Electric Vehicles & Hybrids

For those in the market for Tesla’s first SUV, you’ll be happy to know that the company has announced that it will start to ship its first Model X vehicles in early 2015.…

Nissan made motorsport history when its all-electric ZEOD RC completed the first all-electric lap at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Driver Wolfgang Reip was the first winner of Nissan’s Gran Turismo Academy and took the Nissan ZEOD RC racer successfully around the 8.5-mile circuit using only electric power pushing the car’s two 110 kilowatt electric motors.…

South Korean manufacturer Oullim Motors is bringing its Spirra sports car to Europe, but instead of the car’s standard V6 turbocharged engine, it will come with an all-electric powertrain.…

Pikes Peak is one of the most impressive and difficult hill climbs in the U.S., if not in the world. While Mitsubishi has driven the course before in an electric race car, this year they will be bringing a newly upgraded car, dubbed the MiEV Evolution III.…

Another day, another over-the-top concept that you can drive in the PlayStation 3 title Gran Turismo 6. In this case, we’ve got Mitsubishi getting in on the virtual car action, with an alternative fuel crossover that looks way too cool to ever go into production.…

Google has been working on autonomous vehicle technology for several years now, and even has had its self-driving cars on public streets. But up until now, its cars have entirely been based on modified production vehicles.…

Nobuhiro “Monster” Tajima made his way to the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in Colorado Springs in 2013 with an all-electric Monster Sport E-Runner Pikes Peak Special and took home first place the electric vehicle class with a time of 9:46.530 over the 12.42 mile course.…

Newport Convertible Engineering (NCE) is known for taking popular cars and transforming them into drop-tops. The latest vehicle on their chopping block is the Tesla Model S.…

Electric vehicles are clearly here to stay, but even today’s cheapest all-electrics cost nearly $30,000, and most of them cost significantly more. With that in mind, one enterprising student in Nigeria decided to build his own electric car – and this one can run on solar or wind power.…

It may be strange to think of a time when pro race cars won’t use internal combustion engines, but we’re already on the precipice of car races which run entirely on electricity.…

In 1964, Bruce Meyers created the world’s first fiberglass dune buggy, the Meyers Manx, and Meyers Manx has built more than 7,000 dune buggies since then.…

Jay Leno received the first McLaren P1 to be delivered to the United States. McLaren CEO Mike Flewitt dropped by Leno’s garage to talk about creating the new P1 supercar.…

BMW’s DesignworksUSA group is showing off their lightweight concept design for a solar-powered charging carport. We prefer it with the BMW i8 parked inside, but the smaller i3 is also a great car and looks right at home under the canopy.…

Back in January, we had an opportunity to drive the BMW i3, and thought that they really hit the mark with their enigmatic electric vehicle. At the time, the car was available only in Europe, and U.S.…

In this video, Chris Harris of /DRIVE takes the carbon fiber plug-in hybrid BMW i8 for a 24-hour trip around the streets of Los Angeles. The i8 is powered by the combination of a 231hp 1.5-liter turbocharged three-cylinder engine (adapted from the new MINI) and a 96kw electric motor, for a total 362hp.…