2018 Chevrolet Bolt EV A new study from Crescent Electric has found the cheapest places to drive an electric car, based on electricity costs in the nation’s 52 largest cities. At the very top of the list is New Orleans, where a daily commute of 15 or so miles per day costs just $54.03 per year….
Image: Paul Lowry Oil is having a bit of a problem, price-wise. Demand is far outstripping supply, and on top of that, there is a U.S. sanction of Iranian exports. All of this is ticking oil prices toward $100 per barrel, the highest price since 2014. At the same time, this is driving up gasoline…
Here at The News Wheel, several of us love the BMW i Series for its commitment to EV technology and, quite frankly, because these are some pretty stylish cars, electric or not. We have known for a while that there was going to be a new all-electric car joining the collection, probably loaded with autonomous…
Toyota’s Aspen Ideas Festival display Recently the Toyota FCV (Fuel Cell Vehicle) has been making headlines all over the place. Just last week, we got to see the production vehicle’s exterior, and learned how much it would cost in Japan. Over the weekend, the Toyota FCV showed up at the 2014 Aspen Ideas Festival, this…
Photo: Mazda It’s no secret that electrified vehicles are all the rage, and Mazda will soon make its contribution to the growing EV arena. On a similar note, we’ve seen other beloved sports cars, including the Mustang and the Camaro, make the jump from gas power to electricity. When taking that into account, it’s only…
Photo: Toyota The Toyota Aygo, first launched in 2014, is the only car Toyota sells in Europe that doesn’t come with a hybrid option. But when the company introduces the next car’s next generation, it may have no combustion engine at all. Toyota Europe CEO Johan Van Zyl says the decision would be motivated by…
The all-electric Subaru will share the Subaru Global Platform with the 2017 Impreza (pictured above) There’s a rumor floating around about the Subaru lineup and it’s electric—boogie woogie woogie. Electric slide references aside, the Japanese brand is looking to introduce a brand-new all-electric model by 2012. According to Automotive News, this potential all-electric Subaru was…
Volkswagen announced that the I.D. Buzz concept, an all-electric vehicle, will be available in US, China, and Europe in 2022 Photo: Volkswagen Simultaneously retro and modern, the Volkswagen I.D. Buzz concept will be making its commercial debut in the US, China, and Europe just five years from now (2022). According to Volkswagen, the all electric…
The impossible has come to pass: the Japanese automaker that had resisted making electric vehicles for so long and had pushed back its diesel engines’ arrival in the US for various reasons has now revealed that it will, in fact, be bringing both an electric vehicle and diesel engines to the US, the former in…
GM CEO Mary Barra at the Frankfurt Motor Show Photo: © General Motors The all-new Opel Astra made its world debut at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show, and it represents the first step in General Motors end-game of becoming the second biggest automaker in Europe by 2022. One of the final steps, it would seem,…
By working together, Nissan Italia, Enel Energia and the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) are bringing electric mobility to Italy in the form of “a pilot corporate electric car sharing project.” Photo: Nissan By working together, Nissan Italia, Enel Energia and the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) are bringing electric mobility to Italy in the…
Honda has taken a step towards making power grids more efficient with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology. Honda has taken a step towards making power grids more efficient with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology, which enables a company to monitor a power grid to determine if it needs additional power sources or power demands that are capable of absorbing…
2018 Honda Clarity Plug-In Hybrid Honda filled out its Clarity lineup in New York today, debuting both the all-new Clarity Plug-in Hybrid and the Clarity Electric, which will soon join the already available Clarity Fuel Cell sedan on the automotive market. The automaker says that it is targeting US sales of 75,000 Clarity vehicles over…
Image: 陳 好酸 Back in March of last year, a government document from the UK was accidentally leaked to the public that pointed to Dyson—the same company that makes the bagless vacuum cleaners and those air blade hand driers—as the recipient of government money to develop its own electric vehicle. At the time, we had…
The green car revolution has been gathering pace in recent years with major countries all around the world starting to embrace alternatively fueled vehicles. This is because motorists are becoming increasingly eco-conscious and manufacturers are now producing fantastic electric cars, but also because of many governments incentivizing the switch and even looking to put electric…
Pictured: 2015 BMW X3 Back in 2013, Popular Mechanics named the BMW X3 crossover SUV one of the “Great Cars for New Families.” The title was an acknowledgement of what the model has become known as–a safe, practical vehicle that’s a lot of fun to drive. Essentially, it’s sporty without being frivolous. It’s no surprise then…
As electric cars are becoming more and more popular, one thing is certain—pretty soon, we are going to need a ton of batteries to power them, which puts out a huge demand for lithium, since currently the most common battery chemistry is a lithium-ion battery pack. However, demand for lithium is only expected to grow,…
San Diego Photo: Pixabay Back in May 2017, California announced that it would soon start testing out an electric car rebate that would be applied to a vehicle’s price tag during the point of purchase. As of January 30th, San Diego has officially launched the new rebate, as John Voelcker with Green Car Reports articulated….
Man, when it comes to supplying the things to make your car go forward, competition is pretty intense. The latest move in the mob jockeying to fuel your ride comes from two parties that are usually enemies—biofuels and the oil industry. Small and Fun: These two competing ideals come together in the new Mazda3 In…
It’s St. Patrick’s Day. You know what this means: green clothes worn to ward off the threat of being pinched by your noisome co-workers, four-leaf clovers everywhere, the sound of the Dropkick Murphys permeating the air, green alcoholic beverages, green food, other green things, green, green, and green. Ford, noted understander of calendar dates and…
When it comes to the next generation of green fuel sources, battery electric vehicles have gotten most of the attention. However, quietly, in the background, hydrogen fuel cells have been in development from multiple sources. Now, two of those major sources are teaming up to make fuel cell vehicles a reality: Hyundai Motor Group and…
StreetScooter Work XL Ford-Werke GmbH and Deutsche Post’s StreetScooter GmbH subsidiary have announced a new partnership that will ultimately result in the creation of battery-electric delivery vans. Production of Ford and StreetScooter’s e-vans is expected to get underway in July, and a minimum of 2,500 vehicles are expected to be put into service by Deutsche…
In recent “Hey, neat!” news, a team at Graz University of Technology has actually built a robot electric car charger. This is the second such system we have heard of — the other being Tesla’s weirdly tentacle-like segmented snake thing. Electric, You Say? Meet the long-range affordable Chevy Bolt EV This new project trumps Tesla’s…
2018 Honda Clarity Plug-In Electric Hybrid Today Honda announced that 152 dealerships across Canada have committed to installing two level 2 electric chargers on-site by the end of the 2017. That number represents nearly two-thirds of the Japanese automaker’s dealer network in the Great White North, and shows the company’s commitment to the electrification of…
California proposes a $200 million incentive program to support electric vehicle buyers after the $7,500 federal tax credit was eliminated, aiming to make EVs more affordable.
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