Breaking its own record by nearly 20 seconds. Last year, electric-car startup NIO brought its 1360-hp EP9 supercar to the Nurburgring and set a blistering time of 7:05.00, making it the quickest electric car at the famous circuit. Now, NIO says the EP9 has returned to the ‘Ring and put down an astounding 6:45.90. Uh, […]
Posted on May 13th, 2017 by Henry
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The long-awaited machine has finally arrived. Sort of. Thursday night at the Tesla Design Studio in Hawthrone, CA, Elon Musk revealed the Tesla Model 3 to the world. Promised back in summer of 2014 as a $35,000 EV that would be accessible to far more drivers than could afford previous Teslas, the 3 is here. […]
Posted on April 2nd, 2016 by Henry
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Kia Naimo electric concept makes debut in Seoul Kia added to its electric vehicle concept line-up at the Seoul Motor Show today with the world premiere the Naimo electric crossover utility. Designed as a five-door, four-seater urban runabout, the Naimo is powered by an 80 kW electric motor which Kia says produces maximum torque of […]
Posted on April 4th, 2011 by Henry
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WORLD BEATING ELECTRIC MOTOR CYCLE Definitely one of the crowd favorites at last week’s Future of Electric Vehicles conference was the presentation by Eva Hakkanson and Bill Dube. The highly-entertaining couple, who design and build electric racing motorcycles out of their home garage, have set some impressive records with their KillaCycle drag bike – it […]
Posted on December 18th, 2010 by Henry
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Chip Yates prepares to race his 196-horsepower electric superbike against the gas-guzzlers Chip Yates took a very American approach when he began building an electric superbike to race in the TTXGP and FIM ePower championships. He went for horsepower. One-hundred and ninety-six horsepower, to be precise, with a massive set of battery cells to keep […]
Posted on December 17th, 2010 by Henry
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What’s the Queensland Government doing on Electric Vehicles? Presenter: Nick Weinert Office of Climate Change Listen to Presentation Nick delivered information surrounding the development of the discussion paper “Electric Vehicle Roadmap” Received & published by Henry Sapiecha
Posted on October 12th, 2010 by Henry
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Are we on the right road? Presenter: Steve Spalding RACQ Listen to Presentation Steve raised the following question: “Just how much thought are we giving to our future motoring needs?” After a hundred years or more of cars powered by internal combustion engines using mainly fossil based fuels we now seem to be seeing a […]
Posted on October 12th, 2010 by Henry
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