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2013 Volkswagen E-Up!

2013 Volkswagen E-Up!

Volkswagen showed off its new 2013 E-Up! at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show. It’s a city car that sports that will first be made in gasoline form, but will soon include an electric drivetrain by 2012. [...]

BRABUS Creates 4WD Full Electric E-Class Prototype

BRABUS Creates 4WD Full Electric E-Class Prototype

Known for their aftermarket creations, BRABUS has decided to get into the electric car game and debuted a high-performance 4WD full electric prototype at the Frankfurt Motor Show back in September. While they didn’t create the [...]

Rimac’s Concept One: An Electric Sports Car Built by a 23-year-old (video)

Rimac’s Concept One: An Electric Sports Car Built by a 23-year-old (video)

Who would have thought a 23-year-old could build an electric sports car with enough power to rival that of a Bugatti Veyron? Turns out Croatian designer Mate Rimac has built exactly this with his Concept One [...]

Toyota’s Electric Scion iQ: Finally Gets Official 2012 Scheduled Launch

Toyota’s Electric Scion iQ: Finally Gets Official 2012 Scheduled Launch

Toyota shocked auto blogs and jolted the net after confirming that the electric Scion iQ will officially launch in the U.S. come 2012. This all came from a very recent dealer meeting in Sin City, where [...]

Model S Pricing Unveiled Along With Delivery Schedule

Model S Pricing Unveiled Along With Delivery Schedule

It would seem like Tesla’s Model S EV can’t arrive soon enough. While we knew pricing for the vehicle would be about $50,000 after US tax credits, we didn’t know the launch schedule or what else [...]

Nissan Leaf Review (video)

Nissan Leaf Review (video)

Pros: Drives like a luxury car complemented by a quiet interior Bluetooth works flawlessly for calls and music, plus AUX and USB inputs Roomy interior Con: 100 mile range Takes 8 hours to charge on a [...]

Nissan Esflow Electric Car Should Fire Like A Rocket

Nissan Esflow Electric Car Should Fire Like A Rocket

While the Leaf is a practical and innovative electric vehicle, it hardly bears the same allure as Tesla’s Roadster or any other luxury car for that matter.  And that explains why the company has announced plans [...]

E-Boxster Unveiled, 0-60 Unknown But Expected To Be Comparable To Gas Guzzling Version

E-Boxster Unveiled, 0-60 Unknown But Expected To Be Comparable To Gas Guzzling Version

Think Porsche and you’ll conjure up not only an image of the 911, but the iconic sound associated with the air cooled engine.  Sure, they’re now water cooled, but the sound still remains a head turner [...]

Mercedes E-Cell Is The World’s First Electric Supercar

Mercedes E-Cell Is The World’s First Electric Supercar

Images leaked today showing Mercedes upcoming E-Cell supercar, and wow is this thing cool. It features four electric motors that produce 12,000 rpm, with 519 horsepower and 649 lb-ft of torque – that means 0 to 60 [...]

The Fastest Street Legal Electric Car Is From 30 Years Ago (video)

The Fastest Street Legal Electric Car Is From 30 Years Ago (video)

Whose got the fastest street legal all electric car? No, not Tesla. A guy named John Wayland who converted an old Datsun.  It can now do over 100mph in the quarter mile, which equates to a [...]