Electric vehicles

Polaris Industries is a quoted US manufacturer of small conventional and pure electric vehicles, mainly nostalgic conventional motorcycles and leisure and industrial off-road small four wheelers.

As the electric vehicle EV industry grows more than five-fold to well over $300 billion in 2024, those e-vehicles not bought primarily on up-front price will continue to dominate.

Tesla Motors has opened its first retail design store in the UK at London's Westfield Shopping Centre in White City, one of the capital's most popular shopping destinations.

DBT-CEV a French solution provider for electric vehicles has developed a charging station that can charge all types of electric vehicles in less than 20 minutes, a huge reduction in time compared to 4 to 8 hours with less powerful stations.

Maxwell Technologies is supplying ultracapacitors to Crosspoint Kinetics to store energy and deliver power in a second-generation parallel electric hybrid drive system for small para-transit bus, shuttle bus and package delivery vehicle applications.

Nissan's BladeGlider is more than a concept, it's both a proposal for the future direction of Nissan electric vehicle (EV) development and an exploratory prototype of an upcoming production vehicle.

The Renault-Nissan Alliance and Mitsubishi Motors will explore several new projects covering shared products, technologies and manufacturing capacity among the automakers.

A new device that may be capable of pumping human waste into the 'engine room' of a self-sustaining robot has been created by a group of researchers.

At Supercapacitors USA in Santa Clara on 21 November, IDTechEx will present on this topic and as part of the INTRASME consortia will explain how the overall electric vehicle industry is being developed in Europe, what is the role of SMEs and present relevant cases of innovation by European SMEs.

The E-fox velomobile is a great eco friendly electric vehicle that is capable of replacing your car. It's more than an electric bike.

New all-electric Type A school buses will hit the road in 2014, due to a collaboration between Trans Tech Bus, and Motiv Power Systems.

Ford Motor Co is recalling 2,618 Focus Electric cars because of potential loss of power to the wheels while driving.

Brammo is an Oregon, USA based electric motorbike manufacturer with high brand awareness in the USA and increasingly more in Europe. The company has kicked off sales in the new segment in 2012. They are planning to design an electric racing car in 2015.

hrysler Group LLC has entered a 5-year, $18.2 million partnership with McMaster University, with funding support from the Canadian government, to develop next-generation, energy-efficient, high-performance electrified powertrains and powertrain components.