A while back, Chevrolet tried to do away with the whole “Chevy idea. That didn’t really go along very well but here’s Mitsubishi preparing this car for the U.S. and calling it the “i. Mitsubishi i I find it just about as amusing as the “Chevy situation because that’s the Mitsubishi i-MiEV with some vinyl [...]

One of the most eagerly awaited EVs of our time, the Nissan Leaf has entered a new stage of it’s existence, it began series production today. 2011 Nissan Leaf assembly line The production of the Nissan Leaf began this morning at the company’s Oppama facility in Japan. The Oppama plant is one of Nissan’s finest [...]

There is a rumor concerning the European version of the Chevrolet Volt running around, and I say this with a bit of a clench because i know that the newspaper behind hasn’t always proved to be the best of reliable sources. Opel Ampera The newspaper quoted for this rumor is the British print from “The [...]

Zipcar, the world’s largest car club sharing operator has teamed up with the Westminster City Council in central London to offer its car sharing members environmentally friendly car choices. The car sharing club has added 20 different hybrid vehicles and 1 full EV to its lineup of available vehicles.  Some of the hybrid models include [...]

“What would Google do?” is not only a meme in media theory but the title of a Jeff Jarvis book, where he uses the question as shorthand for looking at old problems in new ways. Now Mike and Maaike, the pair of designers who created Google’s G1 phone (the first based on its Android software), [...]

Japan Post Service Co.,  (the part of Japan Post Group responsible for mail delivery) is expected to start 5-year lease terms on 40 electric vehicles by the end of July.  The company will utilize 20 Mitsubishi MiEVs and 20 Subaru Stellas primarily in Kanagawa Prefecture where some charging infrastructure already exists. The mail service will [...]

China clearly sees EVs as a major player in the future auto industry.  To achieve widespread adoption within their country, the government has kicked off several new incentive programs and has begun to increase manufacturing capacity and build new R&D facilities. In December the cities of Denver, Colorado and Chongqing, China along with the help [...]

Bolstered  by the sales of the Ford Fusion hybrid and recent introduction of the new Prius hybrid, sales of hybrid models as a whole are still on the rise despite dwindling sales in other vehicle segments. Overall, hybrid sales are up 9 percent this June compared to last year and up an additional 2 percent [...]