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Two-Way Charger For Nissan Leaf Means Your Home Can Be Charged By Your Car

Nissan’s pokey little electric Leaf car will be able to power your home in the case of a blackout, via a new two-way charging system called Leaf to Home, an idea that originated from March’s Fukushima disaster.

August 2, 2011
Cars

Evatran Brings Wireless Charging To Cars

Until another alternative energy form come around, electric cars are the wave of the future. To make them easy to charge, Evatran has developed a wireless charging system.

August 1, 2011
Cars

BMW’s i8 Electric Supercar Looks Like Sex On Wheels

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Wow, and I thought the Tesla Roadster was a good looking electric ride. We’ve seen sneaky spy shots of BMW’s carbon-fibre/aluminium plug-in hybrid before, but it’s now taken centre stage in Germany. Slated for a 2014 release, the i8 has an electric-only range of 34km at the moment, but its 220 horsepower petrol engine will hit 100kph in under 5 seconds. Oh, and it’ll include a similarly-Tron-esque dashboard display and mobile app. Pics and video!

July 24, 2011
Cars

Electric Car Charging Spreads Across US

Electric cars may not be the vehicle du jour of U.S. roads just yet, but that hasn’t stopped their respective filling stations from spreading out like a negatively charged virus.

May 27, 2011
Cars

Crazy Geniuses Charge Electric Car By Towing With Ute

Nissan’s all-electric Leaf has given its owners freedom from petrol while presenting new challenges for avoiding dead batteries. Leave it to the Dutch to discover how to freeload a charge with a ute and a tow hook.

May 10, 2011
Cars

San Francisco Is Giving Away Free Charges To Electric Cars

San Francisco, you lovely place you. The city by the bay is installing at least 90 new charging stations in city-owned parking garages for electric vehicles to juice up… for free.

May 9, 2011
Cars

Hybrid Car This Beautiful Will Cost You $US1.1m

Our brothers at Jalopnik have some good news if you were eyeing up last year’s C-X75 concept hybrid car from Jaguar: it’s being put into production! Now some bad news: it will cost $US1.1 million.

May 4, 2011
Cars

Chevy Sells More Volts In Six Months Than Tesla Sells Roadsters Ever

Tesla Motors, hailed by all as the saviour of the planet, has been selling the all-electric Roadster model since 2008. Three-and-a-half years later, the automaker reports it has sold “more than 1500″ of the electric-powered two-seaters.

April 25, 2011
Cars

Is That An Electric Scooter In Your Trunk Or Are You Just Happy…

Oh, I see. Ahem. It’s just a scooter.

March 20, 2011
Cars

Crash Test Tesla Model S Alpha Hints At Electric Sports Sedans To Come

The orange beauty here is one of the crash test cars that Tesla will send into a wall at some future date to judge the car’s impact worthiness. It’s also an indication of what’s next from the electric car company.

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