The space frame will reduce weight by 40% and add 10% to the bus’ range, says BYD. The frame removes nearly a ton of weight from the BYD transit bus over the steel frame being used now. The first two buses with the frames were launched in China this week in Changsha City, Hunan Province. [...]
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Japan Enters Ugliest EV Contest With Sim-Lei Design
If we’ve learned anything in the EV world, it’s that low drag coefficients usually mean really, really ugly design characteristics. For some reason, the idea of low drag (think Prius, one of the ugliest production cars in modern times) doesn’t jibe with great looks. On the other hand, both can be screwed up – witness [...]
Electric Muscle Car from EnviroTech
Normally I spent my time here at EVmeme making fun of the goofy designs and (not so) “newsworthy” press releases that automakers and designers like to put out regarding their electric vehicles. Once in a while, though, something comes along that just needs to be shown off because it’s, well, cool. This is one of [...]
Kia Skips Detroit, Goes to Vegas Instead
Where do you debut new electric car concepts in America? Not in Detroit at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), says Kia. Instead, you go to Vegas and showcase them at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES). If anything says that Koreans understand American thinking, this is it. Nobody in Detroit right now really expects [...]
Top Story of 2011
To send off 2011, I thought I would go back and look at the website’s logs for the past year and see what was the most popular story here in 2011. By far, it was Aptera’s closing up shop and the whole lead-up to that. The top story by readership count was Aptera Vaguely Announces [...]
CRK Electric Urban Showermat Lookalike Concept – With Solar!
I personally jump for joy whenever I get another press release or email telling me about the latest in electric concept cars. Concept cars in general fall into two categories: the “This One Might Get Made” and the “Looks Good On the Auto Show Floor, But Never Gonna See Production”. You can usually tell the [...]
Alcoa Designs Aluminum Space Frame Design for BYD Electric Bus
January 27th, 2012 
Meme Infiniti M Hybrid claims crown as fastest accelerating hybrid
January 26th, 2012 Meme In a staged demonstration test, verified by the Guinness World Records last August, the Infiniti M Hybrid apparently outruns a Porsche Panamera Hybrid by a least a length and a half on an Infiniti channel YouTube video.
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FCCC and Enova Offer Green For Free Truck Program
January 26th, 2012 Meme Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp (FCCC) and Enova first debuted their electric walk-in van in March of last year. Since then, the van has sold several units to FedEx, UPS, and several other fleet owners around the nation. Now, to encourage more sales, FCCC and Enova are offering a Green for Free deal. The program works [...]
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How Did Electric Cars Do Last Year?
January 25th, 2012 Meme Despite a less than good week in the press for electric car and hybrid sales last year hint at better image than portrayed in the news.
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Mean Green Hybrid Gets Official World Record for Speed
January 25th, 2012 Meme The Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) has verified Boije Ovebrink’s world record speed run in the Mean Green hybrid truck. The Swedish Automobile Sports Federation awarded Ovebrink with a diploma signifying the June 28th record-setting 152.252km/h in the standing 1,000 meter and 115.347km/h in the standing 500 meter run. The records ad to Ovebink’s earlier [...]
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Should GM kill the Chevy Volt, stand pat, or create the Volt2?
January 24th, 2012 Meme Should GM cave in to the negative PR and politically motivated controversy over the Chevy Volt, or should they move boldly forward with their electric vehicle plans?
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