Electric : Car News And Reviews

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars worked with a team of students from the March CE Primary School — located adjacent to Rolls-Royce’s home in Goodwood — to design and build a special electric car to compete in the Greenpower IET Formula Goblin race at the Goodwood Motor Circuit.…

The Toyota i-ROAD was first revealed at the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show and the tiny electric vehicle that leans through the corners has just completed the first set of public trials on the streets in and around Tokyo.…

As we previously reported, computer security experts recently gathered at the 2014 SyScan security conference in Beijing and one of the events of this year’s conference was a contest to see if any team could hack into a high-tech Tesla Model S.…

The venerable Nürburgring Nordschleife is where car companies go to prove their worth on the track, with manufacturers competing to set records in each category of vehicle.…

If you fancy yourself a hacker and are going to be attending the 2014 SyScan security conference in Beijing, you might want to try your hand at cracking a Tesla.…

Take a ride along to the top of New Hampshire’s Mount Washington in an electric race car. During the recent Subaru Climb to the Clouds driver Tim O’Neil took Entropy Racing’s whisper quiet EVSR pure electric through the course in nearly  just 7 minutes, 28.92 seconds, the fastest time recorded to date in an electric vehicle.…

Volvo continues to tease consumers with details of its all-new XC90 SUV, recently releasing details on the vehicle’s new interior and technologies and now lifting the hood, so to speak, on the powertrain options for Volvo’s flagship SUV.…

The Renault Twizy is an ultra-compact electric vehicle designed for extreme efficiency and eco-conscious driving. But the vehicle was really designed  for urban usage, running short hauls to and from the office or the grocery store.…

First shown off back in 2010, French automaker Exagon has revealed that its first production car has rolled off the production line. The vehicle is a lightweight carbon composite electric sportscar driven by a pair of electric motors which give it a substantial 400 horsepower.…

While most of the open-air cars we see are designed for racing and off-road use, this one is designed to be a daily driver. The Arcimoto SRK is a pure-electric enclosed frame vehicle that’s designed to provide extraordinary energy efficiency.…

This concept car wasn’t designed by Audi, but rather by three students in the Master in Transportation and Automotive Design program in Politecnico of Milan. Sponsored by Audi, Giacomo Franceschi, Antonio Paglia, and Cem Kayserili worked for 15 months on developing the compact concept car designed to be an all-electric city car that would appeal to buyers in the 18-30 age group.…

Despite being a 887 horsepower supercar, the Porsche 918 Spyder can still cruise in complete silence on short runs. While its hybrid drivetrain was designed to improve performance and fuel efficiency, it also has the side-effect of being completely silent when operating in electric mode.…

BMW’s new ConnectedDrive system is BMW’s newest generation of in-car infotainment systems, providing apps and smartphone integration that essentially turn your car into a smartcar. BMW is showcasing ConnectedDrive’s capabilities in this latest ad for their hybrid sports car, the BMW i8 while also showing just how easy it is to own and operate the plug-in hybrid as a daily driver.…

Audi has announced plans to compete head-to-head in the world of all-electric vehicles, taking on the likes of Tesla and other German automakers, assuming the market for such cars continues to grow.…

The hypercar lineup we’ve been dying to see recently showed up during SuperCar Sunday at the Netherlands’ TT Circuit Assen. In this video shot by gearhead swsthebest1994, he was fortunate enough to capture four incredible vehicles at the same time: The Ferrari LaFerrari, the Koenigsegg Agera R, the Porsche 918 Spyder and the McLaren P1 – each with 900 to 1100 horsepower brimming inside.…