All Cars Electric

Live in Idaho and Want an Electric Car? You're In For a Long Wait

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:00:00 +0000

If California is the undisputed capital of electric cars in North America, which state is its antithesis? According to the Idaho Business Review, Idaho could be that state, with both the 2012 Chevrolet Volt and 2012 Nissan Leaf unavailable at present. Worse still, Nissan won’t be even making its all-electric Leaf available in the state until...

Is This Audi's All-Electric City E-Tron? We Think So (Video)

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:00:00 +0000

Audi might have not chosen the best name for its new range of all-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, but it certainly knows how to cause a stir in downtown Berlin. Spotted posing for photographs in the center of Berlin earlier this week is what we can only assume is Audi’s City e-tron. Unlike the city cars we’ve seen from rival...

Auto X-Prize Runner Up Clocks Faster Time Than Mini E At Nürburgring (Video)

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:32:00 +0000

It’s almost a year since the Progressive Insurance Automotive X-Prize came to a conclusion, but we’ve heard relatively little from its various winners. Until Now. Enter the Finnish team which came runners up in the Alternative (Side by Side) category with the conventionally-styled Electric Race About (E-RA). While driving south from...

Nissan Goes Toyota One Better With Cooler-Looking Cargo Ship (Video)

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:53:00 +0000

Call it the battle of the clean-car cargo ships. First Toyota retrofitted its Auriga Leader car transporter ship with a diesel hybrid powertrain, allowing some energy to be recaptured in a bank of nickel-metal-hydride batteries just like those used in its Prius and other hybrid cars. That ship got a fair amount of media attention for a category of...

2012 Ford Focus Electric Only Available in NY, CA This Year

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:12:00 +0000

It may have just appeared on The Late Show last week, but Ford’s all-electric 2012 Focus won’t be hitting the streets en masse until spring 2012. At least, that’s what David Finnegan, Electrified Vehicles Marketing Manager at Ford Motor Company has told forum members at myfocuselectric.com. Instead of trying to launch its first...

Would You Pay $4 For 90 Minutes Of Electric Car Charging?

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:45:00 +0000

A few weeks ago we told you that pharmaceuticals giant Walgreens had begun to install Level 2 electric car stations at stores in New York City, Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and Chicago. While the presence of electric car charging stations -- an estimated 800 at Walgreens stores alone -- are a great way of combating perceived range anxiety in...

BMW's UK MINI E Test Ends: Drivers Happy, But...

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:00:00 +0000

A few months after BMW and MINI's electric car study ended in the United States, a similar scheme run in the U.K. has also come to a close, and the results are in... ...and if you've read the results of the American tests, the figures coming from the U.K. will all look very familiar. Basically, all the drivers loved driving the MINI E, as you...

2012 Toyota RAV4 EV To Be Built In Toyota Plant, Not By Tesla

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:33:00 +0000

This much we know already: Tesla Motors will build battery packs and electric drive systems for the upcoming 2012 Toyota RAV4 EV electric crossover. What we didn't know was where that car would be assembled. Would it be the Canadian factory that builds standard gasoline RAV4s for North America, or the cavernous Tesla Motors plant in Fremont...

BYD e6 Electric Crossover Won't Be Here Until Mid-2012

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:45:00 +0000

We’ve known about Chinese firm BYD for some time now. In fact, its all-electric e6 was unveiled before the word Leaf became the name of an electric car. But despite unveiling a car long before many of its rivals, BYD won’t be bringing the e6 to the U.S. until the middle of next year. If the firm’s past reputation is anything to...

Join All Cars Electric As We Move To Green Car Reports Next Week!

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:00:00 +0000

If you’re a regular at All Cars Electric You’ll know that we have a sister site, Green Car Reports. Together, we’ve been covering the latest news in plug-in vehicles and other green cars for quite some time. In the past few years we’ve seen electric cars move from vaporware or golf carts into real, working, production cars...

Nissan Gives First Charging Station To City Visited By Top Gear (BREAKING)

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:46:00 +0000

If you’ve been following the story of what happened when popular British entertainment show Top Gear took a 2011 Nissan Leaf and 2011 Peugeot iOn (nee Mitsubishi i) for a drive to the rural eastern U.K. city of Lincoln, you’ll know that Nissan wasn’t exactly happy with the way its all-electric hatchback was portrayed. But while...

2012 Ford Focus Gives Letterman a Late Show Test-Drive

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:36:00 +0000

You’re the CEO of a global automaker who has just been invited to appear as a guest on the internationally renowned Late Show With David Letterman to talk about your new electric car. But rather than just talk about it, why not bring the car along too? And then let the show’s host drive it across his set. That’s the way Ford CEO...

2012 Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid: Five Things We Hate

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:02:00 +0000

In the past year, we’ve put the 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid through an extensive set of test-drives, resulting in our first drive report, winter test-drive, financial analysis and even a family vacation. With so many miles behind the wheel, our editorial team has already shared our five things we love about Toyota’s first plug-in...

2012 Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid: Five Things We Like

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:54:00 +0000

We’ve now had four chances to put the 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid through its paces, covering everything from fast-moving freeways and inner city streets through to mountain passes and trips to the local Costco. In the end we concluded that for some drivers, Toyota’s 13 mile-per-charge plug-in hybrid could represent a better buy...

Nissan: Leaf's Battery Pack Should Last As Long As The Car

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:30:00 +0000

Nissan’s all-electric Leaf isn’t having a great time of it this week in the mainstream media. Firstly, Nissan had to defend itself against popular British motoring entertainment program Top Gear after it showed the electric hatchback in a less-than favorable light, quoting a battery expert who said the Leaf’s 24 kilowatt hour...