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Report: Audi A9 EV due in 2024 could be a high-efficiency flagship

Green Car Reports

The new model has the internal codename E6, but could take on the A9 E-Tron name for production, the magazine reported, citing anonymous sources.

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When Will EVs Hit Primetime?

Revenge of the Electric Car

BYD’s all-electric e6 production line at the company’s base in Shenzhen was “ready for manufacturing&# in March, but was only producing the gasoline-powered F6, according to Yang Binbin, who writes for Caixin magazine, a business publication based in Beijing. Chinese green-car subsidies on hold.

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Mainstream media catches green car bug

Green Cars News

The latest example of green cars breaking into the mainstream media comes in the April 27 edition of Fortune Magazine , which features Warren Buffet on the cover in front of a BYD e6 electric car - the company that Buffet has invested in.

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The Soviet-Era, Z80-based Galaksija Dared to Be Different

Cars That Think

Complete plans for the Galaksija were first published in 1983 in an article in the computer magazine Računari u vašoj kući as a joint venture between the Galaksija’s designer, Voja Antonić , and the magazine’s editor, Dejan Ristanović. (An Modern designs typically revolve around the E6 series of ohmic value multipliers —1.0,

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Clean Tech - GigaOM - Salon.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

BYD’s plug-in hybrid F3DM went on sale (for fleet operators) late last year, and it’s supposed to launch its first all-electric model — the E6 — in the second half of 2009. BYD plans to sell its electric E6 and a plug-in hybrid sedan in the U.S.

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Electric Car Watch #10: Tata, Mahindra vs Tesla vs Chinese vs MNC’s

Plug In India

I really get pissed off when auto magazines and mainstream media look at EV sales and then say electric cars are the problem. BYD have started selling the e6 passenger and cargo vans with their blade battery. Electric car sales in India really are pitiful. The real reason EV sales are so low is the game is skewed towards ICE cars.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

REDDIT STUMBLE UPON MYSPACE MIXX IT Paste this link into your favorite RSS desktop reader See all CNNMoney.com RSS FEEDS ( close ) By Marc Gunther Last Updated: April 13, 2009: 9:29 AM ET Warren Buffett with BYDs E6. BYDs breakthrough all-electric E6, photographed at this years Detroit auto show.

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