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Prince of Monaco test drives the all-electric Venturi Volage

As you know, Monaco wants to position itself as one of the leading EV countries in the world. Of course, the country's small size helps keep range anxiety in check. HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco enjoyed himself during the Grand Prix de Monaco last weekend when the Venturi Volage was in town. The car, which is the result of Venturi's collaboration with Michelin, is an electric sports car that uses Michelin's Active Wheel. Prince Albert II drove the car along the urban circuit set up for the race. [Source: Venturi via Le Blog Auto] ... Read more →

Tesla Roadster races 387 km (240 miles) on a single charge in France, Monaco Xavier Navarro

Not long ago, the guys at Top Gear had the chance to enjoy a Tesla Roadster (sadly, the video of that much-discussed event is no longer available). Two things Jeremy Clarkston and crew criticized ...

Nissan-Renault lands in Monaco with EVs too Sam Abuelsamid

Nissan will be joining Mitsubishi in providing electric vehicles the sunny principality of Monaco. The Nissan-Renault alliance and officials of the Riviera enclave have signed a deal that will see ...

Mitsubishi iMiEV joins the beautiful people, heads to Monaco Sam Abuelsamid

Mitsubishi and Nissan-Renault Alliance seem to be in a see-saw battle to see who can sign up more governments to use and/or support their electric vehicles. The latest round goes to Mitsubishi, ...

Mitsubishi MiEV visits Monaco, readies Euro homologation Xavier Navarro

The little Principality of Monaco is keeping up its role in the media spotlight for their EV efforts. The small country will soon be the location of the first European tests of the all-electric ...

Live in luxury and drive electric: Monaco to have nationwide EV charging network 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

OK, I admit that the term "nationwide" in the headline is a bit grandiose-sounding. After all, the Principality of Monaco is a really small country (just 1.95 km² or 0.76 sq mi). This is like the Vatican being "the first country to fully offset CO2 emissions." In any case, it seems that ...

Bono + Monaco = Tesla in Europe 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

We know that the Tesla Roadster is headed to Europe. Part of getting ready for the European market means doing a little bit of promotion, and so Tesla Motors presented the Roadster at the Top Marques Monaco event this past weekend. Tesla's vice president of sales, marketing, and service, Darryl ...

Venturi improves the about-to-be-launched Fetish 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

April 2008 was the month when Venturi intended to launch the Fetish, a carbon-fiber EV sportscar which makes the Tesla look like a bargain. Instead of offering the car this month, Venturi has instead announced that they have managed to improve the Fetish engine - which now gets 300 HP and 380 Nm of ...

Prince Albert II gets his chance in the BMW Hydrogen 7 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

click to enlarge A lot of green cars have made their way to the EVER MONACO exhibit: the Th!nk City, the Citroën Berlingo Venturi, the Venturi Astrolab and the Citroën C5 Airdream. You don't think BMW would let a chance like this slip by without trotting out the Hydrogen 7, do you? They ...

Venturi Astrolab in Monaco 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Although introduced in the Paris Motor Show in 2006, the Venturi Astrolab was spotted again at the EVER Salon in Monaco (Green Cars Autoshow). The concept, which showed an interesting tandem lightweight (only 280 kg!) architecture, was designed to provide the maximum surface available to recharge ...

Citron C5 Airdream in Monaco 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

As you might know, because of the focus that European countries are putting on CO2 emissions, most marques have created signature labels to certify when a certain vehicle is "clean" in the environmental sense. They basically take the least powerful version of the model, tweak the car ...

Th!nk City Monaco Edition 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

One of the things happening during the EVER Salon of Green Cars in Monaco is a celebration at the "Rallye de Monte Carlo des Vehicules à énergie alternative" (Rally of Montecarlo for alternative energy vehicles) during the event. Th!nk decided that, since they're going to sell their ...

Citron Berlingo Venturi in Monaco 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

French website Leblogauto writers went to the EVER Salon in Monaco and gathered information and pictures from the Citroën Berlingo Venturi, which is one of the two vehicles competing for the French Postal Service (La Poste) contract for suburban delivery EVs. Although the range isn't that ...


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