Easily one of the strangest concepts on show at this week’s 2011 New York Auto Show, Nissan’s Leaf Nismo RC was made even stranger by being presented bathed in blue light. Described as ‘Purpose-Built Prototype’, the Leaf Nismo RC essentially wraps the zero-emissions...
It may look like someone spilled their mug of Juke all over a drawing of Infiniti's Essence, but the Nissan ESFLOW is something we're glad to see from a major carmaker that... February 9, 2011 by Nelson Ireson 1
Cloud computing is very much a feature of 'Web 2.0'. Rather than using a location-dependent center of resources such as a server, cloud computing uses shared servers, all of... January 28, 2011 by Antony Ingram 1
This year, the car game finally changed. A couple of years back, Tesla shocked the world (quite literally) with their all-electric Roadster. It was the first electric car... December 23, 2010 by Samuel Spencer
The winner of the 2011 European Car of the Year awards has been announced, with the 2011 Nissan Leaf taking top honors, the same car our sister site, GreenCarReports, picked... November 29, 2010 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran 1
I have a younger sibling who doesn't know a world without the Internet. Isn't that unbelievable? Technology is accelerating at such a blinding rate these days that ten years... October 28, 2010 by Samuel Spencer 1
It is a tough question to answer these days. I've spent days pondering about it to myself. I remember back in the early 2000s when the new MINI came out. That was an... September 14, 2010 by Samuel Spencer
Few rites of passage get landmark status in a car fan's life. There's nothing in a car life like the birth of a first kid or the signing of a first mortgage--unless you have... September 13, 2010 by Marty Padgett 14
There's been a lot of talk about electric rides lately, most of it having to do with the Chevrolet Volt and the Nissan Leaf. (They're not the only EVs on the market... August 2, 2010 by Richard Read 3
As the upper echelon of the world's carmakers proceed merrily with plans for all-electric supercars, and the econo-car market begins to get crowded with announced EV entries... July 19, 2010 by Nelson Ireson
Auto makers have gradually begun introducing their own interpretations of the plug-in electric vehicle, still a fairly unfamiliar concept to most consumers. Since their... July 18, 2010 by Peter Loeser
Last month Forbes writer Jerry Flint published a commentary on Nissan’s newest green innovation, the Leaf. The title of the article really says it all, “Why Nissan’s... March 4, 2010 by Jonathan McGrew 1
As electric vehicles (EVs) become more popular, the more cities compete to be the first to have a high adoption rate. The easy pick for a green city and a likely one to adopt... February 21, 2010 by Jonathan McGrew
There's the Tesla Roadster and several three-wheeled electric vehicles for sale, but so far getting a purely electric-powered car to production with a standard car's features... August 1, 2009 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran 7
Former president Bush signed the $25 billion Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Incentive Program into life last year, but for the past 8 months, the U.S. Department... June 29, 2009 by James Martinez 1
President Bush signed the $25 billion Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Incentive Program into life last year, but for the past 8 months, the U.S. Department of... June 23, 2009 by Nelson Ireson 1