How many electric cars will be sold in 2014?
Wondering what the year ahead holds for electric cars? New research has pinpointed just how much the market is likely to grow in the year ahead. According to Navigant Research's white paper "Elect...
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Formula E electric racing car makes public debut
The new star of the Formula E racing series—the Spark-Renault SRT_01E—made its first ever public demonstration on Monday to the excited crowds gathered in Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Sho...
Plug-in car sales boom on back of recovering car market
Registrations of plug-in cars and hybrid vehicles rose by more than a fifth in 2013 (20.5 per cent), as the overall market for new cars in the UK soared to their highest levels since pre-recession ...
BMW introduces technology to link up with public transport
You might think that the last thing a carmaker would want to encourage us to do is to seek out alternatives to driving our cars: however, BMW is actively encouraging its drivers to factor public tr...
Malaysian colleges to deliver specialist training in electric vehicles
The UK-based Institute of Motor Industry (IMI) is to provide training support to community colleges across Malaysia—after it signed an agreement with the country’s Ministry of Education—to help stu...
Is your EV tired of its tyres yet?
They’re round, black — or perhaps brown if you’re a mucky pup — and are the only thing between your car and the road ahead. Yet tyres (tires if you’re American) probably get more mistreatment than ...
UK cabinet ministers could switch to electric cars
The UK government could become the first in the world to see its Cabinet make a wholesale switch to electric cars, the Evening Standard reports. According to the London paper, ministers are keen ...
Relax, your EV can withstand Stormageddon
Before I launch headlong into today’s piece, I feel it’s in my duty to warn you, most sternly, that under no account should you drive through floods without first checking their depth and current. ...
Electric car vending machines revealed in China
The Chinese city of Hangzhou is demonstrating a new alternative to car ownership; a giant vending machine style parking lot, chocked full of electric cars, ready to rent. Operated by a company ca...
Latest news on Fisker sale
The sale of electric car maker Fisker Automotive continues to grab headlines after the company's creditors decided to oppose the sale of the company's assets to Hybrid Tech Holdings LLC. Creditors...
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