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 [...]
Ford’s forthcoming C-Max Energi wins 2012 Green Car Vision Award
January 28th, 2012 
Meme BAE Systems and Caterpillar Developing HybriDrive Systems for Trucks
January 28th, 2012 Meme BAE Systems and Caterpillar are teaming up to build parallel hybrid systems for heavy-duty trucks using BAE’s HybriDrive System. The deal has BAE merging the Cat CX family of transmissions into their parallel HybriDrive propulsion system. This will establish a sales outlet as well as aftermarket field services model to leverage the global reach of [...]
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Toyota TES-ERA Sports EV Concept revealed
January 27th, 2012 Meme At a small auto show venue in Japan, the Toyota Engineering Society unveiled a new crowd-sourced concept electric car called the TES-ERA Sports EV Concept based on its popular 1990s Sera two-door coupe.
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Alcoa Designs Aluminum Space Frame Design for BYD Electric Bus
January 27th, 2012 Meme 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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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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