The Japanese luxury manufacturer is now throwing some hybrid shade Volvo’s way. You’d forgive a company like Lexus for being annoyed about the fervent reception to Volvo’s recent announcement that it’s taking its entire offering electric by 2019 – it’s already there. Lexus UK’s director Ewan Shepherd hit back at…
1 month ago by Inside EVs Staff 1Comments
Our colleagues at Motor1 UK are on the scene in Frankfurt, putting together videos on some of the hottest cars at the show. One of the most exciting cars at the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show is a plug-in hybrid, but it is a hypercar – the Mercedes AMG Project One….
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Nissan’s new EV goes from happy-go-lucky to sporty and angry. With more electric vehicles on the road, the Nissan Leaf now faces some stiffer competition in the long-range EV market – i.e. the Chevrolet Bolt and the Tesla Model 3. The new 2018 Nissan Leaf seeks to be more competitive…
1 month ago by Inside EVs Staff 41Comments
Vanda has released this footage of its 200mph Dendrobium electric supercar. For more info, click here: https://t.co/QyjqaQ6gG9 pic.twitter.com/Yx532AAaPS — Autocar (@autocar) July 28, 2017 The electric hypercar from Singapore was shown at this year’s Geneva motor show. The Vanda Dendrobium has been spotted on the road for the first time…
2 months ago by Inside EVs Staff 0Comments
Your Arizonan taxi won’t go south of the border at this time of night. You’d think the notoriously hellish Coventry ring road would be a stern enough test for a new car prototype, but taxi manufacturer LTC (aka London Taxi Company), which is based in the London, decided it needed…
2 months ago by Inside EVs Staff 3Comments
We first ran into Volta’s unique EV charging stations in Honolulu, Hawaii several years ago. We say unique because they have a business model unlike many others. The public charging stations are free to use, because the cost of the machines and their operation is offset by offering branding and…
2 months ago by Inside EVs Staff 17Comments
Nissan has really been on the warpath to: promote its Intelligent Mobility/Pro Pilot technology (here, here, here, etc), while at the same time, putting split-second shots of the new 2018 LEAF in front of us Now via an ad spot out of Japan we get yet more of the same….
2 months ago by Inside EVs Staff 33Comments
These five electrified cars and crossovers deliver the lowest five-year ownership costs, led by the Mitsubishi i-MiEV. As we outlined in a separate post, astute shoppers should do their homework and choose a new vehicle that has the lowest long-term operating costs to get the most bang for one’s vehicular…
3 months ago by Inside EVs Staff 21Comments
They’re all hybrids or EVs, of course. And, no, a Tesla is not among them. Sure, gas remains relatively cheap. Even though many Americans have been trading in their fuel-sipping small cars for larger crossover SUVs and pickup trucks these days, there remains a core group of motorists who shop…
3 months ago by Inside EVs Staff 65Comments
Motorsport.com’s Julia Piquet Interviews Her Brother, Nelson Piquet Jr As many of you know, Nelson Piquet Jr is a Formula E champion (2015 season), and currently drives for Next EV in the all-electric racing series. Piquet also contributes columns to InsideEVs on racing and electric vehicle technology. Now the “inside track”…
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Ever wanted the ability to share you charger for a fee? Now you don’t have to be a large public network provider to do just that. Peer-to-peer charging is now a real thing with eMotorWerks enabled stations, thanks to a new partnership with MotionWerk’s Share&Charges blockchain transaction program. Now every…
3 months ago by Inside EVs Staff 5Comments
The latest verion of eMotorWerks’ JuiceNet Solar cloud platform lets owners of PV systems get the most renewable “solar energy” as possible for their plug-in electric vehicles via smart charging. eMotorWerks says the new system uses advanced algorithms “to match the charging speed of any number of JuiceNet-connected EVs to…
4 months ago by Inside EVs Staff 9Comments
