Revenge of the Electric Car
MARCH 18, 2010
It won Green Car Journal’s 2010 Green Car Vision Award recently, for satisfying all the needs of a modern driver, whilst at the same time producing zero localised emissions and requiring no petrol. Nissan is committed to new fuel efficient green cars, expecting the market to fill 10 per cent of the auto industry by 2020.
Baua Electric
JANUARY 17, 2024
Currently, hybrid cars in India that use a petrol engine and an electric motor combined with an electric battery pack are slapped with as high as a 43 per cent tax, while pure petrol cars see a 48 per cent tax. The Japanese automaker has been claiming that hybrid cars reduce carbon emissions compared to petrol ones.
EV Central
DECEMBER 10, 2024
While many members of the local auto industry want the exemption – which applies to vehicles priced under the luxury car tax purchased on a novated lease to be extended, it now seems a forlorn hope. But there are also SUVs, led by the new petrol-electric BYD Sealion 6, which have helped boost interest in PHEV technology.
Plug In Partners
DECEMBER 14, 2007
To this end, Toshiba is working on a high-performance version of the SCiB targeted at the automotive industry. M eanwhile in the United States, General Motors has launched what it calls the auto industry's first design studio focused exclusively on electric plug-in vehicles.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
There is a continual drive within the auto industry for low carbon vehicle technologies. SR technology not only eliminates the need for permanent magnets made from increasingly difficult to obtain rare earth materials, but also is uniquely well suited for electrical boosting and energy recovery in downsized petrol and diesel engines.
Revenge of the Electric Car
OCTOBER 24, 2011
Below is an interview with Director Chris Paine and Journalist Robert Steadman with UK-based Blue and Green Tomorrow : ROB: Was it difficult to gain behind the scenes access to the auto industry after the first film? We knew we were vulnerable to car industry PR efforts and they knew they couldn't control what we did editorially.
EV Central
JANUARY 28, 2025
The local commitment to PHEV reflects a global swing back to hybrids across the auto industry as the rate of EV adoption slows. I think you will get a lot of that group who are traditionally petrol that now go you know what I do need some middle ground before I go full electric, but how long that lasts we do not know,” he said.
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