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…
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