AMERICAN FIRM Coulomb Technologies has signed up local company ChargePoint to distribute its electric vehicle charging systems in Australia. The roll-out of street-level charging stations is planned for 2010.

ChargePoint is currently in negotiations with government and private bodies in Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. It aims to install the first charging stations in the first half of next [...]

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RENAULT HAS CONFIRMED that it will move ahead with plans to build three electric cars in Europe, with the first to enter production in 2011.

The Zoe Z.E, Twizy Z.E and Kangoo Z.E concepts that were shown at the recent Frankfurt Motor Show will form the basis for these cars, and will be built in volume [...]

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VOLVO HAS RELEASED details of its latest experiment in electric propulsion, the C30 BEV (battery electric vehicle), at the Frankfurt Motor Show this week.

The C30 BEV has been in the offing for a while now, and the C30’s small car platform has been already been used as the basis for the ReCharge plug-in hybrid concept.

While [...]

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WITH JUST ABOUT every volume-selling carmaker - and more than a few supercar and luxury manufacturers - getting set to offer all-electric vehicles in the near future, a universal infrastructure is vital.

So important is the electric car’s future in the new car market that, according to US consulting firm Pike Research, the number of recharge [...]

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MITSUBISHI’S DOING IT, Subaru’s doing it and so is Daimler. Now Mazda has joined the ranks of automakers who’ve chosen to back all-electric power as the way of the future.

The Japanese company announced yesterday that it has established the Electric Drive System Development Office, which will be tasked with creating a new generation of electric [...]

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German automaker Daimler AG has announced its purchase of an almost 10 percent equity stake in US electric car start-up Tesla, an acquisition which it hopes will boost development of its future all-electric models.

Recently both companies have been collaborating on the electric charging and storage system for the upcoming smart fortwo ed, which is due [...]

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If hybrids are still too “dirty” for you and hydrogen fuel cells just seem like a waste of time, you’re probably one of those individuals that see electric cars as being the real saviour of our carbon-choked planet.

Mitsubishi will likely bring its i MiEV battery-electric city car here early next decade, but it appears that [...]

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In line with Britain’s goal of making London the world’s Electric Vehicle capital, UK firm the Electric Car Corporation (ECC) has launched its own all-electric version of Citroën’s C1.

Called the C1 ev’ie, Electric Car Corporation’s version of the French minicar looks for all the world like a standard C1. The only visible change to the [...]

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Agreeing on an industry-wide standard can often be a long and drawn-out affair. We’ve seen it before with VHS vs Betamax, CD vs Minidisc and more recently with HD DVD and Blu-Ray.

Thankfully, the majority of the world’s biggest automakers have instead decided to bypass the squabbling and agree on a standardised type of charging plug [...]

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Subaru has announced that it’ll be bumping up the power, beefing up the torque and cutting some weight out of the next version of its Stella electric vehicle, which will enter production and commence limited sales in the middle of this year.

The production Stella will boast an extra seven kilowatts of power, 20 Newton metres [...]

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While Mitsubishi showcased a left-hand-drive version of its all-electric i MiEV city car at New York, the Federal Government this week confirmed that the battery-powered vehicle was officially road-legal for Australia.

The i MiEV has satisfied all of the relevant Australian Design Rules to be road-registerable and, while it doesn’t guarantee we’ll see it come our [...]

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Remember Detroit Electric? Of course you don’t; the brand had all but disappeared by the early 1930s. Before the end of this decade however, the just-resuscitated Detroit Electric plans to have its cars on the road once again.

After being reformed in 2007, Detroit Electric hopes to have its first modern offering available next year. A compact [...]

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