67 isn’t nearly as high as the 230 MPG that GM claims the Volt will get.  But for a luxury sports car that’s an outrageous number.  The Karma will achieve that fuel economy based on testing methodology being developed for the next generation of hybrids by the Society of Automotive engineers. Fisker also states that [...]

We here at EVWeblog are very interested in electric vehicles.  So count us in that 48%.  Of all the EVs that will be on the market in the near future the plugin hybrid will almost certainly be the most common.  Something like a hybrid Prius or Fusion that is on the road today but can [...]

Seattle knows Alan Mulally as the father of the Boeing 777. On Monday, he was back in town to show off his newest baby — one with four wheels instead of two wings. You could test drive this one in the parking lot. Now chief executive of the Ford Motor Company, Mulally is out promoting [...]

Renault is playing coy, this bird’s-eye-view is all we’ve seen of the French automakers electric vehicle concepts which will debut at the 2009 Frankfurt motor show. We imagine Renault will take a similar design path with these EV concepts as it has in the past. The Be-Bop ZE concept was a thinly-disguised Kangoo Be-Bop, and [...]

The French automaker has signed a deal with Mitsubishi to jointly make EVs for the European market.  The EVs will be based on MMC’s Japanese i-MiEV* model.  The EV will be made in both Peugeot and Citroën versions.  Production is planned to for October 2010 for commercial launch in the European market by the end [...]

Next month the frankfurt autoshow takes place on BMWs home turf so they want to make the biggest news.  The concept they’ll debut, call Vision EfficientDynamics, is a 356 horsepower diesel electric hybrid that can do 0-60 in 4.8 seconds and will get 75 miles to the gallon. Here’s a video of it: The thing [...]

It would make sense for the U.S. Postal Service to switch to electric vehicles to deliver the mail, since the average postal truck drives about 18 miles a day. The problem will be how to make it pay off, either with government incentives or through so-called vehicle-to-grid revenues. That’s the word from a study from [...]

Most people use the color green for eco friendly things, Mercedes is not most people.  All of their eco friendly projects sit under ‘blue’ in the color spectrum.  This one is called the e-cell plus, this is one of the concept vehicles that Mercedes brought to the Detroit auto show. The compact hatchback, which points [...]

Getting 500,000 electric cars on the world’s roads by 2015 – 1 percent of all the autos produced today – would gobble just 10 percent of the planet’s lithium production each year. That’s more than enough lithium to meet expected demand, say researchers at consulting firm Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG), who recently released the fear-allaying [...]

BYD Auto has pulled ahead its launch timetable for the American market, and now plans to introduce its e6 crossover electric vehicle in the U.S. in 2010, a year ahead of its original schedule. BYD Chairman Wang Chuanfu also said he is considering whether to sell a larger stake in the company to U.S. investor [...]