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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

The 3rd Taiwan International Electric Vehicles Show earlier this month highlighted zero-emissions vehicles from around the world. A unique prototype shown in Taiwan was the VOI concept scooter designed as part of Project VOI. This two-seat scooter was designed by more than 100 designers and engineers at the Technical University [...]

The automobile of the future will need to focus on the needs of urban drivers including smaller frames, better handling and higher fuel economy. Toyota’s European Design & Development (ED2) team took a swing at urban vehicle design with the recently presented ME.WE concept EV. This two-door compact EV was [...]

The automotive world has overlooked startups outside of Japan, North America and Western Europe in recent history. This oversight is rooted in sluggish economic development in Eastern Europe, Africa, South Asia and Latin America through the late 20th century. We can no longer ignore these regions as sources of vehicle [...]

Businessman and car lover Oliver Kuttner created Edison2 in 2007 to produce cutting-edge vehicles. Kuttner brought together top designers and engineers from around the world to develop the Very Light Car (VLC), an unconventional gas-powered model that achieved fuel efficiency equal to 110 miles per gallon. The VLC won the [...]

Congestion charging, or congestion pricing, is the practice of charging users of goods and services (transportation, electricity, telephones, etc.) higher prices during periods of excess demand. The theory behind congestion charging is that the higher prices will manage demand without having to increase supply. A handful of major urban areas [...]

The search for a lightweight, inexpensive means of moving around cities led Andrew Doroshkov and Ilya Shorstov to develop the Zero Emission Individual Transport (ZEIT) Eco. Doroshkov and Shorstov focused on a scooter that could bear a rider’s weight while covering enough distance for daily errands. The ZEIT Eco was [...]