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CEO Winterkorn: expect first VW electric vehicle in 2013
2007 Volkswagen Space up! Blue concept - click above for high res image gallery Volkswagen CEO Dr. Martin Winterkorn delivered a speech in Münich on Friday where he announced that the German giant would release its first electric car in 2013. Among the points that Winterkorn emphasized was the race to electrification would be a marathon not a sprint. He also acknowledged that electrics alone won't be enough to meet all needs so VW is following a number of different technology paths. Winterkorn also warns against "electro-hype" which ... Read more →
Renault-Nissan will lead charge to bring electric vehicles to Netherlands Sebastian Blanco
Nissan EV-02 prototype - click above for high res image gallery The widespread electric vehicle work done by the Renault-Nissan Alliance will make its way to the Netherlands soon now that the ...
Barefoot Motors officially opens doors for business Jeremy Korzeniewski
Having just recently returned home from the TTXGP at the Isle of Man, where its race bike managed a very respectable second-place finish in its class, Barefoot Motors has officially opened its doors. ...
Henrik Fisker distances his company from Tesla, GM Jeremy Korzeniewski
Fisker Karma - Click above for high-res image gallery Considering the two fledgling automaker's past history, it's not terribly surprising that Henrik Fisker would want to distance his company ...
BMW building more MINI Es for European testing Sam Abuelsamid
MINI E - click above for high-res image gallery The popularity of BMW's MINI E test program in the United States has evidently prompted the company to expand production beyond the original 500 ...
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Quicc! Diva wins "Car of the Future" 1 day ago on AutoblogGreen
DuraCar Quicc! Diva - Click above for high-res image gallery The Dutch website dedicated to electric and hybrid automobiles, ZERAuto, has been conducting a poll, asking its visitors to rank their favorite ride and offering 12 very nice entrants to choose from. Perhaps not surprisingly, the ...
Chrysler pushing to dramatically cut GEM dealer network 1 day ago on AutoblogGreen
GEM Peapod - Click above for high-res image gallery Chrysler has made a big deal in the past about its long history selling GEM electric cars, and there are tens of thousands of them on the roads today. Of course, the EVs that Chrysler has been selling since 2000 (when DaimlerChrysler purchased ...
Elektrobay charging stations will power EVs at Goodwood Festival of Speed 1 day ago on AutoblogGreen
The Goodwood Festival of Speed is taking place this weekend in the UK and electric vehicles will again be represented. Last year, a Tesla Roadster made its debut in the hillclimb race and this year there will be 13 electrics on hand. Elektromotive will be trying to ensure that they stay in running ...
Lightning Car Company plans three more electric cars 1 day ago on AutoblogGreen
Lightning Car Company GT - Click above for high-res image gallery Back in February, the UK-based Lightning Car Company announced that it still intends to begin building and selling its Lightning GT by 2010. The £120,000 electric sportscar will be powered by one 120kW electric motor per ...
Grid Manager: Plug-in autos are OK if charged overnight or else 2 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Plug-in hybrids are a hot topic right now. But there are many who question if our electric grid will be able to support a massive influx of EVs and plug-in hybrids? Those who know often say "yes," "yes" and "yes" again. We can now add Stephen Whitley, president of the New York Independent System ...
Korean e-Zone electric car to be manufactured in Southeast U.S.? 2 days ago on AutoblogGreen
e-Zone Electric Vehicle - Click above to enlarge If any car screams "Alabama!" it's the e-Zone electric car pictured above, right? The quirky low speed vehicle is a project of CT&T Co. Ltd, a South Korean company, and might be built in the Heart of Dixie in the next few years. CT&T wants ...
Plug In America criticizes CARB loophole that could help BMW with its MINI E 3 days ago on AutoblogGreen
MINI E - click above for high-res image gallery BMW has gotten a lot of press (some bad) for their MINI E project. Even though the all-electric car comes with a plug, the plug-in advocacy group Plug In America (PIA) has a problem with the way that the Bavarians might be able to get a lot of ...
