Electric Car Blogging

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, UK
Click above for more images of Top Gear’s crashed G-Wiz
Top Gear has never been kind to the G-Wiz, that electric Quadricycle that’s only available across the pond in Europe. In this video, Jeremy Clarkson – star of the U.K. Top Gear shows – definitively proves that a table is a better, faster [...] [...]

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Manufacturing/Plants, Tesla Motors

Tesla’s SVP of marketing Darryl Siry has been on another sales tour of Europe filling in the magazines over there on the company’s future product plans. For the most part there was nothing new that we haven’t already reported on here over the past year. The upcoming Model S (formerly [...] [...]

Filed under: Hybrids/Alternative, Green
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A legal loophole lies behind the current generation of three-wheeled vehicles and has led to a few important questions: Are they legal? Should they be? Answers to these questions will be coming as legislators and companies work things out, but we can certainly answer today whether this customized [...] [...]

Filed under: Hybrids/Alternative, Green, Videos, Paris Motor Show, Chevrolet
Click above to watch a video with slides of the production Chevy Volt
We got our first sneak peek at the production Chevy Volt last week, but a recent presentation by Bob Boniface, director of design for the Volt, has revealed a bit more. We’ve pasted a video [...] [...]

Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrids/Alternative, Sedans/Saloons, Wagons/Estates, Green, Volkswagen

Lovers of both fuel mileage and torque can finally rest easy; Volkswagen of America is now officially selling its 50-State-approved, clean diesel engine in either the Jetta sedan for ,990 or Jetta SportWagen wrappers for ,590. Equipped with the six-speed DSG transmission, both Jetta gets an EPA [...] [...]