Electric

Do you ever wonder whether cars are getting too aggressive these days? From sports cars to sedans, everything needs to look angry, with headlight and grille designs seemingly styled to shovel up other vehicles and deposit them in a ditch at the side of the road. CHECK OUT: Official Details On The...

It's easy to be cynical of startup companies. They enter the industry, guns blazing, trying to convince us all that their product will change how we look at cars, or internet shopping, or toasters, and most then quickly vanish never to be seen again. You'd be forgiven for thinking Detroit Electric...

Electric car charging may be about to get a lot faster—and a lot cheaper—for everyone. Speaking at the Tesla Model S official U.K. launch, CEO Elon Musk dropped the clearest hints yet that he planned to offer Tesla Motors' [NSDQ:TSLA] Supercharger fast-charge specifications to other...

Local Motors will print a car based on the winning design at the International Manufacturing Technology Show this fall.

Mitsubishi will tackle the Pikes Peak Hill Climb for the third time in a row using an electric race car packing similar technology to that found in its i-MiEV zero-emission minicar. The Japanese automaker will be bringing two third-generation electric racers, known as the MiEV Evolution III, and...

If one thing is needed more than any other to succeed in the automotive industry, it's money. A good product helps too, but money is the difference between that product reaching the audience it needs to, and disappearing without a trace. For Wanxiang Group, the Chinese concern that won the Fisker...

Tesla Motors has announced more details on the release of its Model X crossover, amid production and revenue reports for the first quarter 2014. The electric automaker is in the midst of a huge expansion, during which time it aims to open new stores, service centers and Supercharger fast-charge...

Nowhere is the silence of electric vehicles more apparent than at the dragstrip. When Top Fuel cars regularly hit 150 decibels and shake your body to its core, their electric equivalents sail down the strip with an eerie silence. MUST READ: 2015 Lamborghini Huracán First Drive They're not...

If you've never driven an electric vehicle before, it can be an unusual, and not unpleasant experience. The instant torque, the silence, the ease of use--all reasons electric vehicle owners rave about their cars. DON'T MISS: Cars Swallowed By Giant Sinkhole In Baltimore: Video BMW has turned the...

The concept of range-extended vehicles--electric cars with a gasoline generator to extend their range--is an intriguing way of combining the benefits of both power sources. For the most part, you can roll around in silent, clean, responsive electric power, but can leave your range-related worries...

Just in time to fend off BMW’s new i3 in the still nascent electric car market is the 2014 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive, which is priced at $41,450 before factoring in any subsidies. That compares with pricing for the i3, although the Mercedes misses out on the BMW’s advanced...

It was at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show that Croatian electric car startup Rimac Automobili rolled out its insane 1,088-horsepower Concept One electric supercar. Since then, Rimac has confirmed that the striking concept is destined for production, with just 88 examples to see the light of day and...

Outright electric car sales are still small right now, but there's certainly evidence to suggest the tide is slowly changing. Take BMW's i3 electric car, for example. A four-seat electric city car isn't a natural fit for U.S. roads, but throw in quirky, futuristic styling and the desirability of a...

A much sleeker and sexier Chevrolet Volt is coming to showrooms next year, and we have the first spy shots of a prototype. This is the second generation of Chevy’s groundbreaking extended-range electric car, and though its styling is still not as avant-garde as that of the original Volt...

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has confirmed something we've expected for some time--the American electric car brand will build cars in China. That isn't in lieu of building them in the United States, but in addition to American production. ALSO SEE: Hear The $3.4 Million Lykan Hypersport Start &...

After years of development and a handful of concept versions, BMW’s i8 plug-in hybrid sports car is about to make its auto show debut. We have just one week to go until the covers finally come off but in the lead up BMW has released this teaser video to help build excitement. We don’t...

BMW’s i3 electric car, due in showrooms next spring, is still a week out from its official reveal but we already know all of its specs and now we have the all-important pricing details, too. We can--finally--confirm that the 2014 BMW i3 will be priced from $42,275, including a $925...

BMW’s revolutionary i3 ‘Megacity’ vehicle is now less than a year away from launch and in the lead up to its eventual arrival engineers are hard at work finishing off the final prototype evaluation. The latest spy shots show the i3 doing a striptease that leaves little to the...

On Tuesday, we brought you the story of The New York Times, represented by writer John M. Broder, versus electric car maker Tesla. While the entire incident has been documented and replayed across multiple media sites, we can summarize it by saying that the two sides are at odds on the Tesla Model...

Strip away the 2014 Cadillac ELR’s sculpted coupe body, and underneath beats a heart very similar to the one in the Chevrolet Volt sedan. You would think, then, that launching a comparable car would be a simple task, with engineers able to breeze through already-completed tests, such as cold...