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Update: Top 10 Electric Cars

Clean Fleet Report

Ford Mustang Mach-E (& F-150 Lightning & E-Transit). Finally, take the company and the country’s best-selling vehicle–the Ford F-150–and recast it as an affordable, capable all-electric work vehicle with higher-end consumer versions also available. since the Tesla roadster was introduced in 2008.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. Weve kept the summary table below generally up-to-date for passenger PHEVs, but not for BEVs, motorcycles or larger vehicles like buses and trucks. First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009. See our frequent comments at our news archive.

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New EV electric car calendar

EV Central

Ford F-150 Lightning – EV version of America’s top-selling large pick-up truck is also the fastest and most powerful. The door to bringing the EV ute to Australia has been prised open with confirmation ICE F-150s are on the way in 2023. Ford has also confirmed the smaller Transit Custom to go EV.

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GM on the brink…

Revenge of the Electric Car

November 8, 2008. DETROIT — The rapidly deteriorating finances of General Motors are forcing the federal government to decide whether to bail out the largest American automaker or face the prospect that it might go bankrupt. But a bankruptcy by G.M. Here is the full text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link].

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

" In other words, General Motors is going to lose its shirt until the Volt establishes itself in the marketplace. General Motors has sought $10.3 Posted by: Bob F | Apr 13, 2009 9:42:47 PM Despite factual errors and oversights in this article, you still make an excellent point. 150 miles is fine more.

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