We are getting a lot (A LOT) of news about new battery powered hybrids of some sort or another that will either be 100% battery or some kind of combination of battery and gas power.  GM has shown us that they are commited to that market with the new Chevy Volt.  GM, however, isn’t putting [...]

General Motors India is currently discussing with Reva Electric Car Company, a Bangalore based company for a technical collaboration and a JV, executives close to the development said. GM India will source EV technology from Reva to roll our electric variants of its Chevrolet Spark small car in India and select overseas markets. “We have [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Electric Transportation Engineering Corp., which earlier in August received a federal grant for funding electric vehicle infrastructure, received another $8 million from the California Energy Commission to help the rollout. The money will be used to increase the number of charging stations in the San Diego area. Earlier this month, eTec, the Phoenix-based subsidiary of [...]

Electric cars don’t use gas to go.  This results in a zero emission vehicle that saves us harmful pollution, but these cars still need to plugin to the grid to recharge and go.  And since almost half of our electricity comes from burning coal, and we’ll be using more electricity to power our homes and [...]

Ford Motor Company announced today that it has developed an intelligent vehicle-to-grid communications and control system for its plug-in hybrid electric vehicles that ‘talks’ directly with the nation’s electric grid. This new technology – which builds on Ford’s advancements such as SYNC®, SmartGauge™ with EcoGuide and Ford Work Solutions™ – allows the vehicle operator to [...]

BMW is working a line of electric vehicles (EVs) to be included in its “Project i” series, a sub-brand of BMW. “Project i” vehicles may even have a separate, non-BMW faceplate. According to an Environmental Leader report, BMW parallels its separating of the energy efficient brands from more mainstream ones to its distinguishing of its [...]