According to Business Week magazine, Renault-Nissan’s CEO Carlos Ghosn said that his company has 56,000 orders for the Leaf in the United States. The car will be available late this year, and Ghosn said that real mass production will start in 2012, when the alliance plans to have capacity to 500,000 electronic vehicles in Japan, [...]

McGill University has been running its electric snowmobile through the paces doing everything from collecting snow samples in Greenland’s “no-emissions zone” to working at the FSI World Alpine Ski Championship. Just recently, however, it performed its highest profile gig to sate as it carried an Olympic torch bearer on the road between Vancouver and Whistler, [...]

Nissan just announced that their highly anticipate Nissan Leaf electric vehicle will be available to order this August and will be in driveways by December.
Nissan has been touting the affordability of the Leaf since it was announced. They currently refer to it as “the world’s first all-electric, zero-emission car designed for the mass market.”
The Nissan [...]

The electric car that put Tesla on the map and gave the electric car movement a shot in the arm when it needed it, is getting the plug pulled on it barely after it was plugged-in, so to speak.
As Tesla Motors goes public for the first time, a disturbing bit of info has come out [...]

The Chevy Volt will become available to Californians late 2010. The launch project will act as a demonstration of market readiness for the Volt and other electric vehicles. Pacific Gas and Electric, Southern California Edison and Sacramento Municipal Utility District are all partnering with Chevy on the launch. The auto company is [...]

Oh electric cars, how I love thee. It’s not enough that you cut carbon emissions, noise pollution and reliance on oil and all that entails, but you may even reduce road rage?
BMC Physiology recently published a study that saw rats exposed to gasoline fumes for six weeks for periods of 30 minutes per day. The [...]

Harvard-Westlake middle school in L.A. will be getting a lesson in electric vehicles on November 30th, as GM will be doing a presentation on the inner workings of the 2011 Chevy Volt (pictured above).
The presentation, which will also be broadcast on the web, will examine the basic principles behind electric cars like the Volt, and [...]

Nissan recently showcased several new electric vehicles at the opening of its new global headquarters in Yokohama. Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn, thinks that the Leaf and other EVs, will quickly become mass market hits, and even suggested that fully electric models could account for 10% of all car sales by 2020.
The Leaf, which runs a [...]

Bright Automotive, a company that put itself on the map with its 100-mpg IDEA plug-in utility van, announced a new $1.4 million contract with the U.S. Army to build a plug-in hybrid for non-combat use. The PHEV will be built to lower Army fuel consumption. Its purpose is also going to help show how [...]

IAV Automotive Engineering out of Germany has recently secured an impressive patent for their electric vehicle wireless road charging system. That’s right, it magically beams energy to your electric car.
The technology would work by installing electrical conductors into rodas. These conductors would generate magnetic fields which charge an electric vehicle’s battery as it drives. RFID [...]