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Opel's extended business plan includes multiple electric vehicles

Opel Chief Executive Officer Nick Reilly has unloaded a sweeping new business plan that includes plenty of interesting little tidbits for green car aficionados. Of course we already know about the 2011 Opel/Vauxhall Ampera, the European version of the 2011 Chevrolet Volt, but Reilly says that there will be another extended-range electric vehicle in addition to the Ampera. Perhaps even more interesting is word that the automaker is also working on "introducing pure battery-electric vehicles in smaller-size segments." We've heard rumors ... Read more →

Ferrari: Hybrids not ready, electrics won't happen; V6 engine possible Jeremy Korzeniewski

It seems that Ferrari head Amedeo Felisa has plenty to talk about when it comes to the future of his legendary brand, and that includes alternatives to traditional fuel sources. Speaking to ...

Trexa announces surprisingly affordable base price for EV platform Domenick Yoney

Now that the initial excitement over the new Trexa electric vehicle (EV) platform has subsided somewhat, the start-up has decided to issue information that is typically a bit more sobering, the ...

Seriously off oil: Better Place's first electric vehicle demonstration center in Israel Sebastian Blanco

Better Place has been signing deals to install its battery swapping and electric vehicle recharging station network around the world, for example, in Denmark, Tokyo and Canada. Not everyone is a ...

Next Toyota concept previewed in patent filing? Jeremy Korzeniewski

It would seem that Toyota has an interesting and hitherto unknown concept vehicle up its sleeves, judging by a European patent that L'Automobile in France was somehow able to dig up. Despite our ...

Chicago Preview: Ford Transit Connect Electric and CNG-powered taxi van 10 hours ago on Autoblog Green

Ford's electric vehicle (EV) naming scheme is becoming clear: add the word "electric" to a vehicle's standard name and presto, you've got the name of your new EV. Example Number One: the Ford Focus Electric. Example Number Two: the Ford Transit Connect Electric, which will get its official North ...

Audi Super Bowl ad: what trikes did the Green Police ride? The T3 Series 1 day ago on Autoblog Green

Audi Green Police ad – Click above to watch video after the jump Now that the Super Bowl is over and the Audi Green Police commercial has aired without harm, one of the companies peripherally connected to the ad, T3 Motion, is proudly proclaiming their product's use by said police force. ...

Bright Automotive gets a visit from Obama Administration official 1 day ago on Autoblog Green

The chances that Bright Automotive will get $450 million from the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing loan program (ATVMLP) might have gone up a bit thanks to a recent visit from a representative of the Obama Administrative. Teno Villarreal, special assistant for the Office of Recovery ...

California custom shop builds an electric Honda N360 1 day ago on Autoblog Green

Back in October at the Tokyo Motor Show, Honda unveiled an electric vehicle concept called the EV-N. The EV-N design was inspired by the tiny N360 of the 1960s. While the EV-N may or may not provide a preview of an upcoming electric city car from Honda, a little custom car shop in Santa Rosa, CA has ...

Video: Nicolas Prost wins first electric Andros Trophy 1 day ago on Autoblog Green

Andros Electric racing – Click above to watch video after the jump The first Andros Electric Trophy season has wrapped up and Nicolas Prost can lay claim to winning the first professional electric racing series ever held. His 250 points were 23 more than the nearest competitor after three ...

Chicago area gets first wind-powered electric vehicle charging station 1 day ago on Autoblog Green

As we get ready for the Chicago Auto Show next week, a note about what is apparently the first wind-powered electric vehicle charger in the continental U.S. caught our eye. The charger, installed by the Midwest distributor of Coulomb Technologies charging stations, Carbon Day Automotive, is located ...

Chicago preview: all-electric Ford Connect Transit will make an appearance 2 days ago on Autoblog Green

At the 2008 Chicago Auto Show, Ford unveiled its Transit Connect utility van for the U.S. market. In 2009, the company was back with the urban delivery vehicle, this time decorated for use by a variety of small businesses, and confirmed that a plug-in version would be coming to the U.S. At the ...

