Ford has announced that the upcoming 2013 C-MAX Energi will have a base price of $33,745, without taking into account the $3,750 federal tax credit as well as the other tax credits that can worth as much as $1,500 in sunny California. The C-MAX Energi will be a worthy adversary for the Toyota Prius V [...]

Engineers have been putting a lot of efforts into making EVs as energy efficient as they can be but the battery pack of an electric vehicle is not able to store as much energy as a full tank of gasoline which is why the range of an electric vehicle is significantly lower in comparison to [...]

There are two big reasons why Honda has decided to shift the production of the upcoming 2013MY Civic Hybrid Sedan to the United States. The first one has to do with the increasing costs of building the car in homeland Japan, while the other reason is related to the costs of having to ship these [...]

Although we’re not big fans of the Nissan Leaf, this doesn’t mean that our beloved readers are not interested in buying this car. For this reason, you might want to know that there are a bunch of 2012MY Leafs which are available with a pretty nice discount at select dealers located in Washington and California. [...]

The Ingolstadt-based automaker Audi has managed to establish a new lap record on the famous Nurburgring Nordschleife track for an electrical road car. They’ve used an R8 e-tron which did a lap of the track in 8:09:099. This all-electric supercar is not just a concept as Audi is preparing a production version of the vehicle [...]

There’s a new electric test fleet vehicle around the block, the Mazda2 all-electric which in Japan is known as the Mazda Demio EV. This car will get a 20 kWh lithium-ion battery pack that consists of 18650-format commodity cells. On the Japanese test cycle, the car should be able to provide a range of up [...]

The 2013 BMW ActiveHybrid 3 is scheduled to go on sale in the United States this fall when it will join its bigger ActiveHybrid 5 brother. The entry-level version will set you back at least $50,195 including here the handling & destination charges, which makes it approximately $7,000 more expensive in comparison to the 2013MY [...]

In the next four years Mitsubishi plans on launching hybrid and electric versions for its entire lineup. The first car to result from this move is a plug-in hybrid version of the Outlander which will be out in the first part of 2013. The SUV will be able to return 140 mpg UK on the [...]

Arriving for the first time on UK ground, the Tata Megapixel has made an appearance at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. This is a range-extended EV concept that has CO2 emissions of only 22g/km and can return up to 282 mpg UK. Prakash Telang who is the managing director at Tata Motors has described the [...]

The diesel-electric Hybrid4 technology developed for Peugeot is currently available for the 508 crossover and station wagon versions but next month the sedan will get it too. Just like its two cousins, the Peugeot 508 Hybrid sedan is motivated by a 2.0-liter HDi diesel power unit that provides 161 hp to the front wheels while [...]

Scheduled to go on sale next month in United Kingdom, BMW has slapped a 40,225-pound price tag on the ActiveHybrid 3 which will be sold in four trim levels: SE, Modern, Luxury and M Sport. Just like its bigger brother, the ActiveHybrid 5, it has a 6-cylinder 3.0-liter TwinPower engine and a 55 hp electric [...]

It’s been quite a while since we received news about the Swedish automaker SAAB. Back in December last year, the company filed for bankruptcy even though for a while the owner of the automaker by the name of Swedish Automobile tried very hard to find for the problematic carmaker a buyer who would be interested [...]

Tesla’s highly anticipated Model S has finally reached the market after the company delivered its first electric sedan to a client a few days ago. Now that the development for the car has been finished, the automaker can now focus on future models which will be launched in the years to come. As we have [...]

The Renault Zoe is certainly not on top of your list when it comes down to electric vehicles but this might change as the French EV has broke the record for the longest distance covered over the course of 24 hours. During an event that was organized at the Aubevoye technical center, the car was [...]

After months of anticipation, Mercedes-Benz has finally put into production the electric version of the Smart ForTwo which will be sold in both coupe and cabrio versions. The tiny electric city car will be driven by a small electric motor that generates 74 hp and a battery pack that has a capacity of 17.6 kWh. [...]