The Worthersee Tour, an event that draws in Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda and Seat brands is holding its 31st annual 3-day event starting May 16 in Carinthia, Austria. This year, Audi is bringing a two-wheeled prototype as part of its display, the e-bike Worthersee prototype. Although the bike has pedals, it can also be operated by [...]
Tesla yesterday reported a first-quarter net loss of $89.9 million compared to $48.9 million a year earlier. However, the electric-car maker has some good news – it said that it will start delivering the Model S electric-sedan to customers next month, much earlier than the company had originally planned. Check out all the details, specs and [...]
Just when it seemed like negative headlines were no longer in Fisker Automotive’s future, a fire broke out at the home of a new Fisker Karma owner, badly damaging his home. Officials who investigated the scene that the electric sedan was to blame for the fire. “Yes, the Karma was the origin of the fire, [...]
Toyota has finally unveiled the all-new all-electric Toyota RAV4 EV. Working with Tesla Motors, Toyota has the intent to bring the vehicle to market in 2012 with a starting price tag of $49,800. The Toyota RAV4 EV will be sold fully-equipped. “It’s all about blending the best of two worlds,” said Bob Carter, group vice president [...]
BMW has officially confirmed its involvement in a joint research project Visio.M scientists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM). The project, which has other cooperation with engineers from the automotive industry, will develop concepts to produce electric cars that are affordable to the masses. In fact, BMW is a lead manage of the project which has [...]
About a month ago, Toyota started selling the Prius Plug-in Hybrid without much advertising – however, the power of the Prius-brand came through for Toyota and helped it surpass sales over the Nissan LEAF and the Chevrolet Volt. In April (2012), Nissan sold only 370 units of the LEAF while Chevrolet sold 1,462 units of [...]
At the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show, Croatian company Rimac unveiled something it called the Concept_One, an electric supercar that it said it will produce only 88 examples of. The company has just announced at the Top Marques in Monaco that it will start production soon with prices starting around €742,000 (or $980,000 USD). The company announced [...]
Toyota confirmed today that it will debut the all-new RAV4 EV at the 26th International Electric Vehicle Symposium (EVS26) in Los Angeles. The debut will take place on May 7 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. At the 2010 LA Auto Show, Toyota unveiled the RAV4 EV prototype, which gets its power from Tesla Motors [...]
A couple of days ago, its was reported that General Motors trademarked ‘SS’ for a new vehicle. The news led to speculation that the Detroit automaker will be coming out with a downright mean performance sedan for the Chevrolet brand that would fill the void left by the Pontiac G8 GXP. A sharp-eyed individual by [...]
In the most recent episode of Jay Leno’s Garage, the man in jeans and a jean shirt gets behind the new Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid sedan. Click here for more news on the Fisker Karma. What does he think? Find out after the jump. Refresher: Power for the Fisker Karma comes from Fisker’s Q-DRIVE system, which is [...]
