Mitsubishi is focusing on electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids and a range of SUVs as it seeks to reinvigorate its global line-up. Speaking with Australian media at today’s Tokyo motor show, Mitsubishi managing director of product ...
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Nissan Motor, a Japanese automotive company has tied up with NRG Energy's subsidiary NRG eVgo to expand its electric vehicle charging station, Freedom Station chain across Washington DC, US. Through this plan, eVgo is intending to develop ...
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German automaker Daimler is planning to expand its partnership with American electric car maker Tesla Motors. Daimler holds a 4.3% stake in Tesla, which currently supplies electric motors and batteries to Daimler for its vehicles. Daimler ...
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BMW believes half the buyers of its new i3 electric car will pay a premium for a range extending petrol engine option rather than rely on battery power alone. The BMW i3, the first model from the German car maker’s new i brand ...
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Genovation Cars is pleased to announce its participation in a major research grant awarded by the National Science Foundation to the University of Maryland for $438,418 to support the development of an Advanced-Silicon-Carbide-based, ...
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BMW has ruled out adding an SUV to its new line-up of low-emissions i-badge vehicles. The German car maker is working on the next members of its new i sub brand that currently comprises the BMW i3 electric car officially launched this ...
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There will be more than 10,000 new Telsa owners across Germany each year by 2015, according to the electric car maker’s CEO, Elon Musk. Speaking with German newspaper Welt am Sonntag last week, Musk said the ambitious annual target ...
Volvo Car Group has successfully completed a research project on inductive charging for cars and buses on a Volvo C30 Electric car. The results showed that technology for transferring energy through an electromagnetic field has a great ...
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Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has labelled fuel cell vehicles “bullshit” and hydrogen gas “dangerous” in a presentation at one of the electric car maker’s new German service centres. Musk criticised the safety ...
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Electric car maker Tesla is looking to expand beyond its success in the US, with the badge securing its first-ever sale in mainland China. A 24-year-old man from Dongyang city, in China’s eastern Zhejiang province, has become the ...
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Volvo has developed a method of storing energy in car body panels that could make conventional hybrid and electric vehicle batteries a thing of the past. The three-and-a-half year project –funded by the European Union and comprising ...
The Nissan ZEOD RC that will compete in the 2014 Le Mans 24-hour endurance race using electric power has been unveiled in completed form. Nissan’s performance division, Nismo, revealed the hybrid race car in Japan today, eight ...
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A Tesla Model S caught fire on a highway in the US city of Seattle recently after its floor-mounted battery compartment was ruptured by a large piece of metal. The shape and size of the metal piece was enough to punch a 7.62cm diameter ...
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On the Second, October, an American car fires caused wide public concern. It is not a normal car, but the star of electric Tesla MODEL S. Accident on the same day, Tesla global public relations director Elizabeth issued an emergency ...
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The Toyota i-Road personal mobility concept car has been confirmed for production with an early-2014 introduction planned. First seen as an all-electric three-wheel two-seater concept at this year’s Geneva motor show, Toyota says ...