The folks at PlugInCars.com spoke with Fred Diaz, president and CEO of Chrysler’s stand-alone truck division, Ram, recently, and they were told that truckers simply aren’t interested in hybrids, and that once it has met the obligation to its government-funded program, the company will not be producing any more hybrid trucks. Here is the rest [...]
China has become more and more serious in its efforts to clean up its roads and its air over the last several months, and now, the president of one of the country’s biggest auto companies has revealed plans to have 10 million EV-ready parking spots in just over eight years. In a conference this week [...]
Automotive News is reporting today that French intelligence agencies are looking into a possible Chinese connection into possible industrial espionage with regards to the flagship electric car designs at Renault. Eric Besson, the French Industry Minister, spoke earlier this week of a case that felt much like “economic warfare,” but said that no official inquiry [...]
There are two new players in the American electric car market. According to Automotive News, both Azure Dynamics Corp and Think Global AS are bringing EVs to the United States. The two carmakers are following close on the heels of Nissan and Chevrolet, whose all-electric Leaf and electric plug-in Volt, respectively, saw their first customers [...]
Reuters shared yesterday that roughly 650,000 Toyota Prius models with a coolant pump defect that could cause overheating and power loss will be repaired at the company’s expense. The repair campaign is for those cars from model years 2004-2007, and over half of them – roughly 378,000 – are in the United States. Evidently, the [...]