Ten-Day 100% Electric Show At L'atelier RenaultSEE ALSO:"> EV-Motoring - Electric Vehicle News Specs and ReviewsBOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, FRANCE – November 2, 2009: L’Atelier Renault on the Champs-Elysées is presenting a special exhibition dedicated to electric vehicles starting on Friday November 6. For the first time in France, the four electric concept cars that preview Renault's range...
Skoda Auto Shows Quarter Three ProfitMILTON KEYNES, UNITED KINGDOM – November 2, 2009: Škoda Auto has delivered 6.5% more vehicles to its customers from July through September 2009 than it did over the same period of 2008 - 174,984 versus 164,258 last year.The Czech Republic´s largest car manufacturer delivered 504,625 cars to its customers from January through September 2009. Škoda’s...
Two months ago Renault introduced several EV concepts at the FrankfurtMotorShow . Among the concepts was the first unveiling of a vehicle called the Renault Zoe ZE. This vehicle, perhaps one of the most radically designed vehicles displayed by Renault, will be in production form by 2012. Renault has released additional images of the ...
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Peugeot Peugeot BB1 concept goes to the London Eye - click above for high-res image gallery Peugeot has sent its BB1 electric car concept to British capital for a weekend visit. The BB1 was unveiled at the FrankfurtMotorShow in September as a tiny lithium ion-powered city car. The concept uses a pair of rear hub motors for propulsion and Peugeot...
Output and torque diagrams, BMW ActiveHybrid X6. Click to enlarge. BMW has provided some additional detail on its two-mode ActiveHybrid X6, as well as updating some of the figures released for the introduction of the production model at the Frankfurt...
Apparently, Nissan's partner Renault wasn't kidding when it said that it would go ahead and produce the four all-electric concept models that it displayed at the FrankfurtMotorShow in September. Today, the French automaker not only (re)confirmed production of the futuristic looking Twizy Z.E. city car (for Zero Emission) and the funky Zoe Z.E....
Wish that the new 2011 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG looked more like the old Gullwing? Well, ever since the launch of the SLS AMG at the 2009 FrankfurtMotorShow, the folks at Gullwing-America have been working on their own version of the new Stuttgart supercar – the Gullwing 300SL Panamericana. After seeing the new 2011 SLS [...]
Renault has decided to produce its future zero-emission electric city car at its Flins plant in the Paris region. The Zoé ZE Concept, shown at the Frankfurtmotorshow, is a forerunner of this new vehicle.
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Renault Renault Twizzy ZE concept - click above for high-res image gallery Renault announced today that its Valladolid, Spain plant will become the home of a new electric vehicle based on the Twizy Z.E. concept that was show at the FrankfurtMotorShow in September. The Twizy is a peculiar looking two-seat city vehicle and it will be probably change...
Peugeot have launched in London the BB1 electric car concept that seats four people in a vehicle just 2.5 meters long. The BB1 was originally launched at the FrankfurtMotorShow and is now being promoted as a concept in a number of cities around the World. I asked Peugeot’s Managing Director, Jon Goodman, about the [...] Related posts: Audi Calamari concept car brings futurama...
Filed under: Hybrid , Rolls Royce 2011 Rolls-Royce Ghost - Click above for high-res image gallery Rolls-Royce unveiled the production version of its new "smaller" car, the Ghost, at the FrankfurtMotorShow and it goes into production next year. AutoCar is now reporting that the Rolls engineers are working on a hybrid version of the Ghost using BMW's mild hybrid system....
The Flins plant in the Paris region will be the new home of Renault’s zero emission electric city car the Zoe ZE Concept. The vehicle, which was initially unveiled at the FrankfurtMotorShow, is an urban, versatile model that is expected to account for two thirds of the company’s electric vehicle sales in Europe. France will [...]
Renault will produce its future zero-emission electric city car at the Flins plant in the Paris region. Zoé Z.E. Concept, presented at the FrankfurtMotorShow (earlier post), is a forerunner of this new vehicle. The Zoé Z.E. Concept. Click...
The recent FrankfurtMotorShow revealed the European automotive industry's firm commitment to electric vehicles. Europe has a high proportion of diesel cars, however European automakers are developing a mix of hybrid and fully electric car technologies as they strive to cut emissions from new vehicles by 18 percent within six years. Hybrid models will be a bridge technology as...