAF, which is being promised delivery some time later this year. Nissan is currently on a 22 city tour to show off the car, and invited current Nissan owners to come take a [...]
Looks like someone is trying to be different. With seemingly every car manufacturer out there making some sort of hybrid, or announcing plans to offer one in the near future, Porsche is bucking the trend. Ferrari has a hybrid version of their 599 coming out at Geneva this March, but Porsche has said no way [...]
General Motors has announced that it will design and build its own electric motors within two years. This can easily be seen as GM taking the need for electric cars seriously. The General plans to devote $246 million to a factory that will produce the electric motors by 2013.
Making its own electric motors [...]
Back in 2009, BMW started talking about developing some electric cars based on current models and showed off a few technologies, much like nearly every other manufacturer on the market today. In May, they actually did something about it. On May 28, 2009, the first fully electric MINI E was delivered to its owner (well, [...]
Looks like Audi is following Mercedes lead and will be getting into the luxury hybrid game – that is, if the Audi A8 Hybrid show car that will be seen in Geneva makes it to production.
In a lot of ways, making hybrids for the well healed instead of the masses makes more sense. The rich [...]
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