Nissan LEAF EV Electric Car has above average reliability
July 24, 2015 | In: Car Model News If you are thinking of buying a used Nissan LEAF, Electric Car, Consumer Reports has good news. It gives the 2011 Nissan LEAF a “much better than average rating,.” 2012 and Nissan LEAF 2014 models are rated “better than…
Electric Car Start-up Rumors At Apple
According to The Apple Insider July 20th, 2015 Apple has hired former Chrysler executive, Doug Betts. His hiring has fueled rumors that Apple is now entering into the automobile industry. What isn’t clear is if it will be an electric car model or a self-driving car. But what…
Electric Car Program Coming To Los Angeles
A new pilot program aims to offer electric car sharing options and deploy 1.5 million electric vehicles to some of LA’s low-income communities by 2025, officials announced Friday. The $1.6 million project will provide 100 electric and hybrid cars for residents to use in South…
Google enters into Electric Cars Industry?
Late in June, a converted Le Mans prototype built by Drayson Racing set an FIA World Land Speed Record for an electric car. The sub-1,000kg (2,204lbs) electric racer reached a speed of 204.185 mph, but that was not the only development from the land-speed record run. A spectator…
NASCAR puts power behind electric cars
Thanks to a Pennsylvania-based company called Eaton, eight newly installed electric-vehicle charging stations were unveiled Monday in the parking lot of the International Motorsports Center, Daytona Beach, Florida. The EV charging stations are part of a new multi-year partnership with Eaton Corporation, a Fortune 500…
Etiquette For Electric Car Charging
Green Car Reports Pull up to an occupied gas pump, and chances are you’ll have to wait five minutes max for the car in front to vacate the spot. Arrive at an occupied electric car charging space and you may be in for quite some…
How Green Are Electric Cars?
It’s All About the ‘Juice’ EV World Lindsay Wilson debunks the oft-repeated claim that ‘electric cars are no greener’ than gasoline models. It’s time to bust this thing wide open. ‘Electric cars aren’t green’ is a great bit of counter-intuitive headline bait, but it’s bad maths.. <http://www.evworld.com/news.cfm?newsid=30589>
World’s fastest Electric Car at Le Mans
Nissan electrifies next Le Mans with world’s fastest electric racing car Electric cars have yet to become mainstream but in the world of speedy cars and circuits, Nissan is set to change the game with its new ZEOD RC, the fastest electric racing car that clocks in 300 kilometres per hour. Unveiled at Le Mans,…
Electric Sports Cars at Le Mans
24 Hours of Le Mans paves the way for electric sports cars This weekend’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, the premier endurance racing event in the world paves the way for electric sports cars. <http://www.examiner.com/article/24-hours-of-le-mans-paves-the-way-for-electric-sports-cars> See all stories on this topic: <http://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=http://www.examiner.com/article/24-hours-of-le-mans-paves-the-way-for-electric-sports-cars&hl=en&geo=us>
The former head of GM electric cars now at Fisker
Tony Posawatz, Previous head at GM of Electric Cars now CEO The former head of electric cars at General Motors, Tony Posawatz, has been named CEO of luxury hybrid car maker Fisker Automotive. Posawatz spent more than 30 years at GM, where he led global electric…