Exclusive: Georgia Leads US In EV Adoption For 2014 Georgia as taken the lead from Washington for electric vehicle sales adoption on a state by state basis By Jay Cole Sales - Sep 13 2014 -
August 2014 Plug-In Electric Vehicle Sales Report Card Sales of plug-in vehicles in the United States continue to hit their stride in August as more than 10,000 EVs were sold for the 4th consecutive month By Jay Cole Sales - Sep 3 2014 -
Nissan Loses Another High Power Exec And Lead EV Enthusiast In Andy Palmer Nissan has lost its Chief Planning Officer Andy Palmer to Aston Martin, and with him goes Nissan's face of electric vehicles By Jay Cole General - Sep 2 2014 -
BREAKING: Nissan Prices LEAF Battery Replacement at $5,499, New Packs More Heat Durable Nissan has announced the cost to replace a 24 kWh battery inside their all-electric LEAF. The replacement includes improved chemistry against temperature By Jay Cole General - Jun 27 2014 -
Mercedes-Benz B-Class ED Battery Larger Than Expected - 36 kWh, 104 Miles Of Range Available The Mercedes-Benz B-Class ED is now known to have a 36 kWh battery capacity, 28 of which are used in 'normal' operation By Jay Cole General - Jun 23 2014 -
California Ups HOV Green Sticker Program By 15,000 to 55,000 Total California Governor Brown has just signed SB853 - a budget trailer bill, that includes a unexpected addition of more green stickers for PHEV drivers. By Jay Cole General - Jun 23 2014 -
Sacramento Airport In Running For Tesla Gigafactory Location Can California get out of their own way enough to let Mather Airport in Sacramento have a real shot at making a winning bid for Tesla's new battery facility? By Jay Cole General - May 28 2014 -
Fiat CEO on 500e: "I Hope You Don't Buy It" - We Lose 14k A Sale Apparently Fiat is immune to the forces of scale and decreasing battery prices when it comes to the 500e, loss per car grows to $14,000 By Jay Cole General - May 22 2014 -
CARB Rethinks Booting Tesla Model S and Cadillac ELR From Rebate Program In order to conserve funding of the $2,500 CARB rebate in California, the group considered putting a $60,000 MSRP cap on the program. Not so much anymore By Jay Cole General - May 21 2014 -
Tesla Model S Coupe And Coupe Convertible Available Through NCE From $35,000 NCE, the company that is building hundreds of 4 door Tesla Model S convertibles comes a couple new Tesla Model S offerings - a coupe and a coupe convertible By Jay Cole General - May 20 2014 -
New Specs For 2015 e-Golf Released By VW, Launches Later This Year VW has released some a lot of new details on their upcoming e-Golf electric car. Range is expected to be around 80 miles, with decent performance specs By Jay Cole General - May 14 2014 -
Jay Leno Gets First McLaren P1, Drives The Heck Out Of It On Normal Roads - video Jay Leno received the first plug-in McLaren P1 supercar in the United States. Then Jay took it straight out and put 1,000 miles on it. By Jay Cole General - May 13 2014 -
New York Cuts Deal To Allow Existing Tesla Stores To Continue Direct Selling Averting a collision between state dealers and Tesla, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that 5 existing Tesla stores can continue to sell direct By Jay Cole General - Mar 29 2014 -
Picture (s) Of The Day: Tesla's Test Track In Fremont In Action Tesla's Fremont Assembly - Track In Upper Left About 8 months ago, Tesla purchased a fairly large property of land beside their Fremont assembly facility. This 35 acre property, which had been owned by Union Pacific Railroad, and had previously saw New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (or NUMMI) build a test track for GM and Toyota products that used to come out the plant be... By Jay Cole General - Mar 7 2014 -
Video: Utilizing A Combustion Heater In A Fully Electric Car - A User's Story It's below freezing outside, you own an electric car, you have a distance to drive that is close to your vehicle's maximum range. What do you do? For most the choice is simple: transform into you super alter ego - "Popsicle Man" while you conserve energy incorporate a little detour to a public charging station hop in you 2014 Land Rover Range Rover Sport instead Or, as demons... By Jay Cole General - Feb 27 2014 -
