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VIDEO: Larry Nitz talks about the plug-in Saturn Vue hybrid

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, GM, Saturn During the recent Plug-in conference in San Jose CA, Matt Kelly of GMNext talked with Larry Nitz about the new PHEV version of the Saturn Vue. The PHEV Vue is still at least a year away and is based on the Two-Mode Vue that comes out late this year. The [...] [...]

Ener1: Lithium ion battery prices may be cut in half

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, USA Just the other day we were asking ourselves if the price of the most expensive component of electric cars, the lithium ion batteries, will ever come down. As if to answer our query Charles Gassenheimer, Chief Executive over at battery maker Ener1, has come back with the answer we hoped to hear. [...] [...]

Detroit Electric turns to Europe for investment, technology

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Zap We remember when Zap revived the name Detroit Electric, a classic, last year but the details haven’t been coming very fast and furious since then. Zap announced late last week that the U.S.-Chinese partnership (with China Youngman Automobile Group) is now headed over the Atlantic to find both money and tech help. [...] [...]

is why Tesla brought the Roadsters to Europe

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Tesla Motors, European Union Click on the Tesla Roadster for a high-res gallery OK, so if you were wondering what could be gained by schlepping a batch of Tesla Roadsters across the pond, I have your answer: convincing European automotive journalists that EVs are wicked cool. Take, for example, the feelings of Guido Reinking, the [...] [...]

Apartment block gets "in house" car sharing

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Transportation Alternatives, UK Residents of Radnor Park in Clydebank, Scotland have a new transportation alternative in the form of three new cars to share amongst themselves. And although the car-sharing arrangement does require them to pay a fee of £5 for a day’s worth of car time, they won’t need to worry [...] [...]

Electric scooter concept badged as a Nissan

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Nissan, On Two Wheels Click above for more shots of the Nissan Mori concept scooter Who cares if Nissan doesn’t make two-wheeled scooters? In the world of concept designs, anything goes. A designer by the name of Shane Crozier has gone ahead and imagined what a scooter by Nissan that was inspired by a [...] [...]

Watch out for Sand People: Electric Landspeeder replica

Filed under: Etc., EV/Plug-in, NEV (Neighborhood Electric Vehicle) Click above for more photos of Daniel Deutsch’s landspeeder If NEVs were this awesome, there’d be one in every garage. Daniel Deutsch is a 20-year veteran builder for the entertainment industry. In addition to a perfect R2-D2, he’s created this full-scale, fully-functional replica of Luke Skywalker’s battered XP-34 landspeeder. [...] [...]

Fleet tests of plug-in Prius moved up to early 2009, no retail timetable yet

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Toyota Toyota President, Katsuaki Watanabe this week announced that the start of fleet testing for plug-in capable Priuses had been moved up by a year. At this year’s Detroit Auto Show, Watanabe announced that several hundred Priuses with the ability to be plugged in would be delivered to government and commercial fleets [...] [...]