Tomberlin releases Anvil NEV [w/VIDEO] 3 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Tomberlin Anvil NEV - Click above for image gallery Tomberlin, a manufacturing and distribution company based in Georgia, recently unveiled the Anvil, its latest low-speed electric vehicle, on the CBS News Early Show. As a neighborhood electric vehicle, the Anvil is capped at a top speed of 25 ...
Renault shows off the Kangoo Be Bop Z. E. in three new videos 3 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Kangoo be bop Z.E. - Click above for high-res image gallery If you count yourself as a fan of the shortened Kangoo that will become the be bod Z.E., Renault's first widely available electric vehicle, this post is for you. On the other side of the jump you'll find three videos that show the car ...
Columnist: Plug-in cars are the new ethanol-style boondoggle 3 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Peapod - click above for high-res image gallery The amount of money that the U.S. federal government poured into corn ethanol is legendary. Today, we're left with a floundering ethanol economy and a few happy corn farmers but not an abundance of the biofuel powering the nation's cars. A ...
T3 Motion introduces three-wheeled CT3 personal commuter, plans to enter Auto X Prize 3 days ago on AutoblogGreen
T3 Motion CT3 - Click above to enlarge T3 Motion, creators of the Segway-esque non-balancing T3 Series Electric Stand-up Vehicle for police and security use, has just issued a press release detailing its plans to launch a new three-wheeled electric vehicle called the CT3. The new vehicle is the ...
Toyota will continue focusing on "clean halo" hybrids, not EVs or diesels 3 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Toyota FT-EV concept - Click above for high-res image gallery It's not terribly surprising that Toyota – the automaker often credited for creating the first modern mainstream hybrid automobile – would seek to continue establishing its marketplace dominance in hybrid automobiles. The ...
Elon Musk: Daimler's "golden handcuffs" mean I'll stay with Tesla through Model S launch 3 days ago on AutoblogGreen
For a guy who allegedly wants a lot of the credit for creating Tesla Motors, Elon Musk certainly doesn't seem to like the job of being its CEO. As part of Daimler's investment deal with Tesla, Musk needed to commit to staying on as Tesla's CEO at least until the Model S launches in 2011. Musk told ...
Ford could electrify 10-25 percent of its fleet by 2020 3 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Ford Escape PHEV - Click above for high-res image gallery With Ford taking on a $5.9 billion loan from the DOE and President Obama in favor of a million plug-in vehicles by 2015, how might the money help Ford put plugs on upcoming vehicles. Ford was quite clear that the DOE money will be used to ...
Porsche R&D says electric 911 possible, needs more development 3 days ago on AutoblogGreen
eRuf Greenster - Click above for high-res image gallery In an interview with the German magazine Motor Zeitung, Porsche's R&D director Wolfgang Dürheimer discussed the possibility of electrification of the iconic 911 sports car. Legendary Porsche tuners Ruf first showed a prototype ...
Columnist: electric vehicle hype needs to be tempered 4 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Coda sedan - Click above for high-res image gallery Is the Detroit News becoming a home for anti-electric vehicle advocates? Last week, the News published a mostly confusing article by Manny Lopez that criticized the DOE loan that Tesla received. Another column, this one by Neil Winton, is ...
Renault working with Arval, ALP on electric vehicle pricing, leasing structure 4 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Kangoo be bop Z.E. - Click above for high-res image gallery With Renault reportedly bringing three new electric vehicles to the Frankfort Motor Show this fall and the company's regular announcements of EV partnerships, word of two new deals - one with Arval and the other with ALD Automotive - ...
In the future, we'll all be driving electric ... shopping carts? 4 days ago on AutoblogGreen
LOLrioKart - Click above to watch the video after the break Why waste a perfectly good used shopping cart when it can be recycled into something fun? Seeking to definitively answer that question is a twenty-year-old MIT student named Charles Guan who normally spends his free time building ...
GM: Volt to be sportier alternative to Prius and Insight 5 days ago on AutoblogGreen
2011 Chevy Volt - Click above for high res image gallery Now that the Chevrolet Volt has progressed to the point where vehicles with production-looking bodywork are running around the automaker's testing grounds in Warren, Michigan, the time has come for the crew to begin ironing out details ...
