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Renault and Opel join the electric camper van party

EV Central

It’s to be fully revealed in showcar form at next month’s IAA Transportation event in Germany, touted as “a mobile shelter for adventurers and sports enthusiasts who love the outdoors.” Based on the Zafira-e Life and due for sale in 2023, there’s a solid 322km WLTP driving range plus sleeping for four.

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8-state alliance releases action plan to put 3.3M ZEVs on their roads by 2025

Green Car Congress

This will include working with the automobile manufacturers and dealers to ensure that all plug-in electric vehicle models are available for sale and aggressively marketed in all MOU states. The plan also calls for establishing consistent codes and standards for ZEV infrastructure through revisions to national and state building codes.

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Conference confirms plug-in fever

Plugs and Cars

Coming on the heels of the Google/Brookings event in Washington, D.C., Plug-in 2008 in San Jose, California witnessed a noon-time address by new heavy-weight convert, Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel. But neither car, GM execs made clear, will appear for sale on a showroom floor for more that two years.

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Update: Top 10 Electric Cars

Clean Fleet Report

Tesla is described as disruptive technology, but in reality the company has done what auto companies have done for a little more than a century—build great cars and match them up with owners who appreciate them. has fully embraced EVs and, after years of teasing with snazzy concepts, the real hardware is for sale–and is selling well.

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Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported

Cars That Think

We just needed to build a device.”. The VPU converts the images to simple patterns of 60 pixels and sends that information to a transmitter on the user’s glasses. Over that time, 36 serious and 152 nonserious “adverse events” were observed. Ringo Chiu/ZUMA Press/Alamy. Of course, it wasn’t that easy. approval in 2013.

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Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

For people looking for the most effective way to end our addiction to oil, PHEVs have made sense because carmakers can build them now, with todays technology and using todays infrastructure. They reinforce the Pacific National Labs January 2007 findings that we wont have to build new power plants for cars that charge at night.

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A 100 m.p.g. truck? A Bright IDEA | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Three years ago, the magazine Popular Mechanics even wrote an article prodding the auto industry for not building the 100 m.p.g. • MORE: "How to Build a 100 Mile-Per-Gallon Car. Now, of course, Bright Automotive is ready to unveil the IDEA, with the expectation it will have 50,000 ready for sale in 2013.

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