Axeon is one of nine companies to join the EU’s SmartBatt consortium programme. Led by the Austrian Institute for Technology’s Mobility Devision, it aims to make battery packs easier to incorporate into
Nissan collected the 2011 World Car of the Year for the Leaf, commended for making fully electric motoring no more challenging than a conventional car and beating 39 other contenders to the
The car will be shared between Surface Transport staff and used for site visits to traffic signals and cameras, and joins FfL’s expanding fleet of electric vehicles. These will be supported by
Nissan will also supply charging stations as part of the programme, which follows news that the carmaker was selected as exclusive supplier of purpose built NV200 commercial vehicles, to be used as
Held at the Bank of America Plaza in downtown LA, the annual Motorexpo showcases vehicles from almost all of the world’s biggest carmakers. This year, visitors to the free five-day event will
The D-Segment model is Kia’s first US market hybrid. Powered by a 2.4 litre engine with a Kia-developed parallel hybrid powertrain, it is capable of travelling at up to 62mph on electric
Speaking at the RAC Foundation’s Shades of Green event last week, Andy Carroll, managing director of Glass’s UK, compared per mile costs for the Nissan Leaf, Vauxhall Ampera and a leased battery
Speaking to members of the National Platform for Electric Mobility today, she said Germany should be a market leader for the technology, claiming it should have one million electric vehicles on the
In its Electric Avenues paper, the WWF claims 6% of UK cars, or 1.7 million vehicles, would need to be electric by 2020 to meet targets required by the UK Climate Change
The LEAF earned an 89% rating for adult safety, 83% for child protection and 84% for its on-board safety systems, while pedestrian safety was scored at 65%. Euro NCAP noted that the
Offered for sale by a leasing company, the long wheelbase, high roof van had been used for courier work within London and had covered 14,000 miles since it was first registered in
The study, which examined how 484 US adults would adapt to higher fuel costs, found 57% wouldn’t consider a fully electric car no matter how expensive fuel becomes, with another 10% claiming
The act earmarked $400 million investment in electric vehicle technology, with Coulomb Technologies, ECOtality and General Motors working together to improve the country’s public charging infrastructure. President Obama has set targets of
The Department for Transport said it had planned to install 9,000 points by the end of 2013 as part of its ‘Plugged-in Places’ scheme, with a target of 1.8 cars to each
Part of Hertz’s Global Electric Vehicle Programme, launched last December, the deal will result in i-MiEVs being rolled out at locations throughout the country during 2011, starting with two vehicles in London.
Speaking at the RAC Foundation’s Shades of Green event, Imperial’s Dr Ricardo Martinez-Botas said although EVs are more energy efficient, equivalent CO2 emissions for well-to-wheel were actually higher than hybrids because of