Shell’s Ecomarathon returns this week, with more than 3,000 students set to take part in the competition to see how far they can travel on one litre of fuel (or 1kWh). This year, the event which ...
Nissan is pinning its hopes on rising interest in electric vehicles in China, where the carmaker is reported to be aiming to win fifth of EV sales by 2018. According to Bloomberg, Nissan expects ...
There have been many critics of the US’s comparatively slow approach to addressing environmental concerns – however, no such cloud can be cast over the efforts of California which has proven to be ...
Toyota is expected to let its supply agreement with Tesla to expire this year, with no plans for renewal, as the carmaker fixes its gaze firmly on hydrogen fuel cell cars. That would spell the en...
A fleet of fuel cell vehicles has just passed the landmark of three million miles of hydrogen-powered real-world driving, thanks to GM. The car giant’s fleet of 119 test vehicles, which make up i...
Formula One is changing and for the Mercedes-Benz team it starts with a switch from the word ‘engine’ to ‘power unit’ in describing the drivetrain of its PU106A Hybrid. That’s because its new rac...
Do you take risks in your electric car? By that, I mean do you take risks when it comes to how far you’re happy driving before you run out of power? In three weeks’ time, I’ll be sitting in my Ni...
Big hybrids; you would expect that they would be the perfect compromise for American consumers, offering a winning mix of the size US citizens are known to crave, with improved fuel economy that ri...
More than 37,000 fares have made use of the country’s first electric minicab firm, allowing St Austell-based C&C Taxis to clock up no less than 150,000 miles all-electric miles. The Cornish firm ...
Sales of fully electric vehicles have soared in the year so far, more than tripling in the first four months of the year compared to the same period of 2013, from 446 to 1,547 sold in the UK. EV ...