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BMW i3 and i8 Concepts
30th Sept 2011. BMW reveals first fruits of the i Project at Frankfurt 2011.more...
2012 smart fortwo electric drive
29 Sept 2011. Next smart gives better acceleration, top speed and range. more...
GMD announces prototype electric sports car
27th Sept 2011. Gordon Murray Design and Toray Industries announce a prototype electric sports car named Teewave AR.1. more...
New B-Class ‘E-Cell Plus’ Concept
21st Sept 2011. Mercedes debut first electric range extender.more...
Gordon Murray Design T.27 unveiled
6th July 2011. Gordon Murray Design has unveiled the world’s most efficient electric car, the ultra compact city vehicle, T.27.more...
Pure-electric Tata Indica Vista EV
The pure-electric Tata Indica Vista EV is currently trialling in the UK and is competing in the 2010 RAC Future Car Challenge, ahead of launch in 2011. more...
Electric Nissan Leaf is an attractive purchase proposition
Nissan will launch its Leaf in Britain in February 2011. It will live up to being ‘the world’s first affordable, purpose-designed, five seater, all-electric car’. Its... more...
Mercedes-Benz F 800 Style concept car
Mercedes-Benz F 800 Style concept car has fuel cell electric drive combined with plug-in hybrid architecture. more...
Mercedes-Benz B-Class F-CELL
The Mercedes-Benz B-Class F-CELL hydrogen fuel cell car is the world’s first vehicle of its kind to go into production. more...
Daimler expands Smart fortwo electric drive production run
Daimler's first electric car, the Smart fortwo electric drive, is being series-produced for European and North American customers. more...
New Mercedes-Benz all-electric A-Class E-CELL
In autumn 2010 Mercedes-Benz will produce 500 all-electric A-Class E-CELL vehicles for field trials in Europe. This new car is the company’s third electric vehicle to be built... more...
All-electric Citroën Survolt racing car concept
Citroën have developed 160 mph Survolt all-electric racing car concept more...Saab to develop purpose-built electric car
Saab is developing a purpose-built electric vehicle. 70 electric versions of the 9-3 SportWagon will commence field trials in early 2011 with an advanced battery pack targeted at a range of 124 miles.
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Audi e-tron electric car range
Audi e-tron is a series of electric concept cars, each with a different drive technology. The A1-based e-tron will start trialling in mid-2011 with an earliest on-sale date of 2013.
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BMW Megacity
BMW will show its four-seater, electric Megacity supermini at the Paris Show in September 2010. The company has announced that it is the first in a family of rear-wheel-drive, electric and hybrid vehicles with aluminium chassis and carbon fibre reinforced plastic body shells.
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Vauxhall/Opel Ampera - GM's hybrid for Europe
The Opel / Vauxhall Ampera is the European version of the Chevrolet Volt due for launch in 2012. It’s a plug-in series hybrid or as GM call it, an E-REV – Extended-Range Electric Vehicle. The battery range is 40 miles but a petrol engine extends the range to over 300 miles, so lessening ‘range anxiety’. GM will build the car at Ellesmere Port if the Coalition Government provides funding of £30m. more...
Think City
The Think City is a fun, two seater electric runabout available in some European markets now but not,so far, in the UK. It will launch in America in late 2010 ahead of a production plant opening in early 2011. The American venture just might be over-ambituous.
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Gordon Murray Design T.27
British companies Gordon Murray Design and Zytek Automotive are developing a revolutionary electric city car.
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Toyota Auris Hybrid
The Toyota Auris Hybrid is the first full hybrid in the compact family car class. It offers outstanding green credentials at an exceptionally competitive price.
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Land Rover will launch hybrids in 2013 with plug-in electric hybrid ready to go
Land Rover will launch hybrids in 2013 and plug-in hybrid around 2015
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PSA Peugeot Citroen electric/hybrid strategy
PSA Peugeot Citroen will launch electric cars in 2010 followed by diesel hybrids a year later and a PHEV in 2012.
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Fisker Karma
Deliveries of the Fisker Karma to start early in 2011 followed by ‘Project NINA’ family car in 2012.
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Merecedes-Benz BlueZERO range
The Mercedes-Benz BlueZERO concept cars are a range of models each with a different power source.more...
Volkswagen E-Up!
Volkswagen E-Up! all-electric concept car will go into production as three different models branded VW, Seat and Skoda. more...
Renault electric car concepts
Renault-Nissan are investing 200 million euros a year to take leadership of an electric car market they estimate at 20% of the global car market by 2020.more...