It appears that the California based EV vehicle company is about to branch out into the world of the SUV. Known for the Karma, Fisker has been working hard to increase their presence in the automotive market and sees a great opportunity to jump to the highly sought after SUV demographic. The SUV would most [...]
Back at the 2008 SEMA show Protean, then known as PML Flightlink, debuted an all EV F-150 to the crowds. The difference between that specimen and the EV’s found on the road now, are that each wheel is powered by its own electric motor and not by a central plant. In a truck the environment [...]
SEMA just concluded last week and now the LA Auto Show is quickly approaching promising that manufacturers will be bringing out even more tricks that they’ve been hiding up their sleeves and will see what reactions they get from the general public now that they may have gotten some industry specific feedback from SEMA. Well, [...]
It seems like just last week Toyota and Tesla announced that two test mules existed that Toyota was evaluating for standards compliance. Well, now they’ve announced that indeed they do and they will be partnering on an electric RAV4. Tesla is apparently hard at work designing the electrical systems on this new RAV4. This is [...]
Taking the leads of Ford and GM lately, Nissan has broke ground on a 1.3 million square foot battery manufacturing facility in Smyrna, Tennessee. The batteries built in this plant will be to support the manufacture of the Nissan Leaf by pumping out some 200,000 lithium-ion batteries per year. Nissan estimates the creation of up [...]
The company that brought us the Hummer and put up with tons of negative press over their gas-guzzling vehicles has revealed their softer side to the public. AM General has won a contract to do final assembly on Ford’s Transit Connect Electric work van. The electric Transit Connect will be among the first commercially available [...]
