electric vehicle development

Who's ready for more EVs? General Electric and Nissan – the manufacturer of the zero-emissions Leaf – have signed a two-year deal to collectively explore ways to promote the widespread adoption of electric vehicles here in the United States and around the globe. Mark Little, director ...

German automaker Audi announced its future investment program that will lead to the company's hiring of nearly 1,200 skilled employees next year and the doling out of approximately 11.6 billion euros ($15.3 billion U.S. at the current exchange rate) between 2011 and 2015. The outlay of cash will ...

Audi has tapped into its deep pocketbooks and constructed a new development and testing center for electric drive systems in Ingolstadt, Germany. This facility is a home away from home for 840 of the automaker's experts who are working on e-mobility. Audi hopes that combining development of ...

Most of the current crop of electric vehicles (EVs) scheduled to hit the market soon are not optimized to apply the full benefits of the electric powertrain. Why's that? Well, many of the existing and upcoming EVs, like the Tesla Roadster, ...

As we've mentioned before, one way to measure the likely market share that electric vehicles (EVs) will capture in the coming years is to look at the actions and predictions of EV suppliers. As EVs hit the streets, essential components must be manufactured at a rate that meets actual demand. ...

Now that the initial excitement over the new Trexa electric vehicle (EV) platform has subsided somewhat, the start-up has decided to issue information that is typically a bit more sobering, the price. In ...