Chevrolet Spark EV Range Record Now Stands At Almost 140 Miles 139.7 Miles Is The Mark To Beat In A Chevrolet Spark EV Earlier this month Nick Jaynes at Digital Trends set out to achieve a new Chevrolet Spark EV distance record on a single charge. On paper, according to EPA the Spark EV's range is pegged at 82 miles with 129 MPGe in the city and 108 MPGe on the highway, but for maximum range tests none of these metrics applies as a s... By Jay Cole General - Feb 24 2014 -
Nissan LEAF Leads EV Sales Race in UK For First Month Of The Year + Infographic While Nissan Is The Runaway Best Seller Compared To All Other Plug-Ins For The UK - There Is Still Room For Improvement To Be Sure Judging by our inbox at InsideEVs, Nissan really wants the world to know they lead the UK in electric vehicle sales in January of 2014 (we got 3 separate notes about it). This Commemorative 100,000th LEAF Had 50,000 2p and 50,... By Jay Cole Sales - Feb 10 2014 -
January 2014 Plug-In Electric Vehicle Sales Report Card Speaking in terms of electric vehicle sales, January is a wasteland of poor selling days for the plug-in vehicle segment. Gone is the incentive to pull the trigger on a EV purchase to get that $7,500 credit on this year's taxes; and the cold winter months for a good bulk of Americans means diminishing range for their electric vehicles - a similar shrinkage can also be found in the willpower of ... By Jay Cole Sales - Feb 3 2014 -
Ford Offers $6,000 Off Focus Electric ($29,170), Leases From $229 Per Month Ford Is Looking To Sell Some EVs In 2014! Not so long ago Ford reduced the MSRP of the Focus Electric by $4,000 - now they are doing the consumer one better by putting more cash on the hood. Heading Into 2014, Ford Had Never Sold More Than 180 Focus Electrics In Any Month - We Suspect Ford To Set A New "High Water" Mark Soon! $6,00... By Jay Cole General - Feb 3 2014 -
Breaking: Ford Fusion Energi Gets A $4,000 Price Reduction To $34,700 Ford Notes New $4,000 Lower Starting Price On 2014 Fusion Energi At $34,700, The Fusion Energi Is One Of The Most Attractive Plug-In Offerings For 2014 The Ford Fusion Energi has been the quiet hit of the second half 2013. Over the last 4 months Ford has sold 3,618 of them. Put another way, that is an an average of just over 900 copies ... By Jay Cole General - Jan 7 2014 -
Cadillac ELR Arrives Early, Manages To Sell 6 Copies In December Some Cadillac ELRs Get Loaded Up Outside GM's Hamtramck, Michigan Assembly Facility On December 17th, 2013 How many times have you heard this one? "Automaker ships plug-in electric car early!" If you said never, you would be probably be spot on - that is at least until this month as new Cadillac ELRs left GM's Hamtramck, Michigan plant on December 17th, 2013 - a month... By Jay Cole Sales - Jan 3 2014 -
December 2013 Plug-In Electric Vehicle Sales Report Card Thanks To The Tax Implications Of The $7,500 Federal Credit On Plug-Ins, December Will End The Year Strong For Electric Vehicle Sales While the year will fall just short of 100,000 plug-in vehicles sold in America, the second half growth of the industry is undeniable as nearly 40% more cars were sold between July and December - a trend we hope continues into 2014. For the mo... By Jay Cole Manufacturing / Production - Jan 3 2014 -
Nissan Ships 28 e-NV200 Electric Vans To British Gas - Largest Commercial Trial To Date (video) British Gas e-NV200 "Out For A Tick" In The UK As further proof that Nissan's much-anticipated, all electric e-NV200 van is indeed coming soon, the commercial testing of the vehicle has moved from a random one or two EVs placed globally (here, here and here) to 28 in one location. This fleet of electric vans have all be shipped to British Gas, whic... By Jay Cole General - Nov 28 2013 -
BMW Delivers First i3 Electric Vehicles In Germany Today First deliveries of BMW's i3 electric vehicles happen a day earlier than promised today in Germany. BMW Execs Show Off Some Stylish EVSE Hardware At a special ceremony, Ian Robertson, who is a Member of the Board of Management of BMW (along a dozen other people and dignitaries that we don't care to mention) handed out keys to lucky new i3 owners from the ... By Jay Cole General - Nov 15 2013 -
