As CEO Elon Musk explained in yesterday’s Tesla conference call, 2012 was a pivotal year for the electric automaker. It began with the firm still producing limited quantities of the Tesla Roadster, and ended with the Model S sedan achieving an annualized production rate of 20,000 units. Along...
If your idea of a vehicle with another attatched to the back is a Winnebago with a Smart ForTwo strapped behind it, you need to start thinking about downsizing. Chinese... April 26, 2011 by Antony Ingram
The last we heard about development of a second-generation Audi A2 model was that the project was on hold due to the lack of a suitable platform. Now it’s been reported... February 28, 2011 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran
The life of a model/actor is hard. "Oh, right", you say, "lying on a sofa and staring vacantly into a bank of cameras is way tougher than military service or manual labor or... December 1, 2010 by Richard Read
The era of mainstream electric vehicles is nearly upon us. Next month first deliveries of the Nissan Leaf will officially start and soon after the Chevrolet Volt... November 10, 2010 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran
Although the relative silence of electric vehicles would make them the number one choice of TV gangsters for drive-by shootings, the rest of the world will almost certainly... November 2, 2010 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran
Over the past decade Infiniti has been carefully forging a performance image for itself, developing cars with class leading powertrains and dynamics. With the company... September 24, 2010 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran
Last year we saw the C1-E electric scooter concept from BMW, and just yesterday MINI dropped images of its new Scooter E, and now rival company Daimler has released details... September 24, 2010 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran
In March of 2008 BMW first announced plans to establish a new research division called ‘Project i,’ whose task would be to develop a number of solutions for a... September 23, 2010 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran
Earlier this month BMW released a teaser video of a mysterious near-silent running 6-Series prototype and the smug remark “don’t blog about this”. Of... September 15, 2010 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran
The Ferrari 599 Hybrid sounds interesting to some and blasphemous to others. The car plans to use hybrid technology to help meet the European Council's 2012s strict CO2... February 27, 2010 by Todd DeMeza