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I have bad Karma (ha) when it comes to choosing favorites. Every electric car or EV I’ve chosen as a favorite turns out to be a pile of crap and soon goes out of business. I first noticed this in July of 2010. At that point, I’d already doomed the Aptera to a dismal fate …
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Indiana bet big on becoming the mecca of electric vehicle production in the U.S. The state and several counties and cities within it spent millions in incentives to get electric car makers, manufacturers, etc. into the state. One of those was Think, a Norwegian company with a long, rocky history of financial woes, that hoped …
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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 …
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by Don Bain, TorqueNews The iconic Tesla Roadster, the first fully electric production automobile on the market when it came out in 2008, will be updated with significant improvements offered only in Europe, Asia and Australia – presumably in right-side steering models – while the limited supply lasts. Read the rest at this link.
by Aaron Turpen, TorqueNews Remember when you were a kid riding in the back of your family station wagon, facing the wrong way and making faces at the cars behind you? Well, engineers at Tesla Motors do and they’ve thrown in an optional third row of rear-facing kiddie seats in the Model S. Read more …
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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 …
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