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BMW CEO confirms city car with electric option

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, BMW From user omolody on Flickr. We’ve heard consistent rumors since last year that BMW was considering entering the tiny car market with a new electric car. This entire time, BMW was to decide on the fate of the city EV by the end of the year, and it seems that they have. BMW [...] [...]

RoboScooter still a go, could cost less than $2K

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, On Two Wheels, Asia At the beginning of this year, we first reported on the RoboScooter, which at that time was still a concept. The two-wheeler was designed through a collaboration of three companies including SYM, the second largest scooter manufacturer in Taiwan and a highly reputable company. According to recent reports, SYM [...] [...]

EDTA prez talks to the Senate about electric cars next week

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hydrogen, Legislation and Policy, USA Part of the Electric Drive Transportation Association’s (EDTA) reason for being is to convince lawmakers to support electric-drive vehicles. That’s what those May radio spots were about and that’s what EDTA president Brian Wynne will be doing next week when he testifies before the Senate Energy and Natural [...] [...]

Bolwell interested in electric Nagari supercar

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Pacific Region Click above for larger shots of the Bolwell Nagari Now that Tesla has tested the waters, some other not-as-well known companies have announced that they, too, would like to explore the electric supercar waters. Bolwell, makers of the Nagari revival in Australia, are the latest to throw their names into the ring. [...] [...]

Honda and Yamaha to make electric motorcycles

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Honda, On Two Wheels, Japan “Make hay while the sun shines ‘cuz we’re on our way and we’re bringing some serious rain,” is the message Honda and Yamaha are sending to the new electric motorcycle companies that have been springing up like daisies. Only one of the two long-established Japanese brands has shown [...] [...]

Chrysler’s Jim Press making big claims for upcoming EVs

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep Click the Dodge Zeo for a high-res gallery Chrysler’s co-president continued to talk up his employer’s plans for electrically-driven vehicles this week at a media luncheon in California. Press told the gathering that he had driven three different producible prototypes of plug-in hybrid vehicles recently. The vehicles have been developed [...] [...]

GM confirms plans to sell ER-EVs in Europe in 2011, 50 Volt prototypes this fall

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Chevrolet click for a gallery of images of the production Chevy Volt GM Europe president Carl-Peter Forster said again this week that the company would launch E-Flex-based extended range EVs on the European market in 2011, about a year behind the Volt launch in North America. In his remarks, Forster referred to both [...] [...]

Lexus returning to Targa Newfoundland with GS 450h

Filed under: Motorsports, Hybrids/Alternative, Sedans/Saloons, Green, Lexus, Canada At last year’s Targa Newfoundland, driver Mark Lachapelle brought his Lexus GS 450h — yeah, that’s a hybrid — home 18th overall, and sixth in his division. This year he’ll return to the 2,200-kilometer race which runs over six days through the central and eastern part of the [...] [...]