Renault to offer test drives in Be Bop Z.E. electric vehicle 5 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Renault Be Bop Z.E. - Click above for high res image gallery Renault is planning to release its first production electric vehicles in early 2011, but drivers around Europe will soon get a chance to try out electric "motoring" with the be bop Z.E. Renault showed off a concept electric version of ...
Pics aplenty: Mercedes-Benz BlueZERO concept 5 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Mercedes-Benz concept BlueZero - Click above for high-res image gallery Without an accompanying announcement about any changes to the status of the Mercedes-Benz Concept BlueZERO, Daimler today released a bunch of new pictures of the hydrogen/gas-electric hybrid/pure electric concept car. The ...
REPORT: Scion iQ headed for America by early 2011 with a few changes 5 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Scion iQ Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery As expected, Toyota's youthful Scion division will indeed get a version of the diminutive iQ for the North American market, possibly by either the end of 2010 as an '11 model or in early 2011 as a '12 model. According to Motor ...
Is XP Vehicles' inflatable car just a lot of hot air? 5 days ago on AutoblogGreen
It's has been a while since we heard any news about the inflatable car from XP Vehicles but it seems they are still out there and still planning to take the auto industry by storm. Freshly featured on the cover of Product Design & Development (PDD), the concept vehicle that doesn't employ ...
Former Tesla marketing chief headed to Coda Automotive? 5 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Coda sedan - Click above for high-res image gallery Could it be that the former head of marketing and communications at Tesla Motors is heading over to a similar position at the company formerly known as Miles Automotive's new Coda Automotive brand? If 2 + 2 still equals 4 then we're pretty ...
Contrary to reports, second generation Chevy Volt is already under development 5 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Chevrolet Volt Integration prototype - click above for high res image gallery When automakers are getting a new vehicle ready for production, the main specifications are generally locked down about 18-24 months before production starts. After that point, validation testing and calibration ...
David Vespremi on Tesla's relevance in bringing EVs to the masses 6 days ago on AutoblogGreen
While things have been quiet on the official legal front in the battle for recognition between Martin Eberhard and Elon Musk, some of the bystanders in the saga are continuing to come forward with their takes of the story. Earlier this week we heard from Tesla's former SVP for marketing Darryl Siry ...
Madison Gas & Electric to install EV charging network 6 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Madison, Wisconsin is a fairly typical college town, a place with a fairly substantial population of people with progressive attitudes on many issues. That means it has more people who ride bikes, take the bus, walk and drive hybrids than some other surrounding areas. It's also easier to find ...
Underwriters Laboratories approves SAE J1772 charging plug 6 days ago on AutoblogGreen
The SAE standard J1772 charging connector for plug-in vehicles passed another threshold on its way to finalization this week. Underwriters Laboratories has completed its certification testing on the connector developed by Yazaki. The UL testing has verified the safety and durability characteristics ...
Mulally: Ford's path to profitability based on electrification 7 days ago on AutoblogGreen
2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid - Click above for high-res image gallery Ford CEO Alan Mulally says the automaker is on track to return to profitability by 2011, despite posting a record $14.7 billion loss in 2008 and a forecast to continue posting losses through the rest of 2009 and 2010. A major ...
More on the Maya 300, the new $35,000 NEV 8 days ago on AutoblogGreen
The Maya 300 was unveiled this week and we can now get a better handle on the new all-electric vehicle that is put together by Electrovaya (with a bit of help from ExxonMobil in the battery) and will be used in a new car sharing project in Baltimore. While we heard some price ranges for the car at ...
Back in time: a gallery of BMW's electric car prototypes through the years 8 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Historic BMW Electric Vehicles - Click for high-res image gallery Although the closest thing you can get to an electric car at BMW these days is one with Start & Stop technology, a hybrid (in the near future) or, if you're lucky, the Mini E, BMW has a long history of developing electric ...
