Post Tagged with: "electric cars"

Will the Prius be Replaced Soon?

May 22, 2013 6:30 AM0 comments
Will the Prius be Replaced Soon?

From the outside, it looks like sales of the Toyota Prius have never been better. According to WardAuto, they surpassed their 2012 sales goal by 16,000 units, and the rising gas prices since 2011 have caused many buyers to take the plunge and go hybrid. But not everything is smooth [...]

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Is the All-Electric Fiat 500e Really a Road-Worthy Car?

May 21, 2013 6:25 AM2 comments
Is the All-Electric Fiat 500e Really a Road-Worthy Car?

Are you seeking an electric car and don’t know what to do? You’ve got two options, really. Go for a big production model like Nissan Leaf, Chevy Volt, Ford Focus Electric or the coming-this-summer 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV. Or, you go for the one-off model car companies must manufacture to [...]

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Electric Vehicles: Tesla Boasts A Profit For The First Time In Ten Years

May 17, 2013 6:45 AM0 comments
Electric Vehicles: Tesla Boasts A Profit For The First Time In Ten Years

A Win for Cleaner Cars Tesla, the American electric car manufacturer, has been all over the news lately, with its announcement that it has made a quarterly profit for the first time in ten years. In 2011, Tesla reported a loss of $50 million, and in the first quarter of [...]

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Tesla Model S – The Last Word In Green Car Technology

May 15, 2013 6:50 AM0 comments
Tesla Model S – The Last Word In Green Car Technology

Tesla’s Model S has redefined the concept of eco-friendly vehicles. It has set the new benchmark in green technology and is the most practical and stylish electric car in the market. What makes it so unique is the fact that it has an absolutely phenomenal range – a staggering 300 [...]

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The World Wants Leaf: How Nissan’s Leaf is Changing the World One All-Electric Car at a Time

May 14, 2013 6:25 AM0 comments
The World Wants Leaf: How Nissan’s Leaf is Changing the World One All-Electric Car at a Time

What’s the best-selling zero emissions electric vehicle (EV) in the world today at more than 50,000 units sold in 17 countries so far? Nissan Leaf. Yes, the hottest EV on the market and on roads everywhere from Norway to China to Australia to Brazil is Nissan’s award-winning Leaf. Even Nissan [...]

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Inside the Failure of Fisker Automotive

May 10, 2013 6:45 AM3 comments
Inside the Failure of Fisker Automotive

In 2008, Fisker Automotive unveiled the Fisker Karma, a plug-in hybrid luxury sports car that was backed by $200 million in government funding and designed to change the future of green energy and the automotive industry in ways never before seen. Initial orders came in at $100,000 a car. Now, [...]

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2014 Chevrolet Spark Electric Vehicle (EV) Launches This Summer

May 8, 2013 12:00 AM0 comments
2014 Chevrolet Spark Electric Vehicle (EV) Launches This Summer

Chevrolet is launching its 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV (electric vehicle) on the streets of California and Oregon this summer.  What’s so significant about the Spark EV minicar? First off, Chevy’s Spark EV is truly an all-electric vehicle unlike Chevy’s Volt, which has both an electric motor and an internal combustion [...]

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Will The Electric Car Be The Latest Energy Saving Craze?

April 23, 2013 8:30 AM1 comment
Will The Electric Car Be The Latest Energy Saving Craze?

So it was only a short few years ago that we were told we must do everything possible to reduce the amount of energy we are using to conserve the environment following the 2000s energy crisis. In our initial attempts to reduce our own carbon footprint, many ideas were thrown [...]

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Our Favorite Futuristic Green Energies

April 22, 2013 9:15 AM0 comments
Our Favorite Futuristic Green Energies

The Time Lists has released its ‘Top 20 Green Tech Ideas’, and what a list it is. At Decipher CM, we’ve picked our Top 5 favourite futuristic green energies to share with the new breed of technological hippies out there. 1. Biofuels One of the ‘green industries’ best kept secrets [...]

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Hyundai Unveil the World’s First Mass Produced Fuel Cell Vehicle

April 11, 2013 7:18 PM1 comment
Hyundai Unveil the World’s First Mass Produced Fuel Cell Vehicle

Hyundai have sped off the start line in the hydrogen vehicle production race, by rolling the first fuel cell vehicle intended for mass production off of the assembly line. Hyundai have created a version of the ix35 which runs completely on hydrogen, meaning the only by product this car produces [...]

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