2011 Chevy Volt appears in order schedule, Job 1 November 1! 3 days ago on Autoblog Green

Up until now, General Motors has remained deliberately vague in public about the scheduled Job 1 date for Chevrolet Volt production. Given the complexity and new technology involved in the program, we certainly can't fault GM from wanting to get locked in until much closer to the appointed day. ...

Fisker Automotive moves Michigan jobs to California 3 days ago on Autoblog Green

In late 2008, Fisker Automotive opened an office in Pontiac, MI. At the time, COO Bernhard Koehler said in a statement that: The available talent, supplier base and infrastructure in Michigan will help us reach our production goal. While Fisker Automotive will continue to be headquartered in ...

Video: Volvo helping to develop new material that could be both battery and bodywork 3 days ago on Autoblog Green

Battery bodywork prototype material – Click above to watch video after the jump How much will a plug-in vehicle's battery weigh in 2020? How much will the same car's bodywork weigh? If a new prototype material developed by researchers in the Imperial College London in the UK turns out to be ...

British Columbia getting ambitious plug-in vehicle recharging network 4 days ago on Autoblog Green

British Columbia, especially the area around Vancouver, has been heavy into fuel cells thanks to local companies like Ballard (see: those Olympic fuel cell buses). Plug-in electric vehicles are getting noticed there, though, thanks to a push to bring in the Nissan Leaf and to mandate the ...

Video: Maui high school students complete second electric vehicle conversion 4 days ago on Autoblog Green

1995 Toyota Corolla EV – Click above to watch video after the jump A group of Hawaiian high school students has completed their second electric vehicle conversion in three years. Seabury Hall, a prep school on Maui, offers students the opportunity to participate in a number of classes that ...

Cover It Back Up: Protoscar Lampo 2 revealed ahead of Geneva 4 days ago on Autoblog Green

Last month, Swiss "CleanCar Shapers" (their term, not ours) Protoscar offered up a little teaser of its new Lampo 2 electric sportscar, which is headed for the Geneva Motor Show early next month. Now that we've got a whole series of images to gaze upon, we feel comfortable in saying that it's ...

AFS Trinity looking at Delaware to build "150 mpge" vehicles there 4 days ago on Autoblog Green

We've been over AFS Trinity's incredibly weird "150 miles per gallon" claim before, so let's not get into it here (especially since General Motors has since come out with their 230 mpg number for the Chevrolet Volt). What we have now is an announcement by the start-up automaker that it is ...

BYD e6 begins life as taxi on the streets of Shenzhen as shocking rumor surfaces 5 days ago on Autoblog Green

Now that BYD has permission to begin selling its all-electric E6 in China, it is wasting no time getting them out the factory door. If you want to take a ride in one, we suggest you travel to the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen and call a cab. It might take a few (dozen) tries but eventually, ...

Report: Jaguar builds all-electric XJ test vehicle 5 days ago on Autoblog Green

According to Autocar in the UK, Jaguar Land Rover is still hard at work on series hybrid vehicles. Similar to the stance General Motors has taken with the 2011 Chevrolet Volt, Jaguar believes that the only real way electric vehicles can be made compatible with everyday life is to add a small ...

Brazilian interns design new Volkswagen city car concept 5 days ago on Autoblog Green

We've been seeing small city car concepts from Volkswagen for years now, usually wearing some sort of Up! badging along with a promise of zero or nearly zero emissions. Apparently, a team of Brazilian interns for VW are fed Up! with all these similarly-named concepts, as they've taken it upon ...

Kia drops second hint about Ray PHEV concept 6 days ago on Autoblog Green

There won't be a lot of action at next week's Chicago Auto Show, so Kia is trying to amp up the energy level. The highlight of Kia's Chicago display will be a new plug-in hybrid concept called the Ray. We don't really know anything else about the car, but we're guessing it's based on the same ...

Right-hand-drive Tesla Roadsters ready to roll 6 days ago on Autoblog Green

If you consider yourself a right proper gent or madam in Britain or Ireland who has the means and desire to possess a Tesla Roadster, not being able to pop down to the London dealership and pick one out with right-hand-drive is no longer a reason to put off this pleasurable purchase. As you can ...

Is Chery designing an electric jeep for Better Place? 6 days ago on Autoblog Green

In reporting on a $350 million funding round for Better Place, we said that we doubted another automaker besides Nissan-Renault is building vehicles that would work with the company's battery-swapping system. Might a report in Globes prove us wrong? According to the Israeli business news site, ...

Zongshen signals intent to invest in Mission Motors 6 days ago on Autoblog Green

Powerhouse Chinese motorcycle manufacturer Zonghshen has signaled its intent to invest in California-based Mission Motors. At this point, nothing more than a letter of intent has been signed, but the deal would give Zongshen access to Mission's proprietary electric drivetrain technology as well ...

Toyota to test Prius PHEV in Oslo, Norway 6 days ago on Autoblog Green

With all the bad news about Toyota recently, it's about time for something a bit more positive. Toyota is in the process of deploying a fleet of several hundred plug-in Priuses in Japan, North America and Asia. Of the 200 Prius PHEVs destined for Europe, two are headed for the Norwegian capital ...

Tesla hires new manufacturing lead, but there's more 6 days ago on Autoblog Green

With the news that Tesla Motors will soon go public, there's been a lot of scrutiny of and discussion about the company's future plans. On the corporate side, that involves things like former Toyota production engineering general manager Gilbert Passin joining the company as leader of Tesla's ...

GSA approves Smith Electric Vehicles for U.S. government agency purchases 6 days ago on Autoblog Green

Now that Smith Electric Vehicles is assembling its Newton electric truck here in the United States, it needs to line up some customers for them. A big potential pool has opened up with U.S. government agencies and the military thanks to a decision by the General Services Administration (GSA). ...

Lithium-ion battery supplier Axeon will make new pack for C1 Ev'ie 6 days ago on Autoblog Green

The converted Citroën C1 Ev'ie will someday get a better battery thanks to Axeon, Europe's largest independent lithium-ion battery systems supplier. The current C1 Ev'ie, offered by the Electric Car Corporation, has been available since last April and has a range of more than 60 miles and a ...

Nissan and Orlando, Florida team up on electric vehicle infrastructure promotion 6 days ago on Autoblog Green

2010 Nissan Leaf – Click above for high-res image gallery It seems like cities all over America want to participate in the upcoming Nissan electric vehicle party. The latest locale to plug in to the program is Orlando, FL, home of more theme parks than you can shake a stick at. The ...

Video: GM shows us how the 2011 Chevrolet Volt works 7 days ago on Autoblog Green

Modern cars and trucks are nothing if not complicated pieces of machinery, and that's doubly true of hybrid vehicles. You can bet that the 2011 Chevrolet Volt will set a new standard in high-tech gadgetry and computing tech on four wheels, so it's not terribly surprising that General Motors has ...

Brammo Enertia going kung fu fighting? 7 days ago on Autoblog Green

The Brammo Enertia has attempted a few things no other electric motorcycle ever has. It's turned the traditional sales model on its head by way of gaining distribution through the electronics retailer Best Buy rather than motorcycle shops. It's gone on a lengthy road trip in a quest to reach an ...

Making money on the Chevy Volt won't be easy, should the Feds boost support? 7 days ago on Autoblog Green

How much influence should the government have when setting out a path for more fuel efficient vehicles? It's a question that has been debated at length on these very pages already, and it's an issue that seems likely to generate plenty of discussion in the coming years. For instance, is the ...

Project Evie getting ready to go 'round the world in an electric car 7 days ago on Autoblog Green

How far can an electric car go? Project Evie thinks you can take one around the world. To that end, the small group of young electric vehicle (EV) enthusiasts has partnered with an unnamed large automaker to drive one of their EVs around the world. Yup, it's time to circumnavigate in an official ...

Reading murky tea leaves about Tesla Motors' future and IPO 7 days ago on Autoblog Green

The connection between Tesla Motors and Daimler is certainly electric. Tesla supplied the batteries for the Smart Ed and Daimler invested about $50 million in Tesla. Now that Tesla has announced its plan to go public, analysts are taking a second look at the electric car start up and are trying